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In January 1941 the U.S. War Department issued orders to consider potential sites for a new U.S. Army training center in Indiana.After the Hurd Engineering Company surveyed an estimated 50,000 acres (200 km 2), an area was selected for the camp in south-central Indiana, approximately 30 miles (48 km) south of Indianapolis, 12 miles (19 km) north of Columbus, and 4 miles (6.4 km) west of Edinburgh.
Installations of the United States Air Force in Indiana (4 P) Pages in category "Military installations in Indiana" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total.
Established as a U.S. Army Air Forces installation during World War II, the first large contingent of military personnel arrived at the new airfield in February 1943.The airfield was named Atterbury Army Airfield in April 1943 and renamed Atterbury Army Air Base in June 1943, [11] in honor of Brigadier General William Wallace Atterbury, a New Albany, Indiana, native and Yale University ...
Residents living within the area of planned site were given 30 to 120 days to vacate the land. Construction began immediately, and the first round was fired at U.S. Army JPG on May 10, 1941. [1] [2] In April 1953, JPG reached a pinnacle of employment and activity, with 1,774 employees and a production of 175,000 rounds fired monthly. [3]
The Research and Analysis Center. The Research and Analysis Center (TRAC), formerly the TRADOC Analysis Center, is an analysis agency of the United States Army.TRAC conducts research on potential military operations worldwide to inform decisions about the most challenging issues facing the Army and the Department of Defense (DoD).
The Borden Institute is a U.S. Army “Center of Excellence in Military Medical Research and Education”. In 1987, U.S. Army Colonel Russ Zajtchuk conceived the idea for a “Center of Excellence in Military Medical Research and Education,” under the Army's Office of The Surgeon General (OTSG). The center was soon made a reality, largely ...
ARL funded as many as 10 new research centers as part of FedLab and incorporated the activities of three existing university centers of excellence: the Army High Performance Computing Research Center at the University of Minnesota, the Information Sciences Center at Clark Atlanta University, and the Institute for Advanced Technology at the ...
Newport was founded during World War II to produce the military high explosive RDX. [1] The site is 6,990 acres (28.3 km 2), located in west central Indiana, near the Wabash River, two miles south of Newport, Indiana, and thirty-two miles north of Terre Haute. [2]