Fairchild Airforce Base

ID: 5577 ~ Source: L83-152.200 The Eastern Washington State Historical Society, Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture. ~ Date: 1950s
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Fairchild Airforce Base

After World War Two the Spokane Army Air Depot would become and important SAC base, and be repurposed into one of the largest Bomber bases in the U.S. during the Cold War

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By Devrick Barnett
The United States military acquisition of McChord Field near Tacoma in 1937 created an additional need for military supply depots in the pacific northwest, and as the likelihood of US participation in the second world war increased it became a more…