Miracle Over Yoakum: The 1951 B-29 Bomber Crash

By Murray Montgomery

It was a cold morning, by Texas standards, on November 30, 1951. The temperature was about 50 degrees with drizzling rain as most folks in Yoakum were sleeping. However, that sleep abruptly ended sometime after midnight when a loud, booming sound nearly shook them from their beds. 

The blast was heard all across the area, and people rushed from their homes to search for the…