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The RGV CAF Lands a New Home
We’re connecting the dots… • • Safe travels, Y’all!
The Commemorative Air Force (CAF),
with chapters across the United States, We’re just connecting the dots, was born in Mercedes, Texas, according to David Hughston, a member of the RGV Wing of the CAF.
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It seems like only yesterday we were celebrating the long-awaited return of so many of our friends. The local branch of the Harlingen’s Now, here we CAF are bidding you air gunnery school. The recently found a new home, in a original air base consisted of three farewell and safe travels. All of World-War-II-era hangar at the Port sections: offices and barracks, us at Welcome Home RGV look Isabel/Cameron County Airport forward to your return. Plans are near Bayview, Texas. THE RGV CAF LANDS Built in the earlyFAREWELL 1940s,WINTER the TEXAN SEASON A NEW HOME airport was an auxiliary base to ON PAGE 4 >> CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 >> CONTINUED