Museum object · Photographs and Still Images
Photograph of Chief Anderson, General "Chappie" James, Jr., and Daniel James III
August 1955
Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States, North and Central America
Source catalog description
This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.
A black and white photograph of Charles A. "Chief” Anderson with General Daniel "Chappie" James, Jr. and his son, Daniel James III, in front of a United States Airforce plane at Otis Air National Guard Base. Both James, Jr. and Anderson, pictured left and right respectively, are wearing fighter pilot uniforms and flight helmets with visors and masks. Behind them is a fighter plane with the partial text [US AIR FO] visible on the side of the plane. In the top left corner of the image is James III, standing in the open cockpit. He is wearing a white tee-shirt with a diamond-shaped graphic on the front. The date is printed on the left edge of the photograph, in the border. The border edge on the bottom of the photograph has been cropped. The back of the photograph is blank.
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Catalog reference: 2015.57.2
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