Cubdriver opined

Postwar, the newly minted U.S. Air Force decided to name each of its
airfields after a dead hero from the state in which the field was
located. So when the Strategic Air Command got a base outside
Portsmouth NH in 1956, it was named for Harlan Pease (pronounced
'peas' with a long e, not 'peace'), a B-17 pilot who was one of the
scores of American and British Commonwealth pilots murdered at Rabaul.
www.warbirdforum.com/prisoner.htm

With the end of the Cold War, SAC went out of business and Pease Air
Force Base was handed over to the local community with the identifier
PSM. Its offical name became Pease International Tradeport.

Yesterday, however, I was flying from Hampton into Maine, and as I
passed PSM I heard pilots calling 'Pease Tower', only to get a
response from a gruff voice that identified itself as 'Portsmouth'.
Rest in peace, Harlan Pease! Your immorality has been repealed.

I flew into Pease a couple of weeks go, and it is hard to get oahold of Pease
tower. Portsmouth tower responds quickly though.


-ash
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