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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jwt708, post: 2025671, member: 32619&quot;]Ok, I&#039;m starting to get my collection scanned. Maybe one day I&#039;ll actually try to photograph them and play with the lighting and settings like the grown up numismatists do so I can have some pretty pictures of circulated aluminum. Anyway, until that day I&#039;m going to go with the scanner. Unfortunately for me, the scanner makes everything look worse than it appears in hand.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/media/mather-1.2131/full" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Up today is Mather Air Force Base. Originally built after the outbreak of WWI near Sacramento, CA and opened on 30 April 1918 as Mills Field. It&#039;s name was changed to Mather Field after Second Lieutenant Carl Mather died in a mid air collision in 1918. Mather Field was used as a flight training base and it&#039;s building were made of wood. The enlisted slept in tents. In 1919 the airfield was closed and in 1923 the base was closed completely. In 1930 it was reopened as a support field for nearby airports and fully restored in 1941. Through WWII and the Cold War Mather operated as a training base, radar station, and in 1958 Mather received a bomber and refueler squadron as part of the nuclear deterrence strategy. There are some interesting stories about the base commander being denied access to a modified B-29 by gunpoint and the mission of the B-52s that were stationed there. Mather Air Force Base was closed in 1993.</p><p><br /></p><p>Cunningham lists this one as CA770f.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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