In 1917, the U.S. Air Service established its largest European training center, the 3d Aviation Instruction Center, about nine miles northwest of the town.
Issodun, located about 100 miles southeast of Paris, was primarily chosen because the surrounding countryside was extremely level and relatively sparsely populated with wide-open spaces for flying fields.
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