1940s
Cullus Walker was one of the pilots who won the heart of a Newport girl and returned after the war to spend his life in Jackson County. Movie-star handsome, he could have been a poster boy for the whole war effort. (Courtesy of Jackson County Historical Society,...
1940s
These are a few of the officers and men who gathered at the Newport Airfield to learn to be pilots and maintain airplanes. The sudden arrival of thousands of young men in Jackson County contributed mightily to the nightlife in a county with legalized alcohol sales and...
1940s
These are a few of the officers and men who gathered at the Newport Airfield to learn to be pilots and maintain airplanes. The sudden arrival of thousands of young men in Jackson County contributed mightily to the nightlife in a county with legalized alcohol sales and...
1940s
In November 1942, the Newport Army Airfield sprang into existence after only one year of intensive effort to clear rice fields and marshes, build barracks and training centers, and recruit potential pilots from all branches of the military services to participate in...
