HOMESTEAD AIR RESERVE BASE, Florida, Aug. 25 -- The U.S. Air Force Homestead Air Reserve Base (482nd Fighter Wing) issued the following news: By Robert H. Clark, 482nd Fighter Wing Historian Built in 1942, Homestead Army Airfield was destroyed three years later, on Sept. 15, 1945, by a hurricane with winds of 145 miles per hour. HAAF was officially abandoned three months later. In the three years it was open, the airfield trained hundreds of Air Force pilots who then went on to fly the Berlin more PR