This snapshot captures a line of large four-engine military aircraft of the Boeing B-29/B-50/C-97 family parked on an airfield ramp during the early Cold War era. The handwritten "Africa" notation, together with the album's references to Hickam Field, the Azores, and England, points to a stop along one of the long transatlantic and transglobal air-ferry routes flown by U.S. military transport aircraft in the years following World War II, when island and coastal airfields such as those in the Azores and North Africa served as vital refueling links between the Americas, Europe, and beyond. Project: 218522