Sugar cane, origin of the Base's nickname, "Canepatch", was everywhere when the original troops, shown above looking things over for the first time, arrived in late 1939. Vast construction programs soon changed the scenery.

From aeronaut Vol. 3, Num. 7, October 1945
Courtesy of Gerry Giles.

3/1/2002

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