The Snapshots in Time Collection
Video Still of Aviator in Aircraft Canopy, NAS Kaneohe Bay Collection - Joseph Smith Interview Materials
Captured from archival footage associated with an oral history interview of Joseph Smith, this frame shows an aviator peering out from an aircraft's canopy at Naval Air Station Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii, a key patrol aviation base in the Pacific during WWII and the Korean War era. Though degraded by decades of analog film and video transfer, the image preserves a fleeting, personal glimpse of naval aircrew life at Kaneohe. Project: 218016