Ellsworth Air Force Base, 1942-1957

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The airfield control tower under construction, 1942.

How Rapid City's small airport became a key facility in the Strategic Air Command.

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The activation and growth of the 44th over 20 years. (The 44th was deactivated in 1994.)

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Film from the record-setting balloon flights.

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A 30-minute SDPB TV documentary featuring clips from historical South Dakota films shot between 1913 - 1962.

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One of the first aircraft in South Dakota landing at the fairgrounds, and a late 1930's fly-in at the Spearfish airport featuring several makes and models of commercial, military, and stunt aircraft.

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Latchstring Inn Postcard

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The story of a landmark resort in the Black Hills - still in business after more than a century.

"Personalities" with Chuck Anderson. Vintage radio interviews with well known and not so well known South Dakotans.

Personalities: Roy and Lucille Fitz Pt. II

In this continuation of the story of Roy and Lucille Fitz, the De Smet couple discusses the reality of the...

Personalities: Roy and Lucille Fitz, Part 1

Sadly, we're losing senior South Dakotans able to share first-hand remembrances of what life was like here in the...

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Ellsworth Air Force Base, 1942-1957

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Ellsworth AFB - 44th Missile Wing, 1962-1982

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The Stratobowl Flights of the 1930s

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Television Special: The Historical Footprints Collection

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Spearfish Aviation - 1913 & 1938

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The Glendoris (Latchstring) Inn

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"Personalities" with Chuck Anderson. Vintage radio interviews with well known and not so well known South Dakotans.

Personalities: Roy and Lucille Fitz Pt. II

Personalities: Roy and Lucille Fitz, Part 1

Personalities: Huron Native Candace Hilligoss on Her 1962 Cult Film Classic, "Carnival of Souls"

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