The volunteers who operate Minter Field Air Museum in Shafter have always been proud of the local World War II history they preserve and share with visitors. But for many
The mission to preserve Kern County's military history is personal for museum board chair Ronald Pierce, who spent his childhood at the Shafter airfield where his father worked.
Ron Pierce was just a boy of 7 or 8 when he began seeing numerous Vultee BT-13 aircraft soaring across the skies over the farm fields and neighborhoods of his