B-36 bomber

Photo of a B-36 airplane. On reverse: "FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE This scene, which took place August 14, 1954, is scheduled to be repeated in reverse on February 12, 1959. The occasion in 1954 was the delivery to the Air Force of the last B-36 intercontinental bomber produced at the Fort Worth plant of Convair Division of General Dynamics Corporation. The reversal comes on February 12 when the Air Force plans to return this same bomber to Amon Carter Field, Fort Worth, Texas, where it will be decommissioned and retired from service. The huge bomber will remain at Amon Carter Field, permanently installed near the terminal building, where it will be maintained as a memorial by members of Convair's Management Club.

B-36 bomber

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.

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B-36 bomber

Photo of a B-36 airplane. On reverse: "FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Taking off from General Dynamics Corporation's Convair-Fort Worth plant on August 14, 1954, was the last globe-spanning B-36 intercontinental bomber to come off the production line. This same bomber is scheduled to return to Fort Worth on February 12, 1959, to be decommissioned from service as the last B-36 of the Air Force's Strategic Air Command. Following the decommissioning, the aircraft will remain at Amon Carter Field in Fort Worth, Texas, as a memorial to the many citizens and Air Force personnel of the city who had a part in the plane's development.