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It is the location of a hydrogen bomb lost by a B-47 Stratojet bomber in 1958. This lost hydrogen bomb is also known as the Tybee Bomb.On the night of February 5, 1958, a B-47 Stratojet bomber carrying a hydrogen bomb on a night training flight off the Georgia coast collided with an F-86 Saberjet fighter at 36,000 feet.
Tybee Island's strategic position near the mouth of the Savannah River has made the island's northern tip the ideal location for a lighthouse since Georgia's early settlement period. First built in 1736, the lighthouse was made of brick and wood , and stood 90 feet (27 m) tall, making it the highest structure in America at that time.
As a 19-year-old Savannah State University student in 1987, Kenneth Flowe knew he had to be strategic when getting a permit to host the first iteration of Orange Crush.
In the 12,000-square-mile stretch of coastal North Carolina to Florida that is the Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor lies pieces of Gullah history within the Tybee Island Black History Trail.
A worker places a section of metal barricade along a main road on Tybee Island, Ga., on Tuesday, April 16, 2024, a few days ahead of the weekend beach party known as Orange Crush.
The Tybee Island mid-air collision was an incident on February 5, 1958, in which the United States Air Force lost a 7,600-pound (3,400 kg) Mark 15 nuclear bomb in the waters off Tybee Island near Savannah, Georgia, United States. During a night practice exercise, an F-86 fighter plane collided with the B-47 bomber carrying the large weapon.
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The Tybee Island Light is a lighthouse located on the north end of Tybee Island, Georgia. It overlooks the Savannah River at the point where the river meets the Atlantic Ocean . The Tybee Light is one of seven surviving colonial-era lighthouse towers in the United States, but it was heavily modified during the mid-nineteenth century.