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| craig matous Port Rrichey, Florida |  when did Detachment 9 shut down? the Det. was for missile support and ARRS still looking for Dan Greenwood Lowell Tash and Brian Devaney 03/29/2009 @ 02:34 [ref: 8764] |
| Frank Bruni Port Angeles,, Washington | I check this site from time to time and I see that it has been visited several times since my initial posting a couple of years back. Curiosity got the best of me this past fall when on my way home I stopped for a day or so at Whiteman. With B2 being the dominate aircraft there I did expect to see a different base, and I was not disappointed. To start with every building that most of us knew, lived and worked in, gone, save maybe three or four of them. The post chapel, the swimming pool and the ball field behind it and the big hanger are all that are left. I think the steam plant has been modified as the old pipes are now gone. The new PDXS and Commissary are now part of a court yard shopping complex. As for our modern day counterparts, they live in the lap of luxury and as I understand it, eat better. The B47 that was once the Knob Noster gate guard, now sits behind where the NCO club was located. The two lane hiway to Sedalia, now a freeway. Warrensburg all grown up and Knob Noster, well, time sort of stood still. The cafe is now a chinese resturant, the infamous bank a store of some sort and the road that leads to what was the Knob Noster gate, wider and the trees are gone. That gate is open during the week days only. The main gate comes in from the Warrensburg side. The Missouri ANG is now becoming a major player in the B2 program and the A10s are flown by the AFR guys and gals. If any of you have a hankering and or curiosity like me to see this place many years later, the hotel is excellent, and inexpensive, and the trip down memory lane, worth it. 10/26/2008 @ 08:50 [ref: 8483] |
| milan , Ontario | Hello, somebody has three side wiev of Latham 47/II - the airplane was used by Roald Amundsen fot his last journey to find the crew of Nobile´s Italia, thanks Milan 12/25/2007 @ 04:22 [ref: 6624] |
| S/SGT JOHN J GITNEY NEWARK, Delaware | I WAS A CREW CHIEF ON THE B47 1953 -1957 340 TH BOMB WING 488 TH BOMB SQ. WHITEMAN AFB. MISSOURI # 50-025 WHEN I ARRIVED AT WHITEMAN MY FIRST DUTY WAS TO DISMANTLE A METAL GRATE LANDING STRIP USED FOR GLIDERS THE BARRICKS WERE WORLD WAR 2 LOOOKING FOR MEMBERS FOR A REUNION PHONE # 302 453 8844 03/08/2007 @ 18:18 [ref: 5719] |
| Frank Bruni Port Angeles,, Washington | In looking at a web site some time ago regarding the final disposition of B-47s, good old Tripple Nickle went to B47 heaven. Landing gear issues were not the only problem that thing had. I remember it flew sort of funny, had a tendancy to land one wing low and took forever to get off the ground. All these years later, I believe that airplane was possessed. 02/08/2007 @ 12:28 [ref: 5604] |
| James C Taylor , Florida | what ever happen to that 47 with the tail number 555. always had that gear that hung up in the air but worked great on the ground jacked up 06/27/2006 @ 06:34 [ref: 5093] |
| James C Taylor , Florida | responding to frank bruni articleat whitmen afb i to was there the day that b-47 burnt 06/27/2006 @ 06:30 [ref: 5092] |
| Frank Bruni , Washington | I was assigned to the 340th F.M.S. from 10/61 to 8/63 and was probably the last man processed out of the 340th BW when the 351st S.M.W. took over. During my tour of duty I helped recover a B-58 wreck and sadly a B-47 that burned at H2 in May of 62. The B-47 now on display was originally from OCAMA and named the Oklahoma Sooner. I was in the paint shop at the time and had a hand in repainting it and moving it. 02/02/2006 @ 20:46 [ref: 4764] |
| Francis E. Nolan , New Jersey | Worked in control tower at Sedalia AFB from December 1954 to January 1956 when I was discharged. Great memories of the beautiful B-47's (with JATO) and the lumbering KC-97s and the long, long flights of those B-47 crews. Loved that little town of Knobnoster!! 04/12/2005 @ 22:50 [ref: 3977] |
| Jim Garland Ten Mile, Tennessee | Stationed at Whiteman AFB 340th Bomb Wing FMS Ground Power hanger 04/60 to 12/61 when I left for the Goose. Arrived at WAFB on a sunday night for clearing in monday morning fresh and green from tech school at Chanute AFB. At 4a.m. monday morning, they blew those klaxtons for an ORI. I had no idea what was going on, just that people were runninto the flight line and I was terrified ! I didn't know any better, I thought we were at war. 03/01/2005 @ 14:10 [ref: 3863] |
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