Blast From The Past – December 10, 1982 – SSGT James Norton, a pararescueman from the 67th Aerospace Rescue and Recovery Squadron, and a “downed” pilot are hoisted aboard an HH-53 Super Jolly helicopter during pararescue training at Mildenhall AB, United Kingdom. – USAF Photo by SSgt. James R. Pearson
September 21, 2019 – The John A. Chambliss “TAG 80” sits next to L&N 1593 (Southern 4501) during a photo charter to the depot in Chickamauga, Georgia. Southern 4501, was all dressed up as L&N 1593, during the L&N Historical Society weekend at the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum (TVRM) at Chattanooga, TN.
Blast From The Past – Early 1990 – This is a photo of me in the high mountains of Tibet, China on a photo assignment to cover the airlifting of a Sikorsky Helicopter by way of a USAF C-5 Aircraft. I took a Polaroid Instant Camera with me and used it to take pictures of the local residents.
Here I had just photographed a group of kids and they were all clamoring for the picture. Can’t recall which one got this picture, but I did a bunch more till all the film was gone. The kids thought it was magic to watch the photo develop before their eyes, as did many of the other folks!
This was my second and final trip to China before I retired from the Air Force.
September 22, 2019 – Norfolk Southern 1206 leads a early morning mixed freight across the Tenbridge, over the Tennessee River, as it heads south on the CNO&TP Third District at Chattanooga, Tennessee.