Re: Unplanned Upgrade

On 7/8/2025 12:58 PM, Jim Wilkins wrote:

  "Jim Wilkins"  wrote in message news:104jt0c$3o9ss$1@dont-email.me...
 "Bob La Londe"  wrote in message news:104js3j$3nthl$1@dont-email.me...
 My dad had a buddy
named Paul Drudge who ran a refrigeration business out of Gila Bend (55
miles away) who would come out, and he taught my dad a lot, but when
Paul retired we were on our own.  Nobody wanted to drive 68 miles (from
Yuma) to service a country grocery store.
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 Were you somewhere around Mohawk, Dateland or Kofa?
 https://www.aircraftarchaeology.com/b50superfortress.html
"Boeing B-50A Superfortress, #46-020, crashed on March 23, 1950, north of the small desert towns of Hyder and Dateland in southwestern Arizona"
 

They could have been trying to make the landing field at Dateland.  Just north of the freeway (I8) is that big training base runway I talked about in another post.  If its the same plane they were two miles north of the runway when they hit.  I wonder if their names are on the monument north of the rail road tracks about 9-10 miles from there.
There is a small pyramid monument in the desert north of the Gila River, and North of the "north line" railroad tracks that has a plaque with the names of soldiers who died training in that area during WWII.
Desert training including aircraft, tank corp, and infantry were conducted in that area.  Near the air field just a few hundred feet from Ave 64E going north from I8 is a place we all called "the bunker."  It was a wood, concrete and dirt structure used for sighting in the machine guns on airplanes while tied down to the pad in front of the opening.
https://tripbucket.com/dreams/dream/visit-camp-horn-monument-dateland-arizona/
I thought I recalled more names than that on the monument.  I'll have to run out there and look again sometime.
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Bob La Londe
CNC Molds N Stuff
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