K. I. Sawyer Air Force Base

United States

K. I. Sawyer Air Force Base connects to 7307 places across 9 topics through 41 Bunkabop connections, with military topics accounting for the bulk of its ties, spanning Cold War intercept missions and Vietnam-era B-52 operations. Northern Michigan and Ohio figure among its strongest regional ties. Sawyer's B-52H crews earned the Mackay Trophy in 1980 for a nonstop around-the-world mission photographing Soviet Navy vessels in the Persian Gulf. The base closed in the mid-1990s, its final B-52s transferred to Minot Air Force Base.