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Kincheloe, in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, stands on the site of the former Kincheloe Air Force Base, named for the Michigan test pilot Iven Kincheloe. Because the Soo Locks at Sault Ste. Marie were considered vital to the war effort, an airport was planned at Kinross as early as June 1941, and the government built a small airfield with three runways in a triangle. Designated the Kinross Auxiliary Airfield, it was meant to refuel aircraft bound for Alaska and to defend the locks, though no combat units were based there, and it was inactive from 1945. After the war it was leased to the City of Sault Ste. Marie as a civilian airport, served by Capital Airlines and Trans-Canada Air Lines from 1945 to 1952.

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With the Cold War and the Korean War, the field was reactivated, and on July 1, 1952, Kinross Air Force Base was transferred to the Air Force under the Air Defense Command's 30th Air Division as a fighter-interceptor base protecting Sault Ste. Marie and the upper Great Lakes. The base remained in service until 1977. Its site is now occupied by Chippewa County International Airport, the Kinross Correctional Facility and the community of Kincheloe. Sources Wikipedia: Kincheloe Air Force Base