Goodfellow Air Force Base
Author | : Michael A. Ward |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 84 |
Release | : 1991* |
Genre | : Air bases, American |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Michael A. Ward |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 84 |
Release | : 1991* |
Genre | : Air bases, American |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Dr. John V. Garrett and CMSgt. Tom Nurre (Ret.) |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 1 |
Release | : 2020-01-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1467104345 |
Goodfellow Air Force Base is one of the oldest installations in the US Air Force. It was the first of scores of flying training fields established across Texas and Oklahoma during World War II. What qualified San Angelo as the site for the first of the new fields did not, for the most part, distinguish it much from its neighbors. The clear skies and flat, forgiving terrain so desirable in the training of pilots were regional qualities. But San Angelo also had Bob Carr, a former military aviator who spearheaded a local effort to provide land, an important railroad spur, and key utility connections if the new pilot school were built nearby. Over the next eight decades, nurtured by a special relationship between city and base, Goodfellow has distinguished itself by training more than 400,000 pilots, intelligence operators, and firefighters for all the armed forces of the United States.
Author | : Dr. John V. Garrett |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 215 |
Release | : 2020-01-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1439668760 |
Goodfellow Air Force Base is one of the oldest installations in the US Air Force. It was the first of scores of flying training fields established across Texas and Oklahoma during World War II. What qualified San Angelo as the site for the first of the new fields did not, for the most part, distinguish it much from its neighbors. The clear skies and flat, forgiving terrain so desirable in the training of pilots were regional qualities. But San Angelo also had Bob Carr, a former military aviator who spearheaded a local effort to provide land, an important railroad spur, and key utility connections if the new pilot school were built nearby. Over the next eight decades, nurtured by a special relationship between city and base, Goodfellow has distinguished itself by training more than 400,000 pilots, intelligence operators, and firefighters for all the armed forces of the United States.
Author | : John Craig Ferguson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 178 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Air bases |
ISBN | : |
Author | : United States. Air Force. Air Training Command |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1949 |
Genre | : Aeronautics, Military |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Ann Crossley |
Publisher | : Abi Press |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780962622816 |
Author | : Karl D. Hoover |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 80 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Air bases |
ISBN | : |
Author | : James M. Davis |
Publisher | : University of North Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1574412094 |
James "Jim" Davis piloted a B-24, as part of the 8th Air Force, on nearly thirty missions in the European Theatre during World War II. He flew support missions for Operations Cobra and Market Garden and numerous bombing missions over occupied Europe in the summer and fall of 1944, attacking enemy airfields, airplane factories, railroad marshalling yards, ship yards, oil refineries, and chemical plants. While he and his crew survived without serious injuries, they witnessed the destruction of many of their friends' planes and experienced serious damage to their own plane on several occasions.
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Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1955 |
Genre | : Aeronautics, Military |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Virginia Noelke |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780738584768 |
Soon after the Civil War, the city of San Angelo developed around Fort Concho. The mission of this western fort was to protect transportation routes, travelers, and settlers as they moved into territory claimed by Native Americans; and the mission of San Angelo was to make money by providing goods that the military personnel wanted and needed. After Fort Concho created peace in West Texas, it ceased operations. By 1889, however, San Angelo had plenty of dedicated citizens who would create an important western city on the banks of the Concho River. Agriculture was the basis of the economy in early San Angelo, which became a financial and marketing center for a wide region of West Texas. This book presents fascinating photographs that highlight the early history of a frontier town. The story ends in the late 1920s, when the discovery of oil changed the area dramatically.