World War II veteran retired Maj. Gen. Frank Nye, here with his wife Nina, was honored at the 75th Anniversary banquet April 16. About 500 people attended the banquet at the New Mexico Air National Guard’s 150th Special Operations Wing hangar. The banquet had a 1940s theme, to remember the opening of Albuquerque Army Air Base on Jan. 7, 1941. Nye was in bomber training here in 1942. (Courtesy photo)