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Looking back on the birth of the Air Force
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Dingler, Nancy
[732]
[RETROSPECT-2007-732]
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.
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The day Armijo High School burned down
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Dingler, Nancy
[471]
[RETROSPECT-2002-471]
The fall of 1929 was turning out to be quite a year for the country, and for Fairfield, as well. Black Thursday - Oct. 24 - had brought about the stock market crash. People all over the country, whether they had the financial means or not, had invested in the market.
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Solano has seen many changes
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Dingler, Nancy
[492]
[RETROSPECT-2004-492]
The 1850s brought a major change to Suisun and the surrounding area that would alter the landscape forever. Ship captain, Josiah Wing purchased the "island" of Suisun from Curtis Wilson and Dr. John Baker in 1852, built a wharf and a warehouse, then had his house in San Francisco shipped up the slough and his family sent for. In partnership with John Owens, Captain Wing laid out the town of Suisun. They soon discovered that at low tide, Suisun was not an island, but connected to Fairfield by a strip of land, eventually named Union Ave.
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Army airfield construction fuels housing plans
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Goerke-Shrode, Sabine
[723]
[WAYITWAS-2007-723]
Local cities today struggle to accommodate population increases. Vacaville, Fairfield and Suisun faced similar challenges in the later years of World War II, when construction of the new Fairfield-Suisun Army Air Field brought hundreds of new residents.
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Waterman Park provided answer to wartime housing
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Dingler, Nancy
[486]
[RETROSPECT-2003-486]
Shortly after the beginning of World War II, the Fairfield-Suisun Army Air Field was created. With it came construction workers who were housed in hastily erected "tar paper" barracks. As the war progressed, the mission of the airfield changed from reconnaissance to flying troops and supplies to the "Pacific theater" in our war against the Japanese.
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The intrepid families of Vaca and Pena
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Dingler, Nancy
[472]
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As traffic whizzes by on Interstate 80, few are aware that behind the fence, shaded by trees, still clearly visible on the east side of the freeway, from Fairfield, approaching Vacaville, is perhaps the oldest building in the entire county.
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It was a lavish affair for the 1914 celebration
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Dingler, Nancy
[593]
[RETROSPECT-2005-593]
The July 4, 1914, Independence day celebratory event was topped off by a patriotic concert in Fairfield's ballpark, conducted by Vacaville's Brass Band.
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The case of the murder and the mystery photo
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Dingler, Nancy
[612]
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Dixie Shetler was helping her mother clean out the garage on Great Jones Street in Fairfield and spotted a portfolio in the rafters.
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1944 blast at Benicia arsenal shakes up Solano
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Dingler, Nancy
[462]
[RETROSPECT-2000-462]
Windows shattered and walls cracked the night of July 17, 1944 throughout Solano County. Citizens of Fairfield and Suisun ran into the streets, fearing that the Japanese had penetrated U.S. defenses and were dropping bombs. Speculation ran the gamut from German v-rockets to the arsenal at Benicia blowing up.
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1955 blast at Benicia arsenal shakes up Solano
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Dingler, Nancy
[461]
[RETROSPECT-2000-461]
Windows shattered and walls cracked the night of July 17, 1944 throughout Solano County. Citizens of Fairfield and Suisun ran into the streets, fearing that the Japanese had penetrated U.S. defenses and were dropping bombs. Speculation ran the gamut from German v-rockets to the arsenal at Benicia blowing up.
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