Buckingham Army Air Field
For most people in Southwest Florida, the name Buckingham is just one more dot on a map,a rural area east of U.S. Interstate 75. But for a few years, it was so much more. Starting in 1942, it was the site of the Buckingham Army Air Field,home to some 16,000 men and women supporting the United States, World War II efforts. Airplanes roared in the skies over Lee County and reflected off the azure waters of the Gulf of Mexico as tens of thousands of young men trained as aerial gunners. Learning to target and bring down enemy aircraft with their guns was critical to America,s success in both the European and Pacific theaters. On the ground, truck…
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- ISBN: 978-1-4396-2656-6
- EAN: 9781439626566
- Produktnummer: 28034340
- Verlag: Arcadia Publishing Inc.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
- Seitenangabe: 0 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 46'984 KB
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