Lt. Barksdale - Bossier City Louisiana
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misfitt
N 32° 30.936 W 093° 43.785
15S E 431458 N 3597823
The man that named an Air Force Base.
Waymark Code: WM1MW6
Location: Louisiana, United States
Date Posted: 06/03/2007
Views: 42
At Bossier City, across Red River from Shreveport, Louisiana, the nearby Barksdale Air Force Base, a very large B-52 base was named after a Lieutenant Eugene Hoy Barksdale. This was the name given the base that took ten years to achieve. It was a memorial to this man as he was a test pilot who died in a test in 1926. It was a very unfortunate accident. In the test he was performing that fateful consisted of purposely putting the plane into a spinning maneuver. He did it twice. The first time the plane recovered but, the second time it didn’t. He bailed out but , his chute cords caught in the braces of the wind an were sheared and this resulted in his death.
This mural is located at Red River Refinishing Antiques Building - 900 Barksdale Blvd. (corner of Barksdale & Watson Streets) in Bossier City, Louisiana.
City: Bossier City Louisiana
Location Name: Red River Refinishing Antiques Building - 900 Barksdale Blvd.
Artist: Manning
Date: 1995
Media: Not listed
Relevant Web Site: Not listed
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