The Midwest City Bombers water tower looms high over the original mile of Midwest City, Okla., and Tinker Air Force Base Sept. 16, 2016. Interstate 40 forms a clean border between the city and the North end Tinker Air Force Base. 2017 marks Tinker's 75th Anniversary, named after Maj. Gen. Clarence L. Tinker, an Oklahoma native and part Osage Indian, who lost his life while leading a group of LB-30 bombers on a mission against the Japanese in the region of Wake Island on June 7, 1942. ( Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Lauren Gleason)

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