Shot of practice bomb lodged in pasture on Penn street

Creator

Preview

Identifier

20032276

Description

It all began when Earlton Edwards on Penn Street started out to round up some of his horses in Frenchman's Pasture, back of Penn Street. What he ran across instead was a bomb sticking nose down in the turf. The alarm was spread by word-of-mouth. In lightning time, the Shore Patrol, Military Police, and an assortment of sailors, local policemen, soldiers and civilians had gathered. The area was blocked off and all were awaiting a military expert, when Leslie Spoonts rushed up. He informed everyone that it was an innocent practice bomb brought back from an Army air base at Roswell, New Mexico by his son, Captain Marshall Spoonts, now in China. It had been transported to the field by his younger son and a his pal to scare a friend. Photograph of practice bomb lodged in pasture on Penn street. Published in The Fort Worth Star-Telegram Evening Edition June 19, 1945.

Archival Date

1945-06-18

Collection Name

Fort Worth Star-Telegram Collection

Collection Number

AR406-6-343

Original Format

Negatives, Black & White

File Format

JPG

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License

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Subjects

Bombs; Farms