A Mustang fighter aircraft releases two external fuel tanks. One is seen nearly vertical behind and below, the second one released has just separated from the aircraft.
- Date
- c. 1951
- Archive
- U.S. National Archives (via Wikimedia Commons)
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- photograph
- Original size
- 3,000 × 2,403 pixels
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