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Naval Air Station Hitchcock was a Naval Air Station built by the United States Navy during World War II to accommodate lighter-than-air aircraft, more commonly known as blimps. It was located in the small town of Hitchcock, Texas, about fifteen miles (24 km) northwest of Galveston. Construction began in 1942 and the base was commissioned on May ...
By the end of World War II, more than 35,000 naval aviators had earned their wings there. Corpus Christi provided intermediate flight training in World War II, training naval pilots to fly SNJ, SNV, SNB, OS2U, PBY, and N3N type airplanes. In 1944 it was the largest naval aviation training facility in the world.
Naval Air Training Command (NATC), Patuxent River, Maryland; Naval Air Intermediate Training Command, Corpus Christi, Texas. Naval Air Operational Training Command, Jacksonville, Florida; Naval Air Primary Training Command, Fairfax Airport, Kansas City, Kansas; Naval Airship Training Command, Lakehurst, New Jersey
Removal of the last houses took place in the 1980s, and today there are few physical reminders of the project that proved vital to the home front mission during World War II. The Naval Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility marker reads: [10] At the termination of World War II, the United States had the largest naval force of any country in history.
Martindale Army Air Field: San Antonio Dyess Air Force Base: Abilene: Goodfellow Air Force Base: San Angelo: Laughlin Air Force Base: Del Rio: Sheppard Air Force Base: Wichita Falls: Fort Cavazos: Killeen: Fort Bliss: El Paso: Fort Wolters: Mineral Wells: Naval Air Station Corpus Christi: Corpus Christi: Naval Air Station Kingsville: Kingsville ...
Naval Air Station Chase Field is a former naval air station located in unincorporated Bee County, Texas, near Beeville. [1] It was named for Lieutenant Commander Nathan Brown Chase, [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Naval Aviator #37, who died in 1925 while developing carrier landing techniques for the U.S. Navy .
The US Navy's main airfields are designated as Naval Air Stations or Naval Air Facilities, with Naval Outlying Landing Fields (NOLF) and Naval Auxiliary Landing Fields (NALF) having a support role. Some airfields are parented by a larger naval installation or are part of a Joint Base operated jointly with another part of the US military .
Major Horace S. Carswell, Jr. (1916–1944) Carswell Air Force Base was named after Medal of Honor recipient Major Horace S. Carswell, Jr., USAAF (1916–1944). Major Carswell was returning from an attack on Japanese shipping in the South China Sea on 26 October 1944 when he attempted to save a crewmember whose parachute had been destroyed by flak.