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C-82 flying boxcar planes being loaded with hay for snowbound starving sheep and cattle in eastern Nevada


Title	C-82 flying boxcar planes being loaded with hay for snowbound starving sheep and cattle in eastern Nevada
Photo Number	P1989-51-630
Photographer	Olsen, Edward A.
Image Date	1949
Summary/Description	Part of the flight of seventeen C-82 flying boxcar planes which were today loaded with hay here to be flown to eastern Nevada where some 200, 000 head of cattle and sheep are snowboaund and starving. Planes are from McChord Field, Washington, and each holds about four tons of hay. Loading was done by volunteer help at Fallon airbase. Fallon, Nevada. January 25, 1949 [caption].
Keywords	hay hay trucks cars airplanes trucks snow
Location	Fallon (Nev.) Churchill County Nevada
Electronic Publisher	Special Collections Department, University of Nevada, Reno Library
Ordering and Permissions Information	Not to be reproduced without permission. To purchase copies of images and/or obtain permission information, please see http://www.knowledgecenter.unr.edu/specoll/photos.html

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