- Collection:
- Mighty Eighth Air Force Collection
- Title:
- Brigadier General Asa N. Duncan
- Date of Original:
- 1942
- Subject:
- United States. Army Air Forces--Officers
United States. Army Air Forces--Uniforms
United States. Army Air Forces. Air Force, 8th--History
United States. Army Air Forces. Air Force, 8th--History--World War, 1939-1945
World War, 1939-1945
Generals
Armed Forces--Officers
United States. Army Air Forces. Air Force, 8th--History--Pictorial works
United States. Air Force. Air Force, 8th
United States. Air Force--History
United States. Air Force--History--World War, 1939-1945 - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Chatham County, Savannah, 32.08354, -81.09983
- Medium:
- photographs
black-and-white photographs - Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jp2
- Description:
- A photograph of Brigadier General Asa North Duncan, the first commander of the United States Eighth Air Force, seated at his desk while in uniform, looking through a stack of papers. Brigadier General Duncan was killed in action on November 17, 1942 while on a flight aboard a B-17 traveling from the United Kingdom to Gibraltar.
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/m8af_m8afc_2016-0096-0012
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/m8af_m8afc_2016-0096-0012#item
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/m8af_m8afc_2016-0096-0012/presentation/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 9.5 x 8 in. ; 2 pages
- Holding Institution:
- National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force
- Rights:
-
