Take A Flight On A B-17!

B-17's were used to train B-29 Crews in WW II at Pratt Army Air Field.
What does it feel like to fly in a B-17?
Find out by viewing the "Wings of Freedom" video.

The "B-29 Story"

From The Great Bend Tribune:

Telling the story

By DALE HOGG dhogg@gbtribune.com

n Historians are on a mission to save key World War II landmarks

From an extensive network of Army Air Corps bases scattered throughout Kansas, Nebraska and elsewhere in America’s heartland, young pilots set off on training missions in the formidable World War II warbird, the B-29.

These airmen, some young enough to have never driven a car, learned the skills necessary to fly the beast-like bombers in combat with the goal of bringing Germany and Japan to their knees.

Meanwhile, near the myriad air fields, the influx of servicemen and civilian base personnel altered the faces of small towns like Great Bend and Pratt.

Now, 60 years later, as this generation passes and the massive hangars that once housed the planes and other structures fall prey to Mother Nature and passing years, a new corps of warriors has embarked on a new mission.

Their target: Save at least the hangars before the memories of that conflict’s impact on the prairie slip into the dusty folds of time...

Read the rest of the story.

Oil Field Memories - 1952 (part 2)

(Pratt Kansas 1952)

Oil Field Memories - 1952

Found on YOUTUBE:
"...8mm video of oil field work at Pratt Kansas around 1952. The Dart truck doing the heavy work was found 5 years ago in a junkyard and is currently under going restoration"