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The future site of an Army Air Corps basic flying school near Sumter, S.C., May 28, 1941. The site was officially leased to the U.S. War Department on May 17, 1941, for a period of 99 years at the sum of $1 per year. (Courtesy photo)


Looking back on seven decades of difference

The future site of an Army Air Corps basic flying school near Sumter, S.C., May 28, 1941. The site was officially leased to the U.S. War Department on May 17, 1941, for a period of 99 years at the sum of $1 per year. (Courtesy photo)

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