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C-130's at Pope AFB, NC. paint schemes for the respective forces, bottom to top, USAFNG, RCAF, RAAF And IAF. 8.12.1987

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CH-53E Super Stallions from the USS Wasp prepare to refuel from a KC-130 Hercules

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Gunner in a CH-146 Griffon escort variation of Huey during Operation Presence - Gao, Mali - 7.25.2018

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Curtiss P-40E / P-40F Warhawks And P-51B / P-51D Mustangs. Nose Artwork at the Warhawk Air Museum in Nampa, ID

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F-15 in desert camo over the Arizona desert.

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30 MM Round And GAU-8/A 30 MM Gatling Gun

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A passel of hogs.

(A group of hogs is called a passel or team.)

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A-10 Alaskan Camo Scheme

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This is the GFU-6/E or 'The Dragon'. Feeds the 30mm round into the GAU-8.

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Sloppin' the 'Hog."

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Rough day at the office.

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F-4G Phantom II, A-10A Thunderbolt II And RF-4C 39-MC Phantom II. Above Ramstein Air Base, Germany. 1987

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Rough day at the office.

Nothing a little tape won’t fix. 

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“Puff the Tragic Wagon” Guntruck, 88th Transportation Company - Camp Radcliff - An Khe - 1966

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A-10 Thunderbolt - After Deployment In Syria And Iraq - Hog With A History

From what I can tell and search, the symbols should represent Maverick missiles and Hydra rockets below the two tanks on the upper left, 2000 lb GPS-guided bombs on the lower left (GBU-31), 500 lb GPS-guided or laser/GPS-guided bombs to the right (the GBU-38 and GBU-54 look almost identical), and 500 lb laser-guided bombs to their right (GBU-12). On the lower right are maybe 30mm cannon symbols? This A-10 seems to have been carrying the new APKWS conversion for the Hydra, and there have been other reports of it being rushed into service against ISIS. That A-10 was also carrying all three types of 500 lb bomb (GBU-12/38/54) to have a range of guidance options.

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A YF-12 Oxcart, the precursor to the SR-71 and 3 SR-71 Blackbirds. The 3rd SR-71 is carrying a High Speed D-21 Drone.

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Space Shuttle Discovery gliding to NASA-KSC - 11.27.2009 - STS-129 - Escorted by a pair of F-16 Falcons.

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On 15 August 1961, 19-year-old Hans Conrad Schumann, an East German soldier, was sent to the corner of Ruppiner Strasse and Bernauer Strasse to guard the Berlin Wall on its third day of construction. At that time and place, the wall was only a single coil of concertina wire. From the other side, West Germans shouted to him, "Komm' rüber!" ("Come over!"), and a police car pulled up to wait for him.

Schumann jumped over the barbed wire while dropping his PPSh-41 submachine gun and was promptly driven away from the scene by the West Berlin police. West German photographer Peter Leibing photographed Schumann's escape. This photograph, entitled "Leap into Freedom," has since become an iconic image of the Cold War era and featured at the beginning of the 1982 Disney film Night Crossing. The scene, including Schumann's preparations, was also filmed on 16-mm film from the same perspective by camera man Dieter Hoffmann.

Schumann went from West Berlin into West Germany, where he settled in Bavaria  In 1962, he met and married Kunigunde Gunda in Günzburg. They had a son the next year. He took up a new job at a winery and eventually at the Audi car assembly factory in Ingolstadt, where he worked for nearly 30 years.

After the fall of the Berlin Wall Schumann said, "Only since 9 November 1989 [the date of the fall] have I felt truly free." Even so, he continued to feel more at home in Bavaria than in his birthplace, citing old frictions with his former colleagues, and was even hesitant to visit his parents and siblings in Saxony.

On 20 June 1998, suffering from depression, he committed suicide, hanging himself in his orchard near the town of Kipfenberg in Upper Bavaria. His body was found by his wife a few hours later.

In May 2011, the photograph of Schumann's "leap into freedom" was inducted into the UNESCO Memory of the World programme as part of a collection of documents on the fall of the Berlin Wall.

A sculpture called Mauerspringer ("Walljumper") by Florian and Michael Brauer and Edward Anders can be seen close to the site of the defection, but has since been moved to the side of a building on Brunnenstraße, several meters south of Bernauer Straße.