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Description
Three F-106s take off from the runway past a radar unit at Loring Air Force Base in Limestone in 1981. The base was about to change from a foreward nuclear counterattack station to a conventional warfare center with B-52s that could carry conventional bombs instead of nuclear warheads.
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About This Item
- Title: F-106s, Loring Air Force Base, Limestone, 1981
- Creator: UPI
- Creation Date: 1981-07-22
- Subject Date: 1981-07-22
- Location: Limestone, Aroostook County, ME
- Media: Photographic print
- Dimensions: 25 cm x 20 cm
- Local Code: Coll. 1880, Box 5/1
- Collection: United Press International collection
- Object Type: Image
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- Air bases--Maine
- Delta Dart (Jet fighter plane)--Photographs
- Jet planes--Maine--Limestone
- Loring Air Force Base (Limestone, Me.)--Photographs
- Military bases--Maine
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