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Homestead Air Reserve Base: Hurricane Andrew's 30th Anniversary
August 25, 2022
HOMESTEAD AIR RESERVE BASE, Florida, Aug. 25 -- The U.S. Air Force Homestead Air Reserve Base (482nd Fighter Wing) issued the following news:

By Robert H. Clark, 482nd Fighter Wing Historian

Built in 1942, Homestead Army Airfield was destroyed three years later, on Sept. 15, 1945, by a hurricane with winds of 145 miles per hour.

HAAF was officially abandoned three months later. In the three years it was open, the airfield trained hundreds of Air Force pilot . . .

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