During the war, the people of Woodland and Yolo County bought enough war bonds to pay for a pair of B-17s, which carried the names of the sponsoring communities on their noses. Yolo County Archives, Urain Collection/Courtesy photo

Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle, 1944. Courtesy photo

Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle wires a Japanese medal to a bomb on the deck of the USS Hornet before his risky raid on Tokyo in April 1942. Courtesy photo

A recept from the War Assets Corporation for the Beoshanz family's property, which was moved for construction of a military air strip. Courtesy photo

This 1940s map shows the location of the Davis Winters Airstrip, featuring a long runway and tie-down pads for the bombers. Courtesy photo

Ed Beoshanz and his wife Carol look over old photos of the family homestead, which was moved in 1942 to make room for a military airstrip between County Roads 95 and 96 northwest of Davis. Sue Cockrell/Enterprise photo

Ed Beoshanz, a neighbor of the Yolo County Airport, looks at blocks surrounding a flagpole that trace the history of the wartime planes that once called the air strip home. Sue Cockrell/Enterprise photo

Imagine the days during World War II when B-25 bombers like this one were tied up at the Davis Winters Airstrip — what is now known as the Yolo County Airport — which was built in 1941-42 as an emergency landing field for military aircraft and for training flights. The airstrip — which was used for training by Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle and his bomber group as they prepared for their raid on Tokyo — was closed after the war and later turned over to the local government by the War Assets Corporation. Sue Cockrell/Enterprise photo illustration