Victory Field, Vernon

Creator

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Identifier

20028249

Description

Victory Field, Vernon. Surplus planes. Left to right, Lieutenant (junior grade) W. Lloyd, Lieutenant (junior grade) B. W. Jarvis, Lieutenant H. E. Cave, Lieutenant W. W. Carpenter. Clipping photograph caption: Delivery Surplus Planes. Leaving Victory Field, Vernon , for the Grand Prairie Naval Air Station after delivering surplus Navy planes are, left to right, Lt.(jg) W. Lloyd, Lt.(jg) B.W. Jarvis, Lt. H.E. Cave, Lt. W.W. Carpenter. Clipping title: Used Planes Cheaper Than Used Cars At Vernon's Victory Field Sales Lot Range From $590 To $8,500. It's one of those post-war paradoxes, but you can buy a used plane cheaper than you can a used automobile, if you have any use for a plane! C.C. Grady, the RFC's (Reconstruction Finance Corporation) used plane salesman at Victory Field, has more than 800 planes for the buyer to choose from and they range in size from a two-seater open cockpit biplane trainer to a dive-bomber or a twin-motored, five-place Cessna cabin job. "We've sold about 100 in the last three weeks and the buyers are still coming, rain or shine," Grady laughed. Published morning edition November 25, 1945. Photograph of four soldiers posing in front of an airplane. They are all wearing leather jackets and military uniforms.

Archival Date

1945-11-09

Collection Name

Fort Worth Star-Telegram Collection

Collection Number

AR406-6-398

Original Format

Negatives, Black & White

File Format

JPG

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License

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Subjects

Airplanes; Military officers