The importance of a local World War II-era military base was discussed during a recent lecture at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton. Local writer Sally J. Ling’s “Boca Raton Army Air ...

Boca Raton still houses about 15 “temporary” buildings from World War II. Decisions over whether to preserve or destroy are ...

Ling. Ling is the author of the book, Small Town Big Secrets: Inside the Boca Raton Army Airfield during World War II. She spent years researching the base and the people who lived and worked there.

Back when it was just a small town, around the time of World War II, Boca Raton was the site of a military top secret. Thousands of airmen at the Boca Raton Army Air Field were tasked with ...

One was BocaRaton Army Air Field, a giant radar training base, with more than 100 bombers and about 16,000 troops. After the war, about 20 H-shaped buildings, most of which had been used as base ...

The Boca Raton Army Air Field, a closely guarded secret base, circa 1942. The documentary looks at how pilots made use of the air base to fly planes equipped with a new radar system developed to ...