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Mitchel Air Force Base, also known as Mitchel Field, was a United States Air Force base located on the Hempstead Plains of Long Island, New York, United States.Established in 1918 as Hazelhurst Aviation Field #2, the facility was renamed later that year as Mitchel Field in honor of former New York City Mayor John Purroy Mitchel, who was killed while training for the Air Service in Louisiana.
The team played their games at the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum, on another part of Mitchel Field. In 2013 the New York Cosmos opened a new practice facility for the team with remodeled soccer fields within the large site, [8] and in 2019 the club announced that they would play their regular-season games at the complex. [9]
It is located on land once part of Mitchel Air Force Base which, together with nearby Roosevelt Field and other airfields on the Hempstead Plains, was the site of many historic flights. So many seminal flights had occurred in the area that, by the mid-1920s, the cluster of airfields was already dubbed the "Cradle of Aviation", [ 1 ] the origin ...
Hazelhurst Field No. 2 was renamed Mitchel Field on July 16, 1918, to commemorate John Purroy Mitchel, the former mayor of New York killed in a flying accident on July 6, 1918, while training with the U.S. Air Service in Louisiana. On September 24, 1918, the Army dedicated the eastern portion of Hazelhurst Field No. 1 as Roosevelt Field. [3]
The Hempstead Plains Aerodrome was renamed to in 1917 to Hazelhurst Field, and again in 1918 to Roosevelt Field on the eastern half, and Curtiss Field to the west. [3] These facilities and Mitchel Field provided the eastern United States' hub of private, and even military, air activity.
The Concentration Center was under the jurisdiction of the Operations Section, Department of Military Aeronautics. It was later re-designated as the Air Service Depot from October 1918 to April 1919 when it was consolidated with Hazelhurst Field and made part of Mitchel Field on 5 April 1919.
The 325th was first activated as the 325th Fighter Group at Mitchel Field, New York in August 1942 with the 317th, [6] 318th, [7] and 319th Fighter Squadrons [8] assigned. It trained at Hillsgrove Army Air Field with Curtiss P-40 Warhawk aircraft [ 9 ] before moving to North Africa by ship and transport planes in January through February 1943.
One of the four original numbered air forces, First Air Force was activated as the Northeast Air District of the GHQ Air Force on 18 December 1940, at Mitchel Field, Long Island, New York. It was redesignated First Air Force on 9 April 1941 with a mission for the defense of the Northeast and Great Lakes regions of the United States.