Government Field|Dayton, Ohio in The Town (Location)

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Airfield
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2445
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894
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This "testing field" is the airfield where young Bayard Sartoris "finally got himself killed," as Charles Mallison puts it, "testing an aeroplane" that "nobody else would fly" (125). The event is described in detail at the end of Flags in the Dust.

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Continuous
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Airfield

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