The bottle on the ramp. A young airman drinks champagne straight from the bottle at Da Nang while two flight-suited comrades look on laughing - the standard U.S. Air Force welcome for a pilot back from a milestone sortie, whether a first combat mission, a hundredth, or the last flight of a tour. Behind them the crew bus waits with its door open. Ritual celebrations like this one were photographed constantly, and the resulting snapshots form some of the most human material in any veteran's collection. From the Larry Warren A-1 Skyraider files in the Don Engebretsen collection, associated with the Air Force Skyraider detachment at Da Nang. Project: 219104