In August 2014, the Klenawicus family, friends, pilots, then-Supervisor James Dougherty and members of the Shelter Island Historical Society, partnered with the Shelter Island Pilots Association to create a a new marker of historical events that have occurred at Klenawicus Field. (Credit: Beverlea Walz)
After Island historian Edward Shillingburg was asked to take part in a presentation at the Shelter Island Historical Society in August, a document in the Society’s archives surfaced on the history of the Klenawicus Airfield, and other early stories of Island aviation.
The Historical Society’s event later this summer is to consist of several people giving short reports on the Island’s preserved properties, and Mr. Shillingburg drew the Klenawicus straw. “The idea is to bring to the public’s attention the Island’s open space program,” Mr. Shillingburg said. “To answer questions of, ‘What are they?’ ‘Where are they?’”
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Casper museum preserves memories, stories of Wyoming veterans By Dan Cepeda on May 31, 2021
An unnamed B-24 crew poses at the Army Air Base during WWII near Casper. (Courtesy CAAB Collection, WVMM, via Facebook)
CASPER, Wyo. – In 1941, the land about nine miles west of Casper looked like most of the areas outside of city limits – miles of flat , wind-swept prairie covered in sage, migrating antelope and numerous other small critters.
That changed with breakneck speed the following year, when the United States Army Airforce commissioned the land while building scores of new training facilities around the country.
“They started construction in in May (1942), and by mid-August the base was mostly complete,” says John Woodward, director of the Wyoming Veterans Museum located near the Natrona County International Airport.
The Air Force typically names bases after Airmen killed in the line of duty. Here is a brief look at the namesakes of AFLCMC bases on this Memorial Day. ,