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
Scholarly Commons Citation
Brady, T. (1973). Between Pyosis and Pyralidan. TAC Attack, 13(). Retrieved from https://commons.erau.edu/publication/482
Additional Information
Dr. Brady was not affiliated with Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University at the time this article was published.