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Naval Air Station Hitchcock was a Naval Air Station built by the United States Navy during World War II to accommodate lighter-than-air aircraft, more commonly known as blimps. It was located in the small town of Hitchcock, Texas, about fifteen miles (24 km) northwest of Galveston. Construction began in 1942 and the base was commissioned on May ...
Removal of the last houses took place in the 1980s, and today there are few physical reminders of the project that proved vital to the home front mission during World War II. The Naval Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility marker reads: [10] At the termination of World War II, the United States had the largest naval force of any country in history.
By the end of World War II, more than 35,000 naval aviators had earned their wings there. Corpus Christi provided intermediate flight training in World War II, training naval pilots to fly SNJ, SNV, SNB, OS2U, PBY, and N3N type airplanes. In 1944 it was the largest naval aviation training facility in the world.
Founded in 1942 as Naval Auxiliary Air Station (NAAS) Kingsville, it served nearby Naval Air Station Corpus Christi as an auxiliary field, aiding in training many of the U.S Navy's pilots for World War II. Some of the Kingsville Naval Auxiliary Fields were assigned to NAAS Kingsville. In 1968, the airfield was redesignated as Naval Air Station ...
Naval Air Training Command (NATC), Patuxent River, Maryland; Naval Air Intermediate Training Command, Corpus Christi, Texas. Naval Air Operational Training Command, Jacksonville, Florida; Naval Air Primary Training Command, Fairfax Airport, Kansas City, Kansas; Naval Airship Training Command, Lakehurst, New Jersey
Naval Air Station Chase Field is a former naval air station located in unincorporated Bee County, Texas, near Beeville. [1] It was named for Lieutenant Commander Nathan Brown Chase, [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Naval Aviator #37, who died in 1925 while developing carrier landing techniques for the U.S. Navy .
Naval Air Technical Training Center Ward Island is a decommissioned United States Navy base located on Ward Island, just offshore from Corpus Christi, Texas.During World War II (WWII), this base provided highly classified airborne electronics maintenance training for many thousands of Navy, Marine, Coast Guard, and Royal Air Force personnel.
During a joint U.S. Navy–U.S. Marine simulated close air support exercise near Pauwela, Maui, Territory of Hawaii, the pilot of a U.S. Navy Douglas SBD-5 Dauntless, BuNo 36045 [169] of squadron VB-10, [170] initiates a slight right-hand turn and deploys dive brakes in preparation for a bomb run, but his aircraft is struck by a second VB-10 ...