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Billy Mitchell 1879-1936 (B-32)

Brigadier general of the Army Air Service, demonstrated air power by bombing battleships off coast, Sept. 5, 1923. Landing field was here.

Seymour Johnson Field Transferred to U.S. Army Air Force

On June 12, 1942, the U.S. Army Air Force took over Seymour Johnson Field for use as a training center.

Pope Air Force Base Gets Its Name

On April 5, 1919, the Camp Bragg Flying Field was renamed in memory of First Lieutenant Harley Halbert Pope, the first officer assigned to the post.  Pope had been killed when the Curtiss JN-4