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How did Pease International Tradeport get its name?

April 26, 2017International pease tradeport

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How did Pease International Tradeport get its name?

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Officially active since January 1, 1956, Portsmouth AFB (as it was known then) was formally opened June 30 of that same year. On September 7, 1957 the Air Force dedicated and renamed the base, Pease AFB, in honor of Captain Harl Pease, Jr., a native of Plymouth, New Hampshire. Captain Pease had posthumously earned the Congressional Medal of Honor for his extraordinary heroism as a B17 pilot during a bombing raid against the Japanese in Rabaul, New Britain, in August of 1942. When the base was closed the tradeport renamed the airport Portsmouth International Airport at Pease. More about Pease International Tradeport.