Dance at the
Great Bend, Kansas Auditorium 
-Ray Hoffman 

Great Bend Train Station, Photo Reconnaissance, Leaving for Siapan - Richard Bauman

Barracks, Great Bend Army Air Field
- Kansas State Historical Society

Mess-hall Great Bend Army Air Field  -Kansas State Historical Society

1946, Smokey Hill
Army Air Field Control Tower
-Kansas State Historical Society

Colonel Micky Axton of the Jayhawk Squadron of the Confederate
Air Force standing behind
Captain Jim Fryer, Commander
of the B-1 Bomber Squadron at McConnel Air Base as he was flying FiFi, the only flying B-29 bomber.

Pilot of "Deacon's Disciples", trained at GBAAF. Became Commanding Officer of 678 Bomb Squadron, flew the first film footage of Japanese surrender in Tokyo Bay back to Washington D.C.

Robert M. Robbins,
Boeing Experimental Test Pilot,
with the #1 XB-29

 

Crew of the Enola Gay

For more information contact:
B-29 Memorial Plaza
245 NE 30 Rd
Great Bend, KS 67530
(620) 792-9251