Staff Sergeant (SSGT) Caroline Peters (front), USAF, and Technical Sergeant (TSGT) Dwyane Watson, USAF, 48th Equipment Maintenance Squadron (EMS), Structural Maintenance Flight, 48th Fighter Wing (FW), RAF Lakenheath, United Kingdom, dress the edges of the newly applied "Lets Roll" nose art on the 48th Fighter Wing`s (FW) F-15E Strike Eagle lead aircraft. "Lets Roll," the now famous phrase United Airlines Flight 93 passenger Todd Beamer uttered as he and fellow passengers foiled terrorist hijackers, bringing down the aircraft in a Pennsylvania field that fatal morning. The nose art is applied to the 48th FWs lead aircraft as a tribute to the victims and heroes of the September 11th attacks
Summary
The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Base: RAF Lakenheath
State: East Anglia
Country: England / Great Britain (ENG)
Scene Major Command Shown: USAFE
Scene Camera Operator: SRA James L. Harper Jr., USAF
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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Date
08/03/2002
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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