Dick Purdum, center, handing the B-47 Association check for all of the remaining association funds over to the SAC Museum to be used only for the renovation of their B-47 to the Museum President & CEO Mr. Jeffrey Cannon., left. Hambone, right, is the head of restoration.
Please see attached letter regarding the disbanding of the Association.
All three Albuquerque members of the Stratojet Association were on hand today to present the check for $5,000 to Jim Walther, Director of the National Museum of Nuclear Science and History.
In memory of a plane crash
An Air Force bomber crashed on Emigrant Peak in 1962. Remembering the men who died has become one man’s mission
Emigrant Peak B-47 Crash Memorial – Montana from Homefire Productions on Vimeo.
I will not forget the day three B47 Stratojets one after the other flew low over my home in central England. I was seventeen. They were turning and headed north. I realised they had taken off from somewhere nearby. After cycling out in the general direction I finally found the airfield – RAF Bruntingthorpe, ten to twelve miles or so out of town.
It is with great sadness that we announce that Jim Diamond, the B-47 Association’s longtime Webmaster passed away on 3 July 2014 after a short battle with cancer. Jim, a retired Master Sergeant served his country and from the very early days of the B-47 Association served on its Board of Directors. He also served as the President of the 40th until his untimely death. In honor of his service the B-47 Association Board of Directors has made a contribution to the Strategic Air and Space Museum toward the refurbishment of their B-47 and a brick reading “MSGT JIM DIAMOND, 40BW C/CHIEF, B-47 ASSOC BOARD” will be placed in the memorial plaza at the museum.
