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This year Arnold Engineering 

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Development Complex celebrates 75 years 

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of American innovation . The tremendous 

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need for space and power made selecting 

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a location for a new aerospace 

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engineering center difficult . 

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Tennessee Senator Kenneth McKellar 

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offered to donate former Army training 

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site Camp Forest to the Air Force . The 

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deal was struck , and construction 

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began in March of 1950 . Make plans to 

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come celebrate the seventy-fifth 

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anniversary of AEDC at the Arnold Air 

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Force Base Open House on June 27 .