AIRCRAFT > FIGHTERS > F-84 > ALONG THE ANCIENT, MEDIEVAL AND MODERN APPIAN WAY, NEAR ROME
Title:
ALONG THE ANCIENT, MEDIEVAL AND MODERN APPIAN WAY, NEAR ROME
Artists:
George Bales
Categories:
AIRCRAFT >> FIGHTERS >> F-84
SUBJECTS >> OTHER SUBJECTS >> Europe
Catalog Number:
1954.074
Location:
4C844
Description:
F-84s from Ciampino Airfield, near Rome, flash across the Italian sky. Below them, gaunt remnants of a 2,000 year old aqueduct and a farm family plowing with a yoke of oxen form a pastoral setting that has changed little since the Middle Ages. These are Italian Air Force jets flown by Italian pilots, who were trained by U.S. airmen at Craig Air Force Base near Selma, Alabama. Jets, oxen and aqueducts are all under the same summer sky. Paul, the Apostle, walked the Appian Way and saw these same aqueducts supply water to Rome.