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A Look at Milwaukee’s Airport in 1940
Photo courtesy of MIlwaukee County Historical Society The airport is aptly named after General William Mitchell, a Milwaukeean who was appointed deputy director of the United States Army Air Service after WWI. Commercial aviation was just getting off the …