A U.S. air base on the island of Praia da Vitoria in the Azores archipelago off the coast of Portugal is downsizing. WSJ’s Patricia Kowsmann looks at the impact this will have on the community.

and several congressmen from the House Intelligence Committee as it descended toward the single runway at Lajes Field, a sleepy U.S. Air Force base perched along a windswept Azores island 1,000 ...