Merry Christmas
Christmas 1944 George Field: Col Bobzien and 3000 presents for the soldiers The Research Library and History Center will be closed the week of December 21-27.
Lawrence Lore
Dec 25, 20251 min read
Miracle on the Prairie
Bridgeport Leader December 30 th , 1943 Benjamin Joseph Gowen Jr, 30 and wife Ruth Cowen, were instantly killed when a plane from George...
Lawrence Lore
Oct 17, 20252 min read
Map of George Field
1943 From the Visitors Guide to George Field published a year after the activation of the Field. George Field may be approached over a...
Lawrence Lore
Oct 13, 20255 min read
Trailers at George Field
Page 1 of The Lawrence County News , published in Lawrenceville, Illinois on Thursday, July 19th , 1945 "More than 100 house trailers...
Lawrence Lore
Sep 17, 20251 min read
One Amazing Story!
Two things the Historical Society volunteers love, besides homemade baked treats, are a challenge and a great story. C Petersen had asked...
Lawrence Lore
Aug 27, 20255 min read
George Field Civilian Employees
In 1941, the location of George Field (Army Air Force Field) was a sparsely settled stretch of Illinois Prairie in Lawrence County where...
Lawrence Lore
Jul 21, 20252 min read
Accidents at George Field
Flight training was a dangerous operation. There were many planes in the air at once and they did a lot of night flying in all kinds of...
Lawrence Lore
Jun 5, 20251 min read
Aircraft Collision 1945 George Field
(Permission granted to publish by K Edmondson who was in contact with Doug Woodbury’s nephew.) Douglas C. Woodbury was California-cool,...
Lawrence Lore
Nov 3, 20225 min read