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  2. Nevada World War II Army airfields - Wikipedia

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    Air Force Combat Wings Lineage and Honors Histories 1947-1977. Maxwell AFB, Alabama: Office of Air Force History. ISBN 0-912799-12-9. Thole, Lou (1999), Forgotten Fields of America : World War II Bases and Training, Then and Now - Vol. 2. Pictorial Histories Pub . ISBN 1-57510-051-7; Military Airfields in World War II - Nevada

  3. Army Air Forces Gunnery Schools - Wikipedia

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    Las Vegas Army Airfield, Nevada (82d Flying Training Wing): "Flexible Gunnery" training began in January 1942 [4]: 2–3 after flying training had begun on 20 December 1941. [5] Las Vegas Bombing and Gunnery Range. The Rear Gunner (1943), training film with Ronald Reagan and Burgess Meredith. [6] Lowry Bombing and Gunnery Range, Colorado

  4. List of aviation museums - Wikipedia

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    EAA Chapter 1241 Air Museum, Marathon [46] Fantasy of Flight, Polk City; Florida Air Museum, Lakeland; Flying Tigers Warbird Air Museum, Kissimmee [47] Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, Merritt Island; Kissimmee Air Museum, Kissimmee; National Naval Aviation Museum, Pensacola; Sands Space History Center, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station

  5. Las Vegas in the 1940s - Wikipedia

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    During World War II, the Rockwell Field which was a civilian airport of Las Vegas and Clark County since 1926 was closed and the new airport became a military base of the U.S. Army Air Corps from 1941 and functioned as "flexible gunnery training school". This airport was named as McCarran Airport, in honour of Patrick McCarran, the then U.S ...

  6. Nevada during World War II - Wikipedia

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    The Las Vegas and Reno areas were affected most by the increase in population. Las Vegas was just a town of 8,422 people in 1940. By 1950 it had grown to 24,624, a gain of 192.4%. Reno went from a population of 21,317 in 1940 to 32,492 in 1950. [1] [4] Mining and the military industries were not the only industries to benefit from the war.

  7. Inside LACMA's plans to share its collection with a new Las ...

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    Early this year the Los Angeles County Museum of Art announced a partnership with the planned Las Vegas Museum of Art. LACMA's Michael Govan and LVMA director Heather Harmon discuss the details of ...

  8. List of museums in Nevada - Wikipedia

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    Guinness World Records Museum, Las Vegas [13] Hispanic Museum of Nevada, Las Vegas, closed in 2017 [14] Houdini's Museum, Las Vegas, closed in 2004 [15] [16] King Tut Exhibit, formerly at the Luxor, Las Vegas [17] Las Vegas Art Museum, Las Vegas, closed in 2009. Liberace Museum, Las Vegas, closed in 2010, collections on traveling display

  9. Accidents and incidents involving the North American P-51 ...

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    The P-51 Mustang was first flown in 1940, and it went on to become one of the most iconic USAAF fighter aircraft of World War II. The type was rendered obsolete as a fighter with the beginning of the Jet Age, but it continued to serve in the Korean War in the ground attack role. Many P-51s were sold as surplus, becoming a popular mount for air ...

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