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Farragut NTS, Idaho Class 218, ca. 1943. Ground was broken on the 4,160-acre (1,700 ha) naval reservation in March 1942, [3] and its first phase opened in early August; [4] by September the base had a population of 55,000, making it the largest "city" in the state. [5]
Farragut State Park is a public recreation area in the northwest United States, located in northern Idaho at the southern tip of Lake Pend Oreille in the Coeur d'Alene Mountains. [2] The 4,000-acre (1,600 ha) state park is five miles (8 km) east of Athol in Kootenai County , about thirty miles (50 km) northeast of Coeur d'Alene .
An exchange is a type of retail store found on United States military installations worldwide. Once similar to trading posts , today they resemble modern department stores or strip malls . The terminology varies by armed service; some examples include base exchange ( BX ), and post exchange ( PX ), and there are more specific terms for subtypes ...
The Army & Air Force Exchange Service (AAFES, also referred to as The Exchange and post exchange/PX or base exchange/BX) provides goods and services at U.S. Army, Air Force, and Space Force installations worldwide, operating department stores, convenience stores, restaurants, military clothing stores, theaters and more nationwide and in more than 30 countries and four U.S. territories.
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The renovated museum in February 2018. The Idaho Military History Museum, located at Gowen Field near Boise, Idaho, [1] features exhibits relating to every branch of the service and each war in which Idahoans have served from the Spanish–American War onwards; the Farragut Naval Training Station (now Farragut State Park, Idaho's largest), Gowen Field itself, the Medal of Honor exhibit, and ...
In the early morning hours of 11 March 1967, Rear Admiral Howard A. Yeager, Commander, 9th Naval District, was killed by a fire at his quarters at Great Lakes. Admiral Yeager and two hospital corpsman died attempting to save the Admiral's wife, who was under medical care for multiple sclerosis. She also died several days later. [7] [18]
The base eventually expanded to almost 550 acres (220 ha). [5] During World War II the base housed up to 33,000 men, of whom 25,000 were recruits. In the postwar period, the base population dropped to a low of 5,800 men; [6] but the base reached a peak population of 40,000 during the Korean War. [7]