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Cold War Scrapbook (in PDF format)
As it appeared in the August 2011 issue of Air Force Magazine.
Air Force Magazine received too many images to run them all in the print magazine, but its staff prepared an online supplement—Cold War Scrapbook II—to showcase these additional images featuring AFA members during the Cold War.
Cold War Scrapbook II (in PDF format)
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