United States and Chinese airmen at Bergstrom Field, Austin, Texas July 1946. The Neo-Classical building is the Texas State Capital at Austin, Texas and Austin Texas is noted on the graduate’s diploma “Bergstrom Field, Austin, Texas”. At this time the 349th Troop Carrier Group was based at Bergstrom and assigned to the Third Air Force, Tactical Air Command as noted on the diploma. Also “Air Force Combat Units of World War II” Edited by Maurer Maurer states this unit trained Chinese crews to operate C-46 aircraft. Film is very interesting in that it visually shows the transition from “Army brown to Air Force Blue” for the C-46s still carry the I TROOP CARRIER COMMAND insigne on the nose, with was disbanded on 4 Nov 1945 but they have the new AAF wide "Buzz Numbers" for all aircraft operating solely within the continental USA, by T.O. 07-1-1 of November 1945 and the graduate’s diploma is notating the new post-war air force type command reorganization of March 1946.
A tornado and floods result in damage in Texas, United States. Damaged houses due to the tornado in Fort Worth. Damaged roof of a house. Wooden structures on the ground. In Panhandle cars submerged in water after the floods hit the city. Water flows on the streets. A car passes through a flooded street. A water puddle in a field. Water gushes at great speed.
A beer drinking offer for Schepps Beer at the Texan Hotel in Dallas, Texas, 1935. Sign out front of the building says "Look! All the Schepps beer you can drink. 60 cents per hour." . A man drinks beer at the bar where for 60 cents he may have as much beer as he can consume in 60 minutes. Several men use straws to drink beer from a pitcher at the same time. Men and women drink beer from huge mugs and salt their beer before drinking it. A group of men and women raise their mugs in toast as they congregate around a woman playing a piano. From a 25 year retrospective in a newsreel dated July 14, 1960. (Note: Schepps Brewing Co. was founded in Dallas in 1934, and sold in 1935. In 1939, it became Time Brewing, Inc. and subsequently Dallas-Fort Worth Brewing Co. 1940-51.)
Two service men of USAF standing on left wing of Convair B-36, a strategic bomber of the 7th Bomb Wing, Strategic Air Command (SAC) at Carswell Air Force Base, Fort Worth, Texas. One of the two airmen washes down top section of wing using a high pressure hose. Maintenance stands erected around the tail section of the B-36. The aircraft's Triangle J tail code visible. Ground crew secures cover of a camera compartment in bottom of fuselage.
Engines of B-36, a strategic bomber of USAF Strategic Air Command, get started one after another. Four airmen beneath wing of Convair B-36 on fire guard duty. Propellers turning and plane starts taxiing out of parking area at Carswell Air Force Base, Fort Worth, Texas. Two other Convair B-36 parked on the left and right sides of taxiing aircraft. View of B-36 in flight
View of tail section and right wing from backside of Convair B-36, a strategic bomber of USAF Strategic Air Command (SAC) at Carswell Air Force Base, Fort Worth, Texas. Another view of tail section, left engine and left wing of Convair B-36. Several other B-36 air planes and hangar building in background. View of nose section of a B-36 . One crew man walking into bomb-bay of the plane and the other walking across top left wing of B-36.
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