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The Bombing and Gunnery Range Detachment was "the first organization to arrive at what [became] the Tonopah Army Air Field" after activating "1 July 1942 at Muroc Lake, California" (the commander, Lt. Col. F.D. Gore arrived 2 July.) [13] Ready for occupancy in July, the airbase included runways, barracks, mess halls and a hospital when finally occupied and when opened, was a sub-base of March ...
The Tonopah Test Range (TTR, also designated as Area 52) is a highly classified, restricted military installation of the United States Department of Defense, and United States Department of Energy (nuclear stockpile stewardship) located about 30 miles (48 km) southeast of Tonopah, Nevada.
On June 28, 1949, the "Gunnery Range of the Tonopah Air Force Base" had about 30 sq mi (78 km 2) [19] and after the 1949 Las Vegas Air Force Base was renamed on April 30, 1950, a United States Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) committee selected the "Las Vegas Bombing and Gunnery Range" for a nuclear test site on December 12, 1950. [20]
Nellis Air Force Base Complex; Nevada Test and Training Range; T. Tonopah Air Force Base; Tonopah Air Force Station; Tonopah Test Range; Tonopah Test Range Airport; W.
Former Iraqi Air Force hardened "Super Base" Location of Salman Pak facility biological and chemical weapons site. Tal Ashtah Air Base; US Military Designation: FOB Grant, LSA Adder United States Army facility closed 2004, now abandoned. Tall Afar Air Base; US Military Designation: FOB Tall Afar Active United States Army facility. Tallil Air Base
Tonopah Bombing Range was the original southern Nevada military area designated in 1940 (cf. the current Nevada Test and Training Range) and may refer to: Tonopah General Range , the smaller 1941 area designated when the "Tonopah Gunnery and Bombing Range" was divided (cf. Las Vegas General Area)
The number of active duty Air Force Bases within the United States rose from 115 in 1947 to peak at 162 in 1956 before declining to 69 in 2003 and 59 in 2020. This change reflects a Cold War expansion, retirement of much of the strategic bomber force, and the post–Cold War draw-down.
Tonopah Basin, Central Basin and Range ecoregions around the Tonopah Playas; Tonopah Bombing Range, the 1940 World War II designation of the military region Tonopah Test Range, a nuclear test area SW of the Tonopah Bombing Range; Tonopah Air Force Base, the 1949 main base for the bombing range; Tonopah Army Air Field, the main base's name in ...