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Friday, January 07, 2022

MEN OF MAINTENANCE: SOUTHEAST ASIA

 This 1960s color film produced by the United States Air Force offers a look at aircraft maintenance procedures and the often overlooked men who performed them during the Vietnam War era, using documentary footage and informal, macho narration to highlight the unique appeal and responsibility of what was once disparagingly known as the “grease monkey” profession, in a plea for respectability.

VIDEO HERE  (15:05 minutes)