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March Field
Riverside County, California
Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
One of the oldest air bases in the country, opened weeks before the First World War ended and named for a lieutenant killed in a training crash. It trained bomber crews through the Second World War and held nuclear alert aircraft through the Cold War.
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