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Article: Minnesotans paved the way for Air National Guard in their own state and across the nation
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- May 1, 1997
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CopyrightCopyright National Guard Association of the United States May 1997. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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This is the fifth in our series on the history of the first Air National Guard units.
Seventy-five years ago, three men met in a St. Paul, Minnesota, restaurant and talked about starting a flying unit in the land of 10,000 lakes. It was well before the days of air superiority and the development of air-land battle tactics. But they knew that aircraft would one day be an important part of military operations. It can be arguably said that these men-Lt Col William C. Garis, then assistant adjutant general of Minnesota, I Glenn Harrison, a reporter for the St. Paul Daily News, and Ray S. Miller, a World War I pilotwere important catalysts in the birth of the Air National Guard in the United ...