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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Theatrical release poster
Directed by
David Fincher
Produced by
Ceán Chaffin
Kathleen Kennedy
Frank Marshall
Screenplay by
Eric Roth
Story by
Eric Roth
Robin Swicord
Based on
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Starring
Brad Pitt
Cate Blanchett
Taraji P. Henson
Julia Ormond
Jason Flemyng
Elias Koteas
Tilda Swinton
Music by
Alexandre Desplat
Cinematography
Claudio Miranda
Edited by
Kirk Baxter
Angus Wall
Production
company
The Kennedy/Marshall Company
Distributed by
Paramount Pictures
(United States)
Warner Bros. Pictures
(International)
Release date
December 25, 2008 (2008-12-25)
Running time
166 minutes[1]
Country
United States
Language
English
Budget
$167 million[2][3]
Box office
$334 million[4]
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is a 2008 American fantasy romantic drama film directed by David Fincher. The storyline by Eric Roth and Robin Swicord is loosely based on the 1922 short story of the same name by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The film stars Brad Pitt as a man who ages in reverse and Cate Blanchett as the love interest throughout his life.
The film was released in North America on December 25, 2008 to positive reviews. The film went on to receive thirteen Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director for Fincher, Best Actor for Pitt, and Best Supporting Actress for Taraji P. Henson, and won three, for Best Art Direction, Best Makeup, and Best Visual Effects.
Contents
1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Production
3.1 Development
3.2 Casting
3.3 Filming
3.4 Music
4 Awards
5 Reception
5.1 Box office performance
5.2 Critical response
6 Home media
7 Accolades
8 See also
9 References
10 External links
Plot[edit]
In August 2005, elderly Daisy Fuller is on her deathbed in a New Orleans hospital as Hurricane Katrina approaches. She starts rambling to her daughter, Caroline, about a train station built in 1918 and Mr. Gateau, the best clockmaker in all of the South, who was hired to make a clock for it. Mr. Gateau was blind, and lost his son in World War I, which crushed him, but he continued to labor over his clock. When it was unveiled at the station, the public was surprised to see that the clock ran backwards, to which Mr. Gateau says he made it that way so that the boys they lost in the war could come back again and live their lives that were ended too soon. After that, Mr. Gateau was never seen again, and people speculated he died of a broken heart or went out to sea.
Daisy then asks Caroline to read aloud from the diary of Benjamin Button.
From the reading, it is revealed that on the evening of November 11, 1918, a boy was born with the appearance and physical maladies of an elderly man. The baby's mother died after giving birth, and the father, Thomas Button, abandons the infant on the porch of a nursing home. Queenie and Mr. "Tizzy" Weathers, workers at the nursing home, find the baby, and Queenie decides to care for him as her own.
Benjamin learns to walk in 1925, after which he uses crutches in place of a wheelchair. On Thanksgiving 1930, Benjamin meets seven-year-old Daisy, whose grandmother lives in the nursing home. He and Daisy become good friends. Later, he accepts work on a tugboat captained by Mike Clark. Benjamin also meets Thomas Button, who does not reveal that he is Benjamin's father. In Autumn 1936, Benjamin leaves New Orleans for a long-term work engagement with the tugboat crew; Daisy later is accepted into a dance company in New York City under choreographer George Balanchine.
In 1941, Benjamin is in Murmansk, where he begins having an affair with Elizabeth Abbott, wife of the British Trade Minister. That December, Japan attacks Pearl Harbor, thrusting the United States into World War II. Mike volunteers the boat for the U.S. Navy; the crew is assigned to salvage duties. During a patrol, the tugboat finds a sunken U.S. transport and the bodies of many American troops. A German submarine surfaces; Mike steers the tugboat full speed towards it while a German gunner fires on the tugboat, killing most of the crew, including Mike. The tugboat rams the submarine, causing it to explode, sinking both vessels. Benjamin and another crewman are rescued by U.S. Navy ships the next day.
In May 1945, Benjamin returns to New Orleans and reunites with Queenie. A few weeks later, he reunites with Daisy; they go out for dinner. Upon failing to seduce him afterward, she departs. Benjamin later reunites with Thomas Button, who, terminally ill, reveals he is Benjamin's father and wills Benjamin his button company and his estate.
In 1947, Benjamin visits Daisy in New York unannounced but departs upon seeing that she has fallen in love with someone else. In 1954, Daisy's dancing career ends when her leg is crushed in an automobile accident in Paris. When Benjamin visits her, Daisy is amazed by his youthful appearance, but, frustrated by her injuries, she tells him to stay out of her life.
In 1962, Daisy returns to New Orleans and reunites with Benjamin. Now of comparable physical age, they fall in love and go sailing together. They return to learn that Queenie has died, then move in together. In 1967, Daisy, who has opened a ballet studio, tells Benjamin that she is pregnant; she gives birth to a girl, Caroline, in the spring of 1968. Believing he can not be a proper father to his daughter due to his reverse aging, Benjamin departs after selling his belongings, leaving a bank account book holding the proceeds behind for Daisy and Caroline; he travels alone during the 1970s.
Benjamin returns to Daisy in 1980. Now married, Daisy introduces him, as a family friend, to her husband and daughter. Daisy admits that he was right to leave; she could not have coped otherwise. She later visits Benjamin at his hotel, where they again share their passion for each other, then part once more.
In 1990, widowed Daisy is contacted by social workers who have found Benjamin—now physically a pre-teen. When she arrives, they explain that he was living in a condemned building and was taken to the hospital in poor physical condition, and that they found her name in his diary. The bewildered social workers also say he is displaying early signs of dementia. Daisy moves into the nursing home in 1997 and cares for Benjamin for the rest of his life.
Daisy says that in 2002, a new clock replaced Mr. Gateau's in the train station, a digital clock that ran forward, not backwards. Then, a year later in the spring of 2003, Benjamin dies in Daisy's arms, physically an infant but chronologically 84 years of age. Having finally revealed the story of Caroline's father to her, Daisy dies as Hurricane Katrina approaches.
The final scene of the movie ends with Benjamin’s narration about what people were brought into this world for, recapping all the individuals that he loved and lost throughout his life. The film ends with alarms wailing as Katrina quickly floods a dimly lit storage room that holds Mr. Gateau’s forgotten clock, which continues to tick backwards.
Cast[edit]
Brad Pitt as Benjamin Button (adult), Caroline's biological father
Robert Towers as Benjamin Button (apparent adult)
Peter Donald Badalamenti II as Benjamin Button (apparent adult)
Tom Everett as Benjamin Button (apparent adult)
Spencer Daniels as Benjamin Button (apparent age 12)
Chandler Canterbury as Benjamin Button (apparent age 8)
Charles Henry Wyson as Benjamin Button (apparent age 6)
Cate Blanchett as Daisy Fuller (adult)
Elle Fanning as Daisy Fuller (age 7)
Madisen Beaty as Daisy Fuller (age 10)
Taraji P. Henson as Queenie
Julia Ormond as Caroline Fuller (adult), Benjamin and Daisy's daughter
Katta Hules as Caroline Fuller (age 12)
Shiloh Jolie-Pitt as Caroline Fuller (age 2)
Jason Flemyng as Thomas Button, Benjamin's father
Mahershala Ali as Tizzy Weathers
Jared Harris as Captain Mike Clark
Faune A. Chambers as Dorothy Baker
Elias Koteas as Monsieur Gateau, a blind clockmaker in a story Daisy tells Caroline
Ed Metzger as Theodore Roosevelt
Phyllis Somerville as Grandma Fuller
Josh Stewart as Pleasant Curtis
Tilda Swinton as Elizabeth Abbott
Bianca Chiminello as Daisy's friend
Rampai Mohadi as Ngunda Oti
Lance E. Nichols as Preacher
Production[edit]
Development[edit]
Producer Ray Stark bought the film rights to do The Curious Case of Benjamin Button in the mid-1980s, and it was optioned by Universal Pictures. The first choice to direct it was Frank Oz, with Martin Short attached for the title role, but Oz could not work out how to make the story work. The film was optioned in 1991 by Steven Spielberg, with Tom Cruise attached for the lead role, but Spielberg left the project to direct Jurassic Park and Schindler's List. Other directors attached were Patrick Read Johnson and Agnieszka Holland. Stark eventually sold the rights to producers Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall, who took the film to Paramount Pictures, with Universal Pictures still on as a co-production partner. By summer 1994, Maryland Film Office chief Jack Gerbes was approached with the possibility of making the film in Baltimore. In October 1998, screenwriter Robin Swicord wrote for director Ron Howard an adapted screenplay of the short story, a project which would potentially star actor John Travolta.[5] In May 2000, Paramount Pictures hired screenwriter Jim Taylor to adapt a screenplay from the short story. The studio also attached director Spike Jonze to helm the project.[6] Screenwriter Charlie Kaufman had also written a draft of the adapted screenplay at one point.[7] In June 2003, director Gary Ross entered final negotiations to helm the project based on a new draft penned by screenwriter Eric Roth.[8] In May 2004, director David Fincher entered negotiations to replace Ross in directing the film.[9]
Casting[edit]
In May 2005, actors Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett entered negotiations to star in the film.[10] In September 2006, actors Tilda Swinton, Jason Flemyng and Taraji P. Henson entered negotiations to be cast into the film.[11] The following October, with production yet to begin, actress Julia Ormond was cast as Daisy's daughter, to whom Blanchett's character tells the story of her love for Benjamin Button.[12] Brad Pitt had collaborated with many of his co-stars in previous films. He co-starred with Ormond in Legends of the Fall, with Flemyng in Snatch, with Jared Harris in Ocean's Twelve, with Blanchett in Babel and with Swinton in Burn After Reading.
Filming[edit]
Some filming was conducted in the Garden District of New Orleans, including this home at 2707 Coliseum St.
Parisian scenes shooting in Old Montreal
For Benjamin Button, New Orleans, Louisiana and the surrounding area was chosen as the filming location for the story to take advantage of the state's production incentives, and shooting was slated to begin in October 2006.[13] By filming in Louisiana and taking advantage of the state's film incentive, the production received $27 million, which was used to finance a significant portion of the film's $167 million budget.[14][15] Filming of Benjamin Button began on November 6, 2006 in New Orleans. In January 2007, Blanchett joined the shoot.[16] Fincher praised the ease of accessibility to rural and urban sets in New Orleans and said that the recovery from Hurricane Katrina did not serve as an atypical hindrance to production.[17]
In March 2007, production moved to Los Angeles for two more months of filming. Principal photography was targeted to last a total of 150 days. Additional time was needed at visual effects house Digital Domain to make the visual effects for the metamorphosis of Brad Pitt's character to the infant stage.[18] The director used a camera system called Contour, developed by Steve Perlman, to capture facial deformation data from live-action performances.[19]
Several digital environments for the film were created by Matte World Digital, including multiple shots of the interior of the New Orleans train station, to show architectural alterations and deterioration throughout different eras. The train station was built as a 3D model and lighting and aging effects were added, using Next Limit's Maxwell rendering software—an architectural visualization tool.[20] Overall production was finished in September 2007.[21]
Music[edit]
The score to The Curious Case of Benjamin Button was written by French composer Alexandre Desplat, who recorded his score with an 87-piece ensemble of the Hollywood Studio Symphony at the Sony Scoring Stage.[22]
Awards[edit]
At the Academy Awards the film won in three categories: Best Achievement in Art Direction, Best Achievement in Makeup, and Best Achievement in Visual Effects. It was also nominated in ten other categories: Best Motion Picture of the Year, Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role, Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role, Best Achievement in Directing, Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay, Best Achievement in Cinematography, Best Achievement in Film Editing, Best Achievement in Costume Design, Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Score, and Best Achievement in Sound Mixing.
Taraji P. Henson won Best Actress at the BET Awards for her role in the film combined with two other performances in Not Easily Broken, and The Family That Preys.
The film won all four awards it was nominated for at the 7th Visual Effects Society Awards, the categories of "Outstanding Visual Effects in a Visual Effects-Driven Feature Motion Picture," "Best Single Visual Effect of the Year," "Outstanding Animated Character in a Live Action Feature Motion Picture," and "Outstanding Compositing in a Feature Motion Picture."
Reception[edit]
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button was originally slated for theatrical release in May 2008,[23] but it was pushed back to November 26, 2008.[24] The release date was moved again to December 25 in the United States, January 16, 2009 in Mexico, February 6 in the United Kingdom, February 13 in Italy[25] and February 27 in South Africa.
Box office performance[edit]
On its opening day, the film opened in the number two position behind Marley & Me, in North America with $11,871,831 in 2,988 theaters with a $3,973 average.[4] However, during its opening weekend, the film dropped to the third position behind Marley & Me and Bedtime Stories with $26,853,816 in 2,988 theaters with an $8,987 average. The film has come to gross $127.5 million domestically and $206.4 million in foreign markets, with a total gross of $333.9 million.[4]
Critical response[edit]
The film has received positive reviews, with Pitt's performance receiving praise. The review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reports that 72% of critics gave the film positive reviews based on 238 reviews. Consensus reads: "Curious Case of Benjamin Button is an epic fantasy tale with rich storytelling backed by fantastic performances."[26] According to Metacritic, the film received an average score of 70 out of 100, based on 37 reviews.[27] Yahoo! Movies reported the film received a B+ average score from critical consensus, based on 12 reviews.[28]
Todd McCarthy of Variety magazine gave the film a positive review, calling it a "richly satisfying serving of deep-dish Hollywood storytelling."[29] Peter Howell of The Toronto Star says: "It's been said that the unexamined life is not worth living. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button suggests an addendum: a life lived backwards can be far more enriching" and describes the film as "a magical and moving account of a man living his life resoundingly in reverse" and "moviemaking at its best."[30] Rod Yates of Empire awarded it five out of a possible five stars.[31] Kirk Honeycutt of The Hollywood Reporter felt the film was "superbly made and winningly acted by Brad Pitt in his most impressive outing to date." Honeycutt praised Fincher's directing of the film and noted that the "cinematography wonderfully marries a palette of subdued earthen colors with the necessary CGI and other visual effects that place one in a magical past." Honeycutt states the bottom line about Benjamin Button is that it is "an intimate epic about love and loss that is pure cinema."[32]
A. O. Scott of The New York Times states: "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, more than two and a half hours long, sighs with longing and simmers with intrigue while investigating the philosophical conundrums and emotional paradoxes of its protagonist’s condition in a spirit that owes more to Jorge Luis Borges than to Fitzgerald." Scott praised director David Fincher and writes "Building on the advances of pioneers like Steven Spielberg, Peter Jackson and Robert Zemeckis, Mr. Fincher has added a dimension of delicacy and grace to digital filmmaking" and further states: "While it stands on the shoulders of breakthroughs like Minority Report, The Lord of the Rings and Forrest Gump, Benjamin Button may be the most dazzling such hybrid yet, precisely because it is the subtlest." He also stated: "At the same time, like any other love—like any movie—it is shadowed by disappointment and fated to end."[33] On the other hand, Anne Hornaday of The Washington Post states: "There's no denying the sheer ambition and technical prowess of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. What's less clear is whether it entirely earns its own inflated sense of self-importance" and further says, "It plays too safe when it should be letting its freak flag fly."[34] Kimberley Jones of the Austin Chronicle panned the film and states, "Fincher's selling us cheekboned movie stars frolicking in bedsheets and calling it a great love. I didn't buy it for a second."[35]
Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film two and a half stars out of four, saying that it is "a splendidly made film based on a profoundly mistaken premise." He goes on to elaborate that "the movie's premise devalues any relationship, makes futile any friendship or romance, and spits, not into the face of destiny, but backward into the maw of time."[36] Peter Bradshaw in The Guardian called it "166 minutes of twee tedium", giving it one star out of a possible five.[37]
Cosmo Landesman of the Sunday Times wrote: "The film's premise serves no purpose. It's a gimmick that goes on for nearly three hours," concluding "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is an anodyne Hollywood film that offers a safe and sanitised view of life and death. It's Forrest Gump goes backwards," while awarding the film two out of five stars.[38] James Christopher in The Times called it "a tedious marathon of smoke and mirrors. In terms of the basic requirements of three-reel drama the film lacks substance, credibility, a decent script and characters you might actually care for"[39] while Derek Malcolm of London's Evening Standard notes that "never at any point do you feel that there's anything more to it than a very strange story traversed by a film-maker who knows what he is doing but not always why he is doing it."[40]
Home media[edit]
The film was released on DVD on May 5, 2009 by Paramount, and on Blu-ray and 2-Disc DVD by The Criterion Collection. The Criterion release includes over three hours of special features, and a documentary about the making of the film.[41]
As of November 1, 2009 the DVD has sold 2,515,722 DVD copies and has generated $41,196,515 in sales revenue.[42]
Accolades[edit]
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Award
Category
Recipient
Result
Ref(s)
81st Academy Awards Best Picture Kathleen Kennedy
Frank Marshall
Ceán Chaffin Nominated
[43]
Best Director David Fincher Nominated
Best Actor in a Leading Role Brad Pitt Nominated
Best Actress in a Supporting Role Taraji P. Henson Nominated
Best Adapted Screenplay Eric Roth Nominated
Best Film Editing Kirk Baxter
Angus Wall Nominated
Best Cinematography Claudio Miranda Nominated
Best Art Direction Donald Graham Burt
Victor J. Zolfo Won
Best Costume Design Jacqueline West Nominated
Best Makeup Greg Cannom Won
Best Original Score Alexandre Desplat Nominated
Best Sound Mixing David Parker
Michael Semanick
Ren Klyce
Mark Weingarten Nominated
Best Visual Effects Eric Barba
Steve Preeg
Burt Dalton
Craig Barron Won
American Society of Cinematographers Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography in Theatrical Releases Claudio Miranda Nominated
[44]
Austin Film Critics Association Best Supporting Actress Taraji P. Henson Won
[45]
British Academy Film Awards Best Film Kathleen Kennedy
Frank Marshall
Ceán Chaffin Nominated
[46]
Best Makeup & Hair
Won
Best Director David Fincher Nominated
Best Adapted Screenplay Eric Roth Nominated
Best Leading Actor Brad Pitt Nominated
Best Costume Design
Nominated
Best Music Alexandre Desplat Nominated
Best Cinematography Claudio Miranda Nominated
Best Editing
Nominated
Best Production Design
Won
Best Visual Effects
Won
Broadcast Film Critics Association Best Film
Nominated
[47]
Best Actor Brad Pitt Nominated
Best Actress Cate Blanchett Nominated
Best Director David Fincher Nominated
Best Supporting Actress Taraji P. Henson Nominated
Best Cast
Nominated
Best Screenplay Eric Roth Nominated
Best Composer Alexandre Desplat Nominated
Chicago Film Critics Association Best Picture
Nominated
Best Director David Fincher Nominated
Best Screenplay, Adapted Eric Roth Nominated
Best Cinematography Claudio Miranda Nominated
Best Original Score Alexandre Desplat Nominated
Directors Guild of America Awards Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures David Fincher Nominated
Golden Globe Awards Best Motion Picture Drama
Nominated
[48]
Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama Brad Pitt Nominated
Best Director - Motion Picture David Fincher Nominated
Best Screenplay Eric Roth Nominated
Best Original Score Alexandre Desplat Nominated
Houston Film Critics Society Awards Best Picture
Won
Best Director David Fincher Nominated
Best Actor Brad Pitt Nominated
Best Actress Cate Blanchett Nominated
Best Supporting Actress Taraji P. Henson Nominated
Best Screenplay Eric Roth Nominated
Best Cinematography Claudio Miranda Won
Best Score Alexandre Desplat Nominated
Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards Best Art Direction
Won
Best Cinematography Claudio Miranda Won
Best Costume Design Jacqueline West Won
London Film Critics' Circle Best Film
Nominated
Director of the Year David Fincher Won
British Supporting Actress of the Year Tilda Swinton Won
Screenwriter of the Year Eric Roth Nominated
MTV Movie Awards Best Female Performance Taraji P. Henson Nominated
[49]
National Board of Review National Board of Review: Top Ten Films
Won
[47][50]
Best Director David Fincher Won
Best Adapted Screenplay Eric Roth Won
Satellite Awards Best Adapted Screenplay Eric Roth
Robin Swicord Nominated
Best Art Direction and Production Design Donald Graham Burt
Tom Reta Nominated
Best Cinematography Claudio Miranda Nominated
Best Costume Design Jacqueline West Nominated
Saturn Award Best Fantasy Film
Won
Best Actor Brad Pitt Nominated
Best Actress Cate Blatchett Nominated
Best Supporting Actress Tilda Swinton Won
Best Director David Fincher Nominated
Best Writing Eric Roth Nominated
Best Music Alexandre Desplat Nominated
Best Make-Up
Won
Best Visual Effects
Nominated
Scream Awards Best Fantasy Actor Brad Pitt Nominated
Screen Actors Guild Awards Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role Brad Pitt Nominated
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role Taraji P. Henson Nominated
Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
Nominated
St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association Awards Best Film
Won
[51]
Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards Best Director David Fincher Won
[52]
Visual Effects Society Awards Outstanding Visual Effects in a Visual Effects-Driven Feature Motion Picture Eric Barba, Edson Williams, Nathan McGuinness, Lisa Beroud Won [53]
Best Single Visual Effect of the Year Eric Barba, Lisa Beroud, Steve Preeg, Jonathan Litt for "Benjamin's Secret" Won
Outstanding Animated Character in a Live Action Feature Motion Picture Steve Preeg, Matthias Wittmann, Tom St. Amand, David McLean for "Benjamin Button" Won
Outstanding Compositing in a Feature Motion Picture Janelle Croshaw, Paul Lambert, Sonja Burchard, Sarahjane Javelo for "Benjamin Comes Together" Won
Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Best Art Direction
Won
Writers Guild of America Awards Writers Guild of America Award for Best Adapted Screenplay Eric Roth
Robin Swicord Nominated
See also[edit]
De-aging in film
Sean Morey (comedian) Reverse Life Cycle
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Laughlin Air Force Base
Part of Air Education and Training Command (AETC)
Located in Del Rio, Texas
T-6A Texan II, 84th Flying Training Squadron, Laughlin AFB
Site information
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United States Air Force
Site history
Built
1943
In use
1943-Present
Garrison information
Garrison
47th Flying Training Wing
Airfield information
IATA: DLF
ICAO: KDLF
FAA LID: DLF
Summary
Elevation AMSL
1,082 ft / 329.8 m
Coordinates
29°21′34″N 100°46′41″W / 29.35944°N 100.77806°W / 29.35944; -100.77806Coordinates: 29°21′34″N 100°46′41″W / 29.35944°N 100.77806°W / 29.35944; -100.77806
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Runways
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Length
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m
13C/31C 8,857 2,700 Asphalt
13L/31R 8,311 2,533 PEM
13R/31L 6,246 1,904 Asphalt
Laughlin Air Force Base (IATA: DLF, ICAO: KDLF, FAA LID: DLF) is a facility of the United States Air Force located in Del Rio, Texas. As a census-designated place, it had a population of 1,648 at the 2015 census.[1]
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1 Overview
2 History
3 Local entertainment
4 Geography
5 Demographics
6 Education
7 See also
8 References
9 External links
Overview[edit]
Laughlin AFB, the largest pilot training base in the US Air Force, is home to the 47th Flying Training Wing of the Air Education and Training Command. On weekdays, the airfield sees more takeoffs and landings than any other airport in the country.[citation needed]
History[edit]
Laughlin AFB was originally named Laughlin Army Air Field on March 3, 1943, after Jack T. Laughlin, a B-17E Flying Fortress pilot. He was trained as a pilot and was actually co-pilot of B-17E, Tail number 41-2476. The day of his first bombing mission, he was bumped by the Group Commander Major Stanley K. Robinson (Robinson was co-pilot next to Capt Walter W. Sparks pilot). Major Robinson brought along his own combat experienced navigator, Lt Richard Cease. Laughlin had no assigned position on the plane for the mission. He became Del Rio's first World War II casualty when the plane he was flying in (most likely as a waist gunner for the mission) was lost at sea, having succumbed to damage received over the Makassar Strait on 29 (or 28) January 1942. The damage occurred during two bombing runs against Japanese warships and transports in the Makassar Strait off the coast of Balikpapan, Borneo. The field became simply Laughlin Field on November 11, 1943 and later an Army Air Force Auxiliary Field. During World War II, Laughlin's primary mission was the training of B-26 pilots and aircrews. It was closed in October 1945.
Laughlin Army Air Field Texas 1943 Classbook
Laughlin Air Force Base reopened on May 1, 1952. In October 1952, ATC transferred the base to Crew Training Air Force (CREWTAF) and activated the 3645th Flying Training Wing (Fighter), as a combat crew replacement training facility for pilots headed for Korea. Training provided new pilots with basic bombing and gunnery combat skills in the F-80 Shooting Star, F-84 Thunderjet, and T-33 jet aircraft, but within a short time crews used only the T-33. In Sept. 1955, Laughlin came under the control of the Flying Training Air Force and switched missions with Williams Air Force Base, Arizona. Laughlin undertook single-engine pilot training, still using the T-33.
The Air Force transferred jurisdiction of the base to the Strategic Air Command on April 1, 1957 and the 4080th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing (Light) moved there from Turner Air Force Base, Georgia. Following graduation of the last class in March 1957, ATC inactivated the 3645th FTW. The 4080th Wing provided high-altitude reconnaissance and air sampling using the Lockheed U-2A and the RB-57D Canberra. The 4080th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing was redesignated the 4080th Strategic Wing on June 15, 1960, and the RB-57 mission was phased out.
Laughlin Army Air Field photo pictorial
Laughlin U-2s were among the first to provide photographic evidence of Soviet missile installations in Cuba in 1962 when 4080th U-2 pilot Major Steve Heyser flew his U-2C over Cuba after taking off from Edwards AFB, California. Heyser landed at McCoy AFB, Florida, following the mission, with McCoy becoming a U-2 operating location for the duration of the Cuban Missile Crisis. The film from Major Heyser's mission was developed, analyzed and the photos were shown to the United Nations Security Council on October 22, 1962, proving to the world, that offensive missiles were on the island of Cuba.
Another 4080th pilot, Major Rudolf Anderson, Jr., perished when his U-2 was hit by shrapnel from a Soviet-made SA-2 on October 22, 1962 while overflying Cuba from McCoy AFB. While U-2 did not suffer a direct hit, Anderson was struck by fragments from the proximity fused warhead's explosion which penetrated and compromised his pressure suit (at altitude, unconsciousness and death came very quickly). His body was returned to the U.S. following the crisis, still clad in its pressure suit. Major Anderson posthumously became the first recipient of the Air Force Cross, the Air Force's second highest decoration for valor. Laughlin's primary operations training complex, Anderson Hall, is named in his honor.
In 1961, Headquarters US Air Force notified Laughlin officials their mission would expand to again include an Air Training Command undergraduate pilot training program. Plans called to transfer in about half the student load from Laredo Air Force Base, Texas. ATC reactivated the 3645th Pilot Training Wing (later redesignated 3646th Pilot Training Wing) at Laughlin in October 1961 to prepare for the phase-in of students and T-37 and T-33 trainers. The 4080th SW continued at Laughlin as a tenant organization until 1963.
Today, aircraft flown at Laughlin include the T-6A Texan II, the T-38C Talon and T-1A Jayhawk. Fifteen classes of approximately 20-25 pilots graduate annually.
Local entertainment[edit]
Lake Amistad provides year-round, water-based recreation opportunities, including boating, fishing, swimming, scuba diving and water-skiing, as well as other recreational opportunities for picnicking, camping, and hunting. The area is rich in archeology and prehistoric rock art, and contains a wide variety of plant and animal life. Del Rio is home to the George Paul Memorial Bullriding, which is the oldest stand-alone bull riding event in the world. It is also home to the Paul Poag Theatre, and the oldest bonded winery in Texas, the Val Verde Winery, in the heart of Del Rio. Along the San Felipe Creek there are numerous recreational areas including playgrounds, running trails, picnic areas, an amphitheater, a water park and the San Felipe Golf Course. Swimming and tubing are also very popular on the creek. Within a short drive from Del Rio is the world-class Caverns of Sonora, a National Natural Landmark. Additional recreational activities exist across the border in Ciudad Acuña, however current DoD policy does not allow travel across the border for military personnel.
Geography[edit]
The residential area of the base is a census-designated place (CDP), with a population of 1,569 at the 2010 census.[1] According to the United States Census Bureau, the base has a total area of 5.9 square miles (15.3 km2), all of it land.
Demographics[edit]
As of the census[2] of 2014, there were 2,225 people, 651 households, and 570 families residing on the base. The population density was 377.6 people per square mile (145.9/km2). There were 664 housing units at an average density of 112.7/sq mi (43.5/km2). The racial makeup of the base was 78.4% European American, 10.7% African American, 0.3% Native American, 2.7% Asian, 0.1% Pacific Islander, 4.5% from other races, and 3.4% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 12.3% of the population.
There were 651 households out of which 56.1% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 82.8% were married couples living together, 3.4% had a female householder with no husband present, and 12.3% were non-families. 6.6% of all households were made up of individuals and none had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 3.00 and the average family size was 3.18.
On the base the population was spread out with 30.6% under the age of 18, 23.6% from 18 to 24, 42.7% from 25 to 44, 2.5% from 45 to 64, and 0.6% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 24 years. For every 100 females, there were 130.1 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 136.4 males.
The median income for a household on the base was $38,625, and the median income for a family was $38,625. Males had a median income of $26,938 versus $19,643 for females. The per capita income for the base was $15,121. About 3.1% of families and 4.6% of the population were below the poverty line, including 5.8% of those under age 18 and none of those age 65 or over.
Education[edit]
Laughlin AFB is served by the San Felipe Del Rio Consolidated Independent School District.[3]
Park University offers onsite and online classes on base. Their office is located at the Education Center and is open to military and civilian personnel.
See also[edit]
United States Air Force portal
Military of the United States portal
World War II portal
34th Flying Training Wing (World War II)
Air Training Command
Texas World War II Army Airfields
References[edit]
This article incorporates public domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency website http://www.afhra.af.mil/.
Shaw, Frederick J. (2004), Locating Air Force Base Sites History's Legacy, Air Force History and Museums Program, United States Air Force, Washington DC, 2004.
Manning, Thomas A. (2005), History of Air Education and Training Command, 1942–2002. Office of History and Research, Headquarters, AETC, Randolph AFB, Texas ASIN: B000NYX3PC
Laughlin AFB (official site)
FAA Airport Master Record for DLF (Form 5010 PDF)
^ Jump up to: a b "Profile of General Population and Housing Characteristics: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (DP-1): Laughlin AFB CDP, Texas". U.S. Census Bureau, American Factfinder. Retrieved February 1, 2012.
Jump up ^ "American FactFinder". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved 2008-01-31.
Jump up ^ "Laughlin AFB, Texas" (Archive). U.S. Department of Defense. Retrieved on August 13, 2015.
External links[edit]
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Laughlin Air Force Base.
History of Laughlin AFB
Leatherwood, Art (June 15, 2010). "Laughlin Air Force Base". Handbook of Texas (online ed.). Texas State Historical Association.
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