This candid 1946 photograph, part of a collection documenting Keesler Field and a visit by a senior general (likely General Eisenhower), captures an airman peering over a large external aircraft fuel tank stenciled with a routine maintenance reminder: 'Check for Security of Mounting Prior to Each Flight.' Small, unposed moments like this offer insight into the everyday maintenance discipline that kept post-war U.S. Army Air Forces aircraft flight-ready. Project: 218397