A Brief History of Dow Field
- Item sets
- Dow Air Force Base
- Title
- A Brief History of Dow Field
- Date
- 1946
- Description
- The history of Dow Field dates back to August 19, 1923, when General "Billy" Mitchell and the entire United States Air Force landed on the F. F. Rich farm on the Cooper Road. The bombers and fighter planes were taking part in Mitchell's first maneuvers over the Eastern Seaboard, in the course of which he set out to prove that the entire coast could be defended from the air base at Langley Field, Virginia. This was only a couple of weeks before the famous bombing tests off the Virginia Capes, during which Mitchell's biplanes sank an obsolete battleship with bombs. The fifteen Martin bombers and eleven DeHaviland scout planes which landed at Bangor were, Billy Mitchell told Bangor Rotarians, "the entire Air Force of the United States". Mitchell went on to say: "I see a great future for Bangor as an air base. It is a natural air center, and ideally suited as an airdrome".
- Subject
- Bangor (Me.)--History--20th century
- Dow Air Force Base (Me.)--History
- United States. Air Force. Air Force, 8th
- United States. Army Air Forces. Air Transport Command
- World War, 1939-1945
- Tag
- 8th Air Force
- 43rd Bombardment Group
- 91st Bomb Group
- 92nd Bomb Group
- 93rd Bomb Group
- 97th Bomb Group
- 303rd Bomb Group
- 306th Bomb Group
- 308th Bomb Group
- 332nd Sub-Depot
- Eighth Air Force
- Spatial Coverage
- Bangor (Me.)
- Language
- English
- Is Part Of
- Bangor Public Library Special Collections
- Rights
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