An elderly man leans forward to watch a toddler at a coffee table covered in wooden blocks, in a bright modern living room. The photograph is filed with the papers of Lt Col Mel Swanson, who took command of the 56th Special Operations Wing's Operating Location Alpha Alpha A-1 Skyraider detachment at Da Nang on 15 June 1970, and whose November 1970 flight records survive in this same collection. Photographs of veterans in later life - grandchildren, living rooms, ordinary afternoons - are a deliberate and valuable part of the record, showing the long peacetime lives that followed the missions. Project: 219122