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"Keep 'em Flying"

其他書名	The Story of the Hobbs Army Air Field
出版	Van Citters, 2008
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=g34LPwAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋Keep 'Em Flying was the national rallying cry picked up by the citizens of Hobbs, Lovington, and their neighboring residents of Lea County in the summer of 1942 as they prepared to welcome the U.S. Army Air Forces to its new training base. It was an important period in our country's history and for the history of Hobbs, a small community that was founded in 1907 to support scattered homesteads in the far southeastern part of the state, and was later caught up in the oil boom that spread like wildfire across the surrounding caprock country. As Hobbs' fortunes were on the upswing in the late 1930s, world events intruded, resulting in the construction and operation of an air base - actually a small town almost half as large as Hobbs itself in those days - that played a short, but significant, role during those uneasy and difficult war years. This is the story of Hobbs Army Air Field. It is a story not only of why the base was built, what it looked like, and how it operated, but also a story of how the servicemen and women stationed there lived, what they and the many civilian employees did to support the air field's mission, and what became of the base after the war - and how all this affected the people of Hobbs and Lovington. It is a story of commitment, patriotism, and compassion that helped make this a unique era in our nation's history.