Sampson Air Force Base (N.Y.)
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found: The Airman, Sampson Air Force Base, New York, 1954:title page (Sampson Air Force Base) p. 5-6 (the day after Armistice Day 1950, Sampson found its present destiny with the Air Force when the Navy transferred the naval training station to the Air Force; named for Admiral William T. Sampson, Spanish American War Atlantic Fleet Commander)
found: Wikipedia, Sept. 9, 2014:Sampson Air Force Base page (Samson Air Force Base is a closed United States military facility, last used by the United States Air Force Air Training Command as a basic military training center. It was closed in 1956 and put into caretaker status; originally established in 1942 as the United States Naval Training Station Sampson. With the outbreak of the Korean War, the US Air Force took an interest in the formal naval station and custody of the property was transferred to the Air Force in 1950 and named Sampson Air Force Base; Sampson AFB)
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2014-09-29: new
2014-09-30: revised
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