Haven't seen this USAF photo in years and it just appears on Twitter.
I took this photo in 1983 at Misawa, Japan when I was a photographer in the USAF. The 18th TFW from Okinawa deployed up there with then brand-new F-15c's in response to the KAL007 shoot-down. All of the aircraft were armed with live 4x Sparrows, 4x Sidewinders, gun ammo and 3 bags of gas. The pilots and maintenance guys were on alert duty in tents a few hundred yards to the left. They would respond several times to Soviet aircraft shadowing search efforts for the KAL007 debris.
This is probably a first or second-generation dupe on Kodak 5071 dupe film. Maybe slide copied one more time by someone over the years, hence the bad highlights. Add what looks to be poor film scanning for more blown-out highlights and exaggerated film grain (effectively scanning in detail of the emulsion surface). The original was shot on Kodak Ektachrome (200 I think) with a Nikon F-2....in the pouring rain. The USAF Security Policeman was kind enough to stand out there to add some scale to the photo.
(USAF photo)
I have a few dozen 35mm 5071 dupes of this deployment taken over several days. Just haven't found the time to scan them in.
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