Dale Johnson standing by a single engine plane at William B. Heilig Field, Scottsbluff, NE.

ID: 349 ~ Source: Nebraska State Historical Society, RG2528.PH000006-000029 ~ Date: 1960 circa
This file appears in: Scottsbluff Army Airfield
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Dale Johnson standing by a single engine plane at William B. Heilig Field, Scottsbluff, NE.

This file appears in: Scottsbluff Army Airfield

By The Explore Nebraska History team
During World War II, the U.S. Army Air Forces operated a satellite airfield at this site. In the fall of 1942 twenty-eight farms were vacated so construction could begin. Some 600,000 cubic yards of…