B-36 bomber
- Title
- B-36 bomber
- Creator
- General Dynamics Corporation. Convair Division
- Institution
- TCU
- Link
- https://repository.tcu.edu/handle/116099117/53158
- Description
- Photo of a B-36 airplane. On reverse: "FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The city of Fort Worth, the Convair plant, and Carswell Air Force Base make an appropriate background for a B-36 intercontinental bomber in flight. For many years, this was a familiar sight to people of Fort Worth, to employees of Convair, who built and tested all of the B-36's in the Strategic Air Command, and to personnel at Carswell Air Force Base, where the first B-36 was delivered and where two wings of the mighty bombers were based. This scene will be repeated for the last time on February 12, 1959, as the last B-36 from SAC flies in salute over the city while on its way to retirement and decommissioning at Amon Carter Field, Fort Worth, Texas."
- Date
- 1954-08-14
- Decade
- 1950s
- Subjects
- Aviation
- Convair
- United States Air Force
- Source
- Box 234, B-36 memorial, 1959 Folder, Item 004
- Type
- Document
- Formats
- 10x8.25 Photo
- Rights
- Prior written permission from TCU Special Collections required to use any document or photograph