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Lake City, Florida: A Sesquicentennial Tribute (2009) H. Morris Williams, Dr. Kevin M. McCarthy











                                                                       Chapter Fourteen: 1940 - 1949




























                                    The Lake City Naval Air Station control tower around 1944









                                                                    The newspaper of the
                                                                      Naval Air Station

















                                         The name of the newspaper, Pee Vee, probably comes from
                                 the fact that the two main airplanes stationed at the Lake City Naval
                                 Air Station were PV-1 Venturas and PV-2 Harpoons. The newspaper
                                 title Pee Vee is a play on the names of the planes: PV=P(ee) V(ee).


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