"Cubdriver" usenet AT danford.net wrote in message
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Postwar, the newly minted U.S. Air Force decided to name each of its
airfields after a dead hero from the state in which the field was
located. So when the Strategic Air Command got a base outside
Portsmouth NH in 1956, it was named for Harlan Pease (pronounced
'peas' with a long e, not 'peace'), a B-17 pilot who was one of the
scores of American and British Commonwealth pilots murdered at Rabaul.
www.warbirdforum.com/prisoner.htm


Portsmouth Municipal Airport became Portsmouth Air Force Base on February
1st, 1955. It became Pease Air Force Base on September 7th, 1957.



With the end of the Cold War, SAC went out of business and Pease Air
Force Base was handed over to the local community with the identifier
PSM. Its offical name became Pease International Tradeport.

Yesterday, however, I was flying from Hampton into Maine, and as I
passed PSM I heard pilots calling 'Pease Tower', only to get a
response from a gruff voice that identified itself as 'Portsmouth'.
Rest in peace, Harlan Pease! Your immorality has been repealed.


"Pease Tower" still appears on current documents. Could be just a
controller with issues.