Wurtsmith Air Force Base
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Wurtsmith Air Force Base is a decommissioned United States Air Force base in Iosco County, Michigan. Near Lake Huron, it operated for seventy years, from 1923 until decommissioned in 1993. On January
Oscoda Army Airfield, 1943
First Air Force Emblem
K. I. Sawyer Air Force Base
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K. I. Sawyer Air Force Base is a decommissioned United States Air Force installation in Marquette County, Michigan, south of Marquette. Near the center of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, the base operated
Wurtsmith Air Force Base
…During the Cold War, Wurtsmith was one of three Strategic Air Command (SAC) bases in Michigan with the B-52 bomber, the others (Kincheloe AFB and Sawyer AFB) were in the Upper Peninsula. The base was named in honor of Major General Paul Wurtsmith, commander of SAC's Eighth Air Force, who was killed when his…
Convair F-106 Delta Darts of the 87th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron on the flight line at K. I. Sawyer AFB in 1976
F-101 of the 62d Fighter-Interceptor Squadron on Alert during the 1960s
F-106A (59–0094) of the 87th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron in flight in the early 1980s. Note the Tactical Air Command emblem on the tail, replacing the squadron emblem.
A Boeing B-52H (SN 60-0017), the type assigned to the 410th Bomb Wing at K. I. Sawyer AFB