Ardmore Man’s Three-year Quest for Airpark Memorial To Be Realized At Ceremony -- By Leah J. Simmons, Lifestyles Editor, Sunday, May 25, 2003.
Ardmore historian, Gary Simmons, had a quest – to memorialize all the individuals who died while serving at the Ardmore Army Air Field and Air Force Base during World War II and Korea.
His three-year pursuit will culminate at 11 a.m. Monday with a dedication ceremony at the Ardmore Industrial Airpark and an unveiling of a monument listing the 52 names of military personnel killed in training while serving in Ardmore.
He got the idea after attending a similar ceremony dedicated to those killed here in an American Flyers crash (1966).
Simmons said his part of it came in when we had the American Flyers dedication in June 2000. He got with Butch Bridges and got the names of the people who died on the base during Korea and World War II.
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