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Wurtsmith Air Force Base was used to train Free French pilots in WWII and to house nuclear-armed B-52 bombers during the Cold War. See also Michigan World War II Army Airfields. Michigan's northern location made it a good site for several Cold War air bases, especially Strategic Air Command B-52 / KC-135 bases. Numerous other sites around the ...
Camp Kiwanis located 3.5 miles (5.6 km) east of Mason, Michigan, on M-36 at Diamond Road. The camp contains 85 acres (340,000 m 2), 55 acres (220,000 m 2) of which are wooded. Camp Kiwanis is open year-round for camping, hiking, sledding and outdoor fun. Camp facilities can sleep 107 people indoors, or 300 outdoors.
Fort Custer Training Center - Augusta, MI; Military Training Center - Grayling, MI; 1208th Engineering Survey & Design Team - Lansing, MI; 1999th AQ Detachment Members of the Michigan National Guard during the Latvia Day parade in Riga, Latvia, 18 November 2014; 1146th Judge Advocate General Detachment - Lansing, MI; Detachment 1, 505th Judge ...
The Dort Financial Center [2] (originally IMA Sports Arena [3] and formerly Perani Arena and Event Center [4]) is a sports, entertainment and convention venue located in Flint, Michigan, United States. It opened in 1969 and is the home of the Flint Firebirds who play in the Ontario Hockey League.
Founded in 1904 by the State YMCA of Michigan, the camp has operated continuously as a summer camp for boys between 4th and 11th grades. Buildings on the boys camp have been named for generous donors and past campers including Bonbright Lodge given by a Flint Industrialist, the Dow Building and the Stanley S. Kresge Lodge.
The regiment was called up to perform riot control during an automobile workers' strike in Flint, 13 January–16 February 1937. It conducted annual summer training most years at Camp Grayling, Michigan, from 1922–39, and conducted joint summer training at Camp Grayling with the 85th Division's 338th Infantry Regiment in 1928.
The 119th Field Artillery conducted joint summer training at Camp Grayling, Michigan with the 329th Field Artillery [81] in 1928, 1932 and 1937 and with the 328th Field Artillery [82] in 1929 and 1936. [83] The 119th Field Artillery participated in Second Army Maneuvers held out of Camp Custer, Michigan from 8 to 22 August 1936. [84]
The camp was constructed in 1921 by the Van Platen - Fox Lumber Company, who used it as a base for harvesting hardwoods. Van Platen - Fox used the camp until 1935. The University of Michigan used the camp, rechristed Camp Filbert Roth, as a summer training camp for forestry students from 1937 - 1988. All the buildings have been demolished.