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Just across the highway from this point, the United States Army established in 1916 its first operational airbase in the United States. It used several cloth-coated biplanes in its unsuccessful punitive expedition against Mexican General Francisco (Pancho) Villa after his forces raided this area.
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Columbus, New Mexico · United States
