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USS Oklahoma (BB-37) (1916–1944) – Battleship. Served in World War I. Sunk in the Attack on Pearl Harbor. Sunk by carrier-based aircraft torpedoes, raised in 1943, sank 17 May 1947 in a storm while being towed to San Francisco for scrapping. In 2003, the U.S. Navy recovered part of the mast of the Oklahoma from the bottom of Pearl Harbor.
349th Army Air Forces Base Unit Now: Davis Field; Will Rogers Field, Oklahoma City Joint Use USAAF/Civil Airport 348th Army Air Forces Base Unit Now Will Rogers World Airport (IATA: OKC, ICAO: KOKC) and Will Rogers Air National Guard Base; Woodward AAF Second Air Force until 1944 Sub-field of Will Rogers Field 354th Army Air Forces Base Unit
Vance Air Force Base (IATA: END, ICAO: KEND, FAA LID: END) is a United States Air Force base located in southern Enid, Oklahoma, about 65 mi (105 km) north northwest of Oklahoma City. The base is named after local World War II hero and Medal of Honor recipient, Lieutenant Colonel Leon Robert Vance Jr .
72nd Air Base Wing; 76th Maintenance Wing; 90th Troop Command; 97th Air Mobility Wing; 125th Fighter Squadron; 125th Weather Flight; 137th Special Operations Group; 137th Special Operations Wing; 138th Fighter Wing; 158th Field Artillery Regiment; 160th Field Artillery Regiment (United States) 171st Field Artillery Regiment; 179th Infantry ...
The base has more than 26,000 military and civilian employees and is the largest single-site employer in the state of Oklahoma. [8] The installation covers approx. 9 square miles (23 km 2 ) and has 760 buildings with a building floor space of over 15,200,000 square feet (1,410,000 m 2 ). [ 8 ]
Camp Gruber is an Oklahoma Army National Guard (OKARNG) training facility. It covers a total of 87 square miles (230 km 2).. The base is named after Brigadier General Edmund L. Gruber, a noted artillery officer and the original composer of the U.S. Field Artillery March, the source for the Army's official song, "The Army Goes Rolling Along".
Fort Sill, with 360,000 ppt, Vance Air Force Base, with 329,000 ppt, and Tinker Air Force Base, with 170,000 ppt, are further examples of Oklahoma military installations where the levels of PFAS ...
The U.S. military maintains hundreds of installations, both inside the United States and overseas (with at least 128 military bases located outside of its national territory as of July 2024). [2] According to the U.S. Army, Camp Humphreys in South Korea is the largest overseas base in terms of area. [3]