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In the meantime, through the World War I years, the Army and Navy divided North Island between themselves, put up numerous temporary buildings, trained thousands of pilots, air crew and ground crew, and ran flight operations practically every day of the year. Thus over a period of a few short years, San Diego had become at least one of the capitals of military aviation in the United States, with some remarkable advances in numerous related fields to the region's credit. |