Thursday, July 3, 2008

TINKER AIR FORCE BASE - MIDWEST CITY

These photos were taken this afternoon at the Charles B. Hall Memorial Air Park at Tinker Air Force Base in Midwest City OK. Note the AWACS plane in the background of the next to last photo.
The Air Park is named for one of the Tuskegee Airmen. Major Hall was the first African-American to down an enemy aircraft, in July 1943.

The planes in these photos (left to right, top to bottom) are:

B-47 Stratojet; F-104 Starfighter
C-135 Stratolifter; C-47 Skytrain
B-52 Stratofortress; B-52 Stratofortress
B-29 Superfortress; B-1B Lancer
B-52 Stratofortress; E-3 Sentry (AWACS)



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