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Chamber of Commerce

Postcard; aircraft; manufacturing; business and industry; Wichita; Sedgwick County; Kansas; 1940-1949

Postcard of Boeing B-29 Superfortress and PT-17 Kaydet. "Products of the Wichita Division of Boeing Airplane Comany, a might Boeing B-29 Superfortress is shown here with right wing extended over a sturdy little Boeing Kaydet primary trainer. Many Army Air Forces men now flying Superfortresses against Japan received their early training in a Boeing Kaydet (formerly known as the Stearman trainer)...It was the first primary trainer to be completely standardized for both the Army and Navy."

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Grogan Photo Company, Danville, IL

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2023-04-24