Submitting Campus

Daytona Beach

Department

Office of the Chancellor

Document Type

Article

Publication/Presentation Date

7-1973

Abstract/Description

Some history of the military air base, Pyote (Texas), and its mission after World War II to store and preserve surplus military aircraft. Two famous airplanes were stored there: the Enola Gay, the B-29 used to drop the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, and the Swoose, the sole surviving B-17D from the Pacific theater during World War II. Both aircraft are now housed at the Smithsonian.

Publication Title

TAC Attack

Publisher

United States Department of Defense

Additional Information

Dr. Brady was not affiliated with Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University at the time this article was published.

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Aviation Commons

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