This marker interprets a World War II training base whose long concrete runways hosted fighter and bomber crews. The airfield also participated in aircraft-camouflage experiments before closing after the war, leaving an unusual military layer in the Sandhills landscape.
Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.
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Source: history.nebraska.gov/marker-monday-ainsworth-army-air-field/