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Pearson Field’s Role in Oregon Military Aviation

Aerial view of the Portland-Columbia Airport taken in March, 1940, which replaced Portland’s Swan Island Municipal Airport. Just over a year later, on April 13, 1941 Portland Army Air Base was activated at the new Portland-Columbia Airport as the United States sought to improve military readiness. (Courtesy Oregon Historical Society Research Lib., 014394)

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