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The City of Kansas City built Grandview Airport (IATA code GVW) in 1941. During World War II, the United States Army Air Forces I Troop Carrier Command built a facility on part of the airfield in 1944 which was used as a sub-base for Sedalia AAF (later Whiteman Air Force Base) for overflow traffic and training uses.
445th Army Air Force Base Unit Was: Malden Air Base (1951–1960) USAF Contract Flight Training Now: Malden Regional Airport (IATA: MAW, ICAO: KMAW) Sedalia Army Airfield, Knob Noster; I Troop Carrier Command 405th Army Air Force Base Unit Was: Sedalia Air Force Auxiliary Field (1948–1951) Was: Sedalia Air Force Base (1951–1955)
Fort Leonard Wood is a U.S. Army training installation located in the Missouri Ozarks.The main gate is located on the southern boundary of the city of St. Robert.The post was created in December 1940 and named in honor of General Leonard Wood (former Chief of Staff) in January 1941.
The Missouri Civil War Museum opened in the park in June 2013 after an eleven-year historic renovation of the 1905 Post Exchange and Gymnasium Building, which is on the National Register of Historic Places. [9] The museum is the largest Civil War museum in the state of Missouri with over 22,000 square feet and two floors of exhibits.
Mather Air Force Base; McClellan Air Force Base; Presidio of San Francisco; Sacramento Army Depot; San Carlos War Dog Training Center; Colorado Fitzsimons Army Medical Center; Camp Hale; Fort Garland; Camp George West Historic District COANG; Rocky Mountain Arsenal; District of Columbia – Washington, D.C. Camp Leach; Walter Reed Army Medical ...
Camp Crowder was a military installation named in honor of Major General Enoch H. Crowder, a native Missourian who was the provost marshal of the United States during World War I and author of the Selective Service Act of 1917. The camp, located south of Neosho, Missouri in an area originally named Pools Prairie, [1] was established in 1941.
In 1948, the base was conveyed by the Air Force back to the City of Saint Joseph, Missouri with the exception of 142 acres (0.57 km 2) set aside for use by the Air National Guard organized in 1947. Some of the old temporary World War II era barracks were still present on the base until the Great Flood of 1993 when they were destroyed.
The new railroad line was built by the Missouri Pacific Railroad. The base was officially opened on 6 August 1942. On 12 November 1942, the name was changed to Sedalia Army Air Field. [4] After the end of World War II, operations at the airfield declined, and many of the buildings were abandoned. In December 1947, the base was put on inactive ...