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DimensionsOverall: 7 3/4 x 9 1/2 in. (19.7 x 24.1 cm)
Accession Number 2025.328
Classificationsphotograph
ProvenanceJeff Perry; Des Moines Art Center [gift from the previous, 2025]
Student Pilots: Warrant officer candidates Donald Jacoby, left, and Michael Honara carry their bags towards a waiting helicopter at the end of field duty near Fort Rucker, Alabama. They are both scheduled to go out to Vietnam to serve as helicopter pilots within a few weeks, after finishing training and graduating from the Army Aviation School at Fort Rucker. The Indochina war has made the wings of the helicopter pilot a status symbol that has eclipsed the Green Beret. And the Army says it has no shortage of young men who want to become pilots, March 1971
Image Not Available for Student Pilots: Warrant officer candidates Donald Jacoby, left, and Michael Honara carry their bags towards a waiting helicopter at the end of field duty near Fort Rucker, Alabama. They are both scheduled to go out to Vietnam to serve as helicopter pilots within a few weeks, after finishing training and graduating from the Army Aviation School at Fort Rucker. The Indochina war has made the wings of the helicopter pilot a status symbol that has eclipsed the Green Beret. And the Army says it has no shortage of young men who want to become pilots, March 1971
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Thomas Loraine McKenney
James Hall
after Charles Bird King
1836
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Thomas Loraine McKenney
James Hall
after Charles Bird King
1836