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The facility was renamed Vandenberg Air Force Base on 4 October 1958 in honor of General Hoyt Vandenberg, the Air Force's second Chief of Staff. [ 3 ] The final acquisition of 15,000 acres (6,100 ha) of land for the base occurred in 1966 to accommodate the construction of Space Launch Complex 6 for the Manned Orbiting Laboratory program.
In the early 1930s, an airfield and flight school were established in Goleta, California that would later be named the Santa Barbara Municipal Airport.In 1940, the Civil Aeronautics Authority recommended expanding the airfield in the interest of national defense which led to the city purchasing another 568 acres (2.30 km 2) and building another terminal and filling in the Goleta Slough to make ...
The Vietnam Center and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive collects and preserves the documentary record of the Vietnam War. The Vietnam Center and Archive, part of Texas Tech University , is the nation's largest and most comprehensive collection of information on the Vietnam War.
Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History: Santa Barbara: Santa Barbara: Central Coast: Natural history: Includes dioramas of birds, mammals, and southern California habitats, halls of marine life, geology and Chumash Indian life, art gallery dedicated to antique natural history prints Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History Sea Center: Santa ...
Yanks Air Museum: Chino: San Bernardino: Aviation: Collection of American aircraft including World War II fighters, dive and torpedo bombers Yorba-Slaughter Adobe: Chino: San Bernardino: Historic house: Branch museum of the San Bernardino County Museum, includes post office/general store with an exhibit of agriculture and animal husbandry ...
The Museum of Aviation is hosting an event called Operation Homecoming on April 21 from 1–3:30 p.m. in Warner Robins that will feature former prisoners of war and their homecoming stories ...
An MA bracelet worn by Margaret O'Donnell is on display at the Slater museum's Vietnam exhibit. Jefferson Scott Dotson was one of about 1,600 service members who were missing in action at the end ...
The 129th Air Resupply Squadron was established in April 1955 as a new California Air National Guard unit with no previous United States Air Force history or lineage by the National Guard Bureau. Activated on 4 April at Hayward Municipal Airport , the squadron was assigned to the 129th Air Resupply Group.