De Lesseps Field was a small, but important airfield in early aviation in Toronto.
As American fighting men moved inland and took two important airfields, the destroyer provided fire support and patrolled the area.
The same day Marines seized an important military airfield at Bali Dogle, 160 km west of Mogadishu.
Control of the town will give the rebels an important airfield and the route north to Uzbekistan, where American soldiers are stationed 100 miles over the border.
This morning, American soldiers manned the gates to Rinas Airport, Albania's most important airfield.
In the lead-up to war, the RAF implemented a policy of adding concrete runways to important airfields.
The most important airfield for DLH was Berlin Tempelhof.
The companies executed a successful flanking maneuver which left the important airfield in the middle of the island in Allied control after only two days of fighting.
Only a small memorial reminds of the once very important airfield.
It was considered by many in the Iraqi military to be the most important airfield of the Iraqi Air Force.