492 RETROSPECT-2007-732 eng Dingler, Nancy Looking back on the birth of the Air Force 2007-09-22 In 1942, Fairfield was a sleepy agricultural dot on the landscape. Ragsdale airfield, as it first was known, was originally planned to be temporary. However, the mission changed as things do in wartime and the airfield became the Fairfield-Suisun Army Air Base. vacahc@gmail.com 732 87565441151 Publication/Article CaVaHC http://www.solanoarticles.com/history/index.php/vhcdb/732/ Read Article http://www.solanohistory.net/articles/732/732.1.pdf PDF Document