AEDC at 75: Air Force, middle Tennessee prepare for AEDC
City of Tullahoma business and civic leaders celebrate Nov. 9, 1949, following the announcement that the former Camp Forrest Army training base near Tullahoma was selected as the site for the new Air Engineering Development Center, which would later become the headquarters of Arnold Engineering Development Complex. Pictured standing from left are T.A. Wiseman, then-Tullahoma Mayor Jack T. Farrar, John W. Harton, A.H. Sanders, F.I. Couser, Morris Simon, Erwin Coop and Floyd Mitchell. Pictured seated in the lower left is Hugh Ledford. (Courtesy photo)