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FAU honors 9 who died in 1944 World War II air-training crash in Boca

BOCA RATON A generation before Florida Atlantic University opened its main campus in Boca Raton in 1964, students of another sort studied and trained there.
During World War II, thousands of soldiers in the Army Air Corps’ only airborne radar training facility, Boca Raton Army Air Field, occupied what is now the sprawling university campus and a portion of the city’s airport.
On Thursday, a historical marker was unveiled in memory of nine men who died on a routine training mission when their aircraft crashed during takeoff on the future site of the campus.
“These people made some of the great advances in radar detection … and the story is just beginning to be told,” said FAU President John Kelly following Thursday’s dedication of the historic marker. The plaque and others that may follow can help students and others “have that understanding so that we’re not just thankful but we actually understand the sacrifice and commitment and learn what ....

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POST TIME: The 1896 fires that burned downtown West Palm Beach

Readers: Imagine building a bold new city, with great enthusiasm and hope, only to suffer, just two years in, two devastating fires just weeks apart.
On the day after New Year s Day 1896, a fire would burn down half of the downtown business section.
It broke out about 2 p.m. at what then was the center of town, around Narcissus and Banyan streets.
The corner sported a lunch room, a cigar and candy emporium, and saloons, as well as the drug store operated by Palm Beach pioneer Elisha Newton Cap Dimick.
An overheated gasoline stove exploded in the Midway Plaisance Saloon, a large wood building on the south side of Banyan Street. Soon the fire had spread to Narcissus Street, where developer and bottler George Zapf who would serve on the inaugural city commission had opened the Seminole Hotel in 1894. ....

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