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Naval Hospital Long Beach (1941-1950), now VA Long Beach Healthcare System; Naval Dispensaries; Naval Reserve Aviation Base Long Beach, NRAB Long Beach, at Daugherty Field now Long Beach Airport (1928-1947) Naval Disbursing and Transportation Officer, San Pedro; Small Craft Training Center (SCTC) was on Roosevelt Base, but operated independently.
USS Nevada and Mobile at Long Beach Naval Shipyard, 1990. Long Beach NSY was evaluated under every round of Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) for possible closure since the inception of the BRAC process in 1988. [9] In 1993, California congressmen Horn and Rohrabacher cited the military value of the shipyard [10] in a successful attempt to ...
In 1927, a civilian facility, Allen Field, was established on Terminal Island. The Naval Reserve established a training center at the field and later took complete control, designating the field Naval Air Base San Pedro (also called Reeves Field). [7]: 60 In 1941, the Long Beach Naval Station was located adjacent to the airfield. In 1942, the ...
Some 400 miles north of Long Beach, critics say there are many reasons to be skeptical. The Navy has made similar safety claims about the former Hunters Point Naval Shipyard in San Francisco.
Located on Naval Base Ventura County is the U.S. Navy Seabee Museum, one of fifteen official U.S. Navy museums. [3] The museum is the principal repository for the Seabees’ operational history. The Seabee Archive contains various operational records, battalion histories, manuscripts, oral histories, biographies, and personal papers pertaining ...
The home port was Long Beach Naval Base, now Terminal Island in Los Angeles, California. The U.S. Navy presence was so large that in 1932 nearly 50 ships of the Pacific Fleet anchored in its harbor.
The hospital opened in 1942 as a Naval Hospital in 1942 with 300 beds to serve wounded World War 2 servicemen. By the end of the war in 1945, the Naval Hospital had 1800 beds. Naval Hospital Long Beach also served as a major teaching hospital for the US Navy. On June 1, 1950, the Naval Hospital became VA Hospital Long Beach.
USS Long Beach (CLGN-160/CGN-160/CGN-9) was a nuclear-powered guided missile cruiser in the United States Navy and the world's first nuclear-powered surface combatant. [3] She was the third Navy ship named after the city of Long Beach, California.