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During World War II, the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) established numerous air facilities in Louisiana for antisubmarine defense in the Gulf of Mexico and for training pilots and aircrews of USAAF fighters and bombers. The larger facilities were Army Air Bases (AAB) while the Army Air Fields ( AAFld) were lesser facilities.
Selman Army Airfield is an inactive United States Air Force base, approximately 7.7 miles east of Monroe, Louisiana. It was active during World War II as an Army Air Forces Training Command airfield. It was closed on 1 September 1945.
Former Iraqi Air Force hardened "Super Base" (Abandoned 2003) H-2 Air Base; Former Iraqi Air Force hardened "Super Base" (Abandoned 2003) Khan Bani Sad Air Base (Closed 1991) Ruwayshid Air Base (Abandoned 2003) Shaibah Air Base (Shaibah Airport) Under Iraqi civil control, 2006, civil general aviation airport. Safwan Air Base; Site of 1991 ...
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Camp Claiborne was a U.S. Army military camp in the 1930s continuing through World War II located in Rapides Parish in central Louisiana.The camp was under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Eighth Service Command, and included 23,000 acres (93 km²).
Later, during World War II, the United States created a naval base known as "Section Burrwood Naval Base" to control the presence of enemy ships and submarines in the Gulf of Mexico and to monitor traffic entering the river mouth. The construction of the base began in 1941 and the base was in committee on December 15, 1941, with Lieutenant ...
(The Center Square) — The U.S. fiscal 2025 national defense budget includes over $300 million dedicated for Louisiana bases, programs and vessels. The budget, called the Servicemember Quality of ...