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[2012.201.B0051.0184]

Description: Military plane crash landing at Tinker Air Force Base. Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Plane Flies Here for Crash Landing. A Tennessee Air National Guard C-97 transport crash landed at Tinker Air Force Base Tuesday. The six-man crew scrambled safely out of the plane after it stopped skidding along one of the field`s secondary runways. Maj. John L. Wade, 38, Murfreesboro, Tenn., commanded the plane that landed on the runway, partially covered… more
Date: August 9, 1961
Creator: Gumm, John
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[2012.201.B0051.0185]

Description: Officials approaching a military plane to find out what when wrong. Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "WHY? Military Air Transport Service Wednesday wanted to know why this C-97 had landing gear troubles Tuesday threatening the lives of the six-man crew. The pilot executed what the Air Force called "a beautiful landing" in spite of the difficulty. The crew walked away unharmed. Tinker`s crash crews had spread foam on the runways in an attempt t… more
Date: August 9, 1961
Creator: Gumm, John
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[2012.201.B0308.0085]

Description: Photograph is of a man in a baseball uniform leaning over looking at a baseball in his hand while another set of hands is gesturing two circles next to each other. Caption: "Bobby Howard, left, whose third straight single broke up the first game of the Oklahoma City-San Antonio doubleheader here Sunday night in favor of the Indians, gives pitcher Bart DiMaggio the no-hit, no-run signs after the latter beat the Missions 1-0 in the eighth inning of what was scheduled to be a seven-inning opener."
Date: August 14, 1955
Creator: Miller, Joe
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[2012.201.B0358.0044]

Description: Photograph is of a man wearing a naval uniform standing in front of a black car shining the front headlight. Caption: "Seaman J. E. Emerson polishes up the new automobile he won on a dollar investment."
Date: August 18, 1950
Creator: Killian, Thomas F.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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