The Don Englebreston Collection

Underwing Ordnance/Practice Dispenser Pods on Large Jet Aircraft with Ground Power Unit, Rainy Flight Line

Underwing Ordnance/Practice Dispenser Pods on Large Jet Aircraft with Ground Power Unit, Rainy Flight Line

A yellow ground power unit sits beneath the wing of a large jet bomber during routine flight-line servicing, its cable snaking across the rain-soaked ramp. Ground crews like this kept aircraft mission-ready around the clock, regardless of weather, at Air Force bases during the Vietnam War era. Project: 218950