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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 Your immorality has been repealed. |
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