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In 1948, Alamogordo Air Field was renamed Holloman Air Force Base in honor of Colonel George Holloman who was a pioneer in rocket and pilotless aircraft research. Related research branched into the medical field with rocket sled tests and high altitude balloon ascents with animal and human subjects.
World War II brought an Army Air Corps base, San Bernardino Army Air Field, later named after Leland Francis Norton, a San Bernardino native, killed in the crash of his A-20 Havoc over Amiens, France in 1944 after saving his crew.