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Aerial view of Mitchel Field looking northwest. Runways are in middleground; parts of Hempstead Village and Uniondale are south of Hempstead Turnpike in the foreground, at left; parts of Hofstra University campus in middleground, at left;…

Aerial view of Mitchel Field, looking north. Runways in the middleground; Hofstra University campus in middleground, at left; parts of Hempstead Village and Uniondale appear south of Hempstead Turnpike in middle and foreground.

View of a section of framework of an unidentified house built during the eighteenth century. Annotation on the verso refers to how framework was joined and marked with Roman numerals.

Old Quaker Meeting House built in 1694.

Unidentified windmill behind a tree and building with a picket fence in front of it.

Wreckage of a P-47 Thunderbolt alongside the house of Eunice and Bernard Fixler (Hofstra University Class of 1941). Hempstead and Mitchel Field fire department members are behind the plane, at left; a crowd of people is gathered at right.…

Wreckage of a P-47 Thunderbolt (covered in fire extinguishing foam) in between the houses of Eunice and Bernard Fixler (Hofstra University Class of 1941) and Mr. and Mrs. Walter R. Briggs. A firefighter is standing by the Fixler house, at center. …

The house of Eunice and Bernard Fixler (Hofstra University Class of 1941) and that of Mr. and Mrs. Walter R. Briggs after a P-47 thunderbolt crashed into them. The tail of the air plane is sticking out between the two houses.

The plane, which was…

Men standing in the remains of the home of Eunice and Bernard Fixler (Hofstra University Class of 1941) after a P-47 Thunderbolt crashed into it.

Shortly after takeoff from Mitchel Field, the P-47, which was piloted by 1st Lt. Daniel R.A. Duncan,…

Exterior front view of the home of Eunice and Bernard Fixler (Hofstra University Class of 1941).

The home was destroyed when a P-47 Thunderbolt crashed into it and the house next door on November 17, 1945. The pilot, 1st Lt. Daniel R.A. Duncan,…