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Identifier
20154901
Description
Two groups of visitors mingled at Forest Park when 96 midshipmen form the United States Naval Academy and 35 air cadets and officers from Canada and Switzerland arrived for a one-day tour of the city and Carswell Air Base and Convair. Left to right at the elephants' pen are bill Readers, 18, of Flim Flon, Manitoba; Skip Whitcomb, 21, of the academy, and Bob Raghtmyer, 18, of Ontario. Reader and Raghtmyer are members of Canada's Air Cadet League, counterpart of the United States Civil Air Patrol which sponsored their visit. The two men in the background are unidentified. Published in Fort Worth Star-Telegram August 10, 1951.
Archival Date
1951-08-10
Collection Name
Fort Worth Star-Telegram Collection
Collection Number
AR406-6-2648
Original Format
Negatives, Black & White
File Format
JPG
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Subjects
Zoos; Guests; Cadets
Names
Whitcomb, Skip; Raghtmyer, Bob
Subjects
Zoos; Guests; Cadets