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No airfield, camp or base on this ground is affirmed by any installation record, and the test negatived it: the Air Force and Adjutant General installation records as represented in open sources seat no wartime installation in Osceola or Penn Township; the only aviation bodies the build holds for this ground are Mishawaka pilot clubs carrying Osceola post-office boxes — mailing seats, not airfields — and Indiana's list of Second World War Army airfields names no field in St. Joseph County. The checklist's test installation is the valley region's real one, and it is Fort Wayne's whole, printed at boundary size only: Baer Field — Baer Army Air Base, built 1941 at a cost of some $10 million and named for Fort Wayne's Paul Baer, the First World War ace. The 31st Pursuit Group, first equipped with the P-39 Airacobra, was assigned there on 6 December 1941, the day before Pearl Harbor; from March 1943 the field belonged to I Troop Carrier Command as a processing and training base that equipped and trained C-47 Skytrain and C-46 Commando troop-carrier squadrons — over 100,000 personnel passed through its more than 100 structures. Placed on inactive status 31 December 1945, it was turned over to the City of Fort Wayne on 10 March 1946 for one dollar and renamed Fort Wayne Municipal Airport — today's Fort Wayne International Airport, with the Air National Guard station that item 6 carries. None of that installation's history is Osceola's; it prints here because the checklist names it, at the size the boundary rule allows, and Osceola's own installation record remains the tested zero above.
Sources: Fort Wayne Air National Guard Base / Baer Field installation record (1941 construction; the 31st Pursuit Group, 6 December 1941; I Troop Carrier Command from March 1943; inactive 31 December 1945; the 10 March 1946 one-dollar transfer), as published in the Air Force and airport records, read November 2026; "Indiana World War II Army Airfields" (the state field list — no St. Joseph County field); this history (the pilot clubs' mailing seats).