Kirkpatrick and Bale Oil Rig
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Caption on the photograph: "Kirkpatrick & Bale (John E. Kirkpatrick and Herbert E. Bale) Rig #1 being assembled on the M. B. Blake #1 near Pampa, Texas in November of 1945. This picture was taken by me at the first raising of the mast marking the start of my career in the oil business. Ira Walker was the Tool Pusher. The Flag on the crown block came off of the U.S.S. Arizona sunk at Pearl Harbor, 7 December 1941. The switch from 5 years at sea in the South Pacific to a Panhandle winter on a dri…
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Date:
November 1945
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Kirkpatrick Family Archive