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10. O'Hare International Airport (Chicago). Named after Edward “Butch” O'Hare, the pilot who single-handedly turned back nine heavy bombers trying to attack his aircraft carrier, Chicago's O'Hare is one of the most recognizable in the world. O'Hare was America's first WW II ace.
9. Bradley International Airport (Hartford). Hartford, Conn. is actually one of America's busiest, most prosperous cities. It used to be home to the Hartford Whalers, a professional hockey team that plied its trade in the NHL. Bradley is named after a 24-year-old pilot (“Eugene M. Bradley of Antlers, Oklahoma”) who died in a dogfight exercise in August of 1941. Bradley's P-40C fighter plane crashed at Windsor Locks Army Air Field during a training flight, and the field was subsequently named after him.
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