"Tex Houston" wrote in message
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"Steven P. McNicoll" wrote in message
k.net...


Nevertheless, the runway was lengthened in 1959-60, between B-47/KC-97
and
B-52/KC-135 operations at Schilling, and long before the B-70 would have
been operational.

Even though the preparations were made for B-52 operations there it did
not
happen. See:

http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/fa.../schilling.htm

From which the following paragraph is quoted.

On 19 November 1964, the Department of Defense announced that Schilling
along with 574 other bases around the world would be closed.

Whoa! *574* bases closed around the world?! I could believe 57 or 74, but
574 seems like a typo. Or did they include dozens of tiny little radio
shacks on Pacific islands with perhaps 5 personnel manning each one?
I know of Bong AFB in Wisconsin being closed before completion in 1961 but
that doesn't really count here...

Nick