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In 1947, the Army declared Fort Harrison to be surplus property, [9] but declined to completely close it due to a lack of adequate training space for the Indiana National Guard. [10] From 1948 to 1950, the post functioned as Benjamin Harrison Air Force Base.
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During World War II, the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) established numerous airfields in Indiana for training pilots and aircrews of USAAF fighters and bombers.. Most of these airfields were under the command of the First Air Force or the Army Air Forces Training Command (AAFTC), a predecessor of the current Air Education and Training Command of the United States Air Force.
Jalibah Southeast Air Base (Abandoned 1991) US Military Designations: Camp/LSA Viper United States Marine Corps Camp, 2003. K-1 Air Base; US Military Designations: COB K-1 United States Army Contingency Operating Base, turned over to Iraqi Army 2011. K-2 Air Base (Bayji AB) Former Iraqi Air Force hardened "Super Base" US Military Designation ...
Installations of the United States Air Force in Indiana (4 P) Pages in category "Military installations in Indiana" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total.
Bakalar Air Force Base is a former U.S. Air Force base located 4.4 miles (7.1 km) northeast of Columbus, Indiana. During World War II , the base was known as Atterbury Air Field and Atterbury Army Air Base (named in memory of Brigadier General William Wallace Atterbury ), but it was renamed Bakalar Air Force Base in 1954 in honor of First ...
The Newport Chemical Depot, previously known as the Wabash River Ordnance Works and the Newport Army Ammunition Plant, was a 6,990-acre (28.3 km 2) bulk chemical storage and destruction facility that was operated by the United States Army. It is located near Newport, in west central Indiana, thirty-two miles north of Terre Haute.
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 ]