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2. Florida World War II Army Airfields - Wikipedia

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   1940-1944. In use. 1940-present. During World War II, the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) established numerous airfields in Florida for antisubmarine defense in the western Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico and for training pilots and aircrews of USAAF fighters, attack planes, and light and medium bombers. After early 1944, heavy bomber crews ...

3. Boca Raton Army Air Field - Wikipedia

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   Boca Raton Army Air Field was a World War II United States Army Air Forces airfield, located 1.7 miles (2.7 km) northwest of the 1940s borders of Boca Raton, Florida. During World War II, it operated the only training for the then new and secret technology of radar. Closed in 1946, due to annexation the former base is now within the city of ...

4. Palm Beach International Airport - Wikipedia

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   Palm Beach International Airport began operations in 1936 as Morrison Field. It was named in honor of Grace Morrison, a key participant in the planning and organization of the airfield. The first flight departing the field was a New York bound DC-2 operated by Eastern Air Lines in 1936. The airport was dedicated on December 19, 1936.

5. Palm Beach County school employee shoots self during armed ...

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   Palm Beach County has long declined to participate in the Coach Aaron Feis Guardian Program, which is designed to train armed school staff to help school police officers in the event of a threat ...

6. United States Army World War I Flight Training - Wikipedia

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   However flying training in the Army remained on a small scale until the USA joined World War I in April 1917. [1] In February 1913, the Aviation School contingent in Augusta, Georgia, along with two pilots who had been training in Palm Beach, Florida, transferred to Texas City, Texas, to join ground forces on duty along the border.

7. Palm Beach County Park Airport - Wikipedia

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   Palm Beach County Park Airport. Palm Beach County Park Airport (IATA: LNA, ICAO: KLNA, FAA LID: LNA) is a county-owned, public-use airport in Palm Beach County, Florida, United States. It is located six nautical miles (7 mi, 11 km) south of the central business district of West Palm Beach, Florida. [1] This airport is included in the National ...