Bridgeport Leader December 30 th , 1943 Benjamin Joseph Gowen Jr, 30 and wife Ruth Cowen, were instantly killed when a plane from George...

1943 From the Visitors Guide to George Field published a year after the activation of the Field. George Field may be approached over a...

Page 1 of The Lawrence County News , published in Lawrenceville, Illinois on Thursday, July 19th , 1945 "More than 100 house trailers...

Two things the Historical Society volunteers love, besides homemade baked treats, are a challenge and a great story. C Petersen had asked...

In 1941, the location of George Field (Army Air Force Field) was a sparsely settled stretch of Illinois Prairie in Lawrence County where...

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...