Garland Simms Photos

On this day, 1947..THIS is what I was doing (62 ! ! years ago ! )....I was visiting Scottie, who was a student at Southwestern University @ Georgetown, Texas, near Austin......

     I was using a plane that belonged to the flying school that I worked for...Early that morning, I heard about the explosion, and figured that I had better get the plane back to home base..Beaumont, Tex. When I arrived, they had a Doctor waiting for ME to take to Galveston, and return to take others....So..off I go to Galveston, and flew right by all of the ruins and smoke of the explosion, just BEFORE they closed the skies to aircraft in the vicinity....I took some pix as I flew by,(and I am trying  to find them).We flew under the smoke cloud  into Galveston...I let the Dr. out, and returned the same route back to Bmt. Upon return, I refueled as another Dr.was ready to go....Back to  Galveston, and then returned to Bmt. Upon landing , I was told to go to Lake Charles,La, and pick up ANOTHER Dr. and take him to Galveston ...I got back home to the Bmt.airport just at dark.......,and I was a TARRRED little flyboy.