Photos: from the chapter "Sandy Strips and Airports, Dumps and Cessnas" (chapter 4)
WWII and the newly created Eglin Air Force Base and Destin's first tiny air field seemed to have ushered in the age of commercial flight for Destin. The first privately owned airplane belonged to a boat captain and his dad. Read all about it and the military connection in Old Destin Through the Eyes of a Child, the book, by Captain Ben Marler. Also war history buffs will enjoy chapter 27, The Doolittle Raiders and the Marathon, which will buzz you back...to 1942.
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