| This photo was given to me by another collector. I'm hoping someone can put a year on it. |
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
Clyde Beatty #2
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11 comments:
I believe this photo was taken at his winterquarters in Deming, New Mexico around the time "Ring of Fear" was filmed. Early to mid-1950s, if this helps.
Erik Jaeger
The quonset type buildings in back would lead me to believe this was in Deming qtrs. I visited there once coming back from Calif. and kind of recall that set up.
While this scene does not appear in "Ring of Fear," the photo was used as a still for the 1954 release.
The Quonset huts at Deming were left-overs from the B-52 base that functioned on the property during WW II.
Good God, Dave, I never knew we flew B-52s during WWII. You're always coming up with some previously undisclosed info. Be very careful, however, that the State Secrets group from the CIA (or is it the AFL-CIO) doesn't pay you a vist some evening..... Lane
Lane: I got this from a Deming website which says, "During World War II, bombardiers trained in B-52 bombers at our Army Air Base."
One of the names of Deming Army Air Field was "Army Air Forces Bombardier School" and probably a number of bombers were used in this training.
The B-52 reference cited above may be in error.
Dave: Obviously, I was pulling your leg about the States Secret group asking you about your info on the B-52. My guess is the Deming web site you logged onto probably meant the B-25, the Mitchell bomber. I did a lot of Googling on both models and entered into a world of nostalgia. The B-25 was manufactured from 1937-45, and Deming was an Army Air Force training base, as you stated. The B-52 made its maiden flight in 1951, according to info posted on Wikipedia. (Funny that the history didn't mention Clyde Beatty Circus being wintered there.)
After WWII the B-25's were declared surplus and put up for private purchase.
My first and only time I flew in a B-25 was 1965, when an old Boeing test pilot who was working for Texas industrialist R.G. LeTorneau flew me from Longview, Texas, to a small town in Mississippi. The plane was being used on weekends to ferry the industrialist around the country to do lay preaching in Baptist churches. (Instead of tithing the customary10 percent of his income to the church, LeTourneau reportedly tithed 90 percent, which may account for his being taken into bankrupcy TWICE. You may recall that LeTourneau used to build the biggest earth-moving equipment on the planet. An Wall Street Journal reporter interviewing the old man in the late 1960s asked LeTourneau how many men he had working for him.
"About half of them," the industrialist replied. And that was the lead paragraph on the front-page story.
How did I ever get on this subject?
Damn, I knew I shouldn't have taken my memory pills today...
Lane
Lane: I went back and tried to find that Deming site and they must have changed the wording as I don't see the B-52 mentioned.
Deming Air Base started out as Camp Cody during the Pancho Villa raids, then continued into WW I and finally in WW II became a school for bombardiers.
My first flight was in 1947 in a DC-3 also called a C-47 during the War.
I'd take memory pills too but I keep forgetting them.
There are three early symptoms of Alzhiemers. Memory loss and I forget the other two.
That's too true to be funny.
We spend most of our time trying to remember someone's name.
Then when we think of it, we can't remember why we needed to know it.
ole whitey and Lane
WIKIPEDIA - The Boeing B-52 Stratofortress is a long-range, subsonic, turbojet, strategic bomber flown by the United States Air Force (USAF) since 1955.
Beginning with the successful contract bid on 5 June 1946, the B-52 went through several designs, from a straight wing aircraft powered by six turboprop engines, to the final prototype, YB-52, which first flew on 15 April 1952.
Strategic bomber
Manufacturer Boeing
Maiden flight 15 April 1952
Introduction February 1955
Built to carry nuclear weapons for Cold War era deterrence missions, the B-52 Stratofortress replaced the Convair B-36. Although a veteran of a number of wars, the Stratofortress dropped only conventional munitions in actual combat. .
Do any of you know what a transposition is???
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