The American flag still stands after a fierce tornado swept through Oklahoma and the outskirts of Tinker Air Force Base. Said to be Oklahoma's worst tornado in 17 years, it was categorized by meteorologists as F-5 using the Fujita-Pearson scale and destroyed nearly 2,000 homes and damaged 7,000 others. This photograph was used in the article "Real-life Twister," from the September 1999 AIRMAN Magazine
Summary
The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Base: Tinker Air Force Base
State: Oklahoma (OK)
Country: United States Of America (USA)
Scene Camera Operator: SSGT Angela Stafford, USAF
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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Date
01/09/1999
Location
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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