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1537th Army Air Forces Base Unit, 30 September 1944 – 1 August 1945; 75th Air Service Group, 1 May 1947 – 20 September 1948; 367th Air Service Group, 1 May 1947 – 1 November 1949; Guam Air Depot (later Guam Air Materiel Area, Marianas Air Materiel Area) 56th Air Depot Group, Air Technical Service Command, 9 November 1944 – 31 August 1945
Headquarters. Joint Region Marianas' mission is to provide installation management support to all Department of Defense components and tenants through assigned regional installations on Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands in support of training in the Marianas; to act as the interface between the Department of Defense and the civilian community; to ensure compliance with all environmental ...
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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]
During World War II, the United States Army Air Forces fought the Empire of Japan in the Central Pacific Area. As defined by the War Department, this consisted of most of the Pacific Ocean and its islands, excluding the Philippines, Australia, the Netherlands East Indies, the Territory of New Guinea (including the Bismarck Archipelago) the Solomon Islands and areas to the south and east of the ...
Northwest Field (historically Northwest Guam Air Force Base) [1] is a military airfield on the West Pacific island of Guam.Originally built during World War II, Northwest Field was closed as an airfield in 1949 but has been used for other military activity since, including housing a satellite tracking station, air defenses, and being used for training.
Maps of the two Barrigada military facilities in north-central Guam, southeast of Antonio B. Won Pat International Airport. Radio Barrigada, formally Communications Site Barrigada and previously Communications Annex Barrigada, [1] refers to two adjacent U.S. military transmitter facilities located in the villages of Barrigada and Mangilao on the western Pacific territory of Guam.
On December 10, 1898, Guam was ceded to the United States and the complete island of Guam became a Naval Station. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Naval Advance Base Saipan was built after the Battle of Saipan ended on July 9, 1944.