Red tags hang from three AGM-86B air-launched cruise missiles before they are loaded onto a B-52G Stratofortress aircraft during an operational readiness inspection by the Strategic Air Command Inspector General Team

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The original finding aid described this photograph as:

Base: Barksdale Air Force Base

State: Louisiana (LA)

Country: United States Of America (USA)

Scene Camera Operator: Staff Sgt. Phil Schmitten

Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

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Date

01/12/1986

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Location

32.50186, -93.65714

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The U.S. National Archives

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https://catalog.archives.gov/

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