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Images
of historical interest and content related to Clark Airborne
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The
following historical photographs and comments (in
parenthesis & in color)
were submitted by Darrel Smoker (unless otherwise indicated), images and original captions
courtesy of the National Archives.
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(above) A grader at work at the Myitkyina air strip. It was from
this strip that Capt. Allred and his fellow-pilots of the 10th Air
Force took off to blast hell out of the Japs at the town of
Myitkyina, less than an air mile away. It was also the kind of
strip that you wouldn't have driven your car over at the speed of
30 miles an hour, not if you wanted to preserve your car (Burma).
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(above, left)
Myitkyina Strip Invasion - The Airborne Engineers prepare the
Myitkyina Air Base in Burma, which was captured by Merrill's
Marauders and Chinese troops, for the landing of the 1st Troop
Carrier Squadron. The cooperation of these troops with the
fighter-planes made a strategic base for the capture of the city.
Pictured is a small caterpillar tractor tied securely inside a
glider. Shingbwyang, Burma. 17 May 1944. (Note
fire extinguisher mounted below seat.)
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Glider-landing Aviation Engineers haul
their glider off the Myitkyina Airstrip during the attack in which
our troops took the airfield from the Japanese.
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A LaTourneau grader being pulled by a
tractor of the Airborne Engineers attached to the 1st Air Commando
Force at Tamu, Burma. (Misidentified
LaPlant Choate CAB)
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Burma - Smashed gliders at
"Broadway" - invasion Field X, the morning after the
night landing.
(There is a
winged insignia on grill of Clark.)
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Freak glider crash at Broadway Field,
Burma, on 5-6 March 44. Tractor, carried in glider, was shot out
upon landing without injuring personal.
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Clarkair field test: Early test
pictures from Clark archives.
(image courtesy of Joe Swelnis)
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Clark
Trailer as tried for the Corp of Engineers
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Winter Weiss two-wheel tilting type
Clarkair Tractor Trailer
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Tilting type Clarkair Tractor Trailer
showing two front turnbuckles in place when trailer is empty
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Tilting type Clarkair Tractor trailer
showing turnbuckle method of attaching tractor to trailer
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Showing method of tilting trailer in preparation
for loading tractor
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Clark
becoming a trailer with it own stub axels.
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Ripper attachment for Clarkair Trail
Tractor manufactured by La Plante Choate Co.
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Root blade for Clarkair.
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Angle blade for the Mountain
divisions.
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Westover Field
trials of airborne equipment.
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