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Receiving wings

Submitted by:

  • LaVone Kay

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  • Photo courtesy U.S. Air Force Historical Research Agency, Maxwell AFB, Alabama

1949 15th April – AFS Ambala , receiving wings from Air Marshal Sir Ronald Ivelaw-Chapman

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