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With the advent of World War II, the lease was canceled and the installation reverted to complete use by the military as the New Orleans Port of Embarkation under the United States Army Transportation Corps. In 1955, the tract of land was known as the New Orleans Army Terminal. In 1965 the name was changed to the New Orleans Army Base.
The camp was opened in 1942 as the New Orleans Army Air Base. The site was across the Inner Harbor Navigation Canal from the New Orleans Municipal Airport . In 1947 a formal ceremony was held at the New Orleans Port of Embarkation Personnel Center to rename the base after World War II Medal of Honor recipient Leroy Johnson . [ 1 ]
The transportation motor transport battalion is designed to support the movement of personnel and matériel for divisions and corps in an area of operation. It is normally attached to a sustainment brigade and consists of a headquarters and headquarters detachment providing command and control of between three and seven motor transport ...
Robert F. Broussard, United States Senator from Louisiana, urged Quartermaster General of the United States Army Henry Granville Sharpe to consider New Orleans as a location for a new supply depot to equip Gulf Coast military regiments that had formed in response to the 1917 outbreak of World War I. [2] Construction was completed in 1919, making it one of thirteen Army supply depots in the ...
Airfields of the United States Army Air Forces in Louisiana (11 P) Pages in category "Military installations in Louisiana" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total.
The Army veteran who drove a truck through a crowd in New Orleans and the Special Forces master sergeant who exploded a Tesla Cybertruck in Las Vegas last week briefly overlapped in their service ...
The unit was converted, reorganized, and redesignated 7 November 1942 as the 12th Port. The unit was inactivated 4 January 1946 at Camp Kilmer, New Jersey and later redesignated 3 November 1948 in New Orleans, Louisiana, as the 377th Transportation Major Port. On 11 September 1950 the 377th was called to Camp Kilmer, New Jersey.
Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base New Orleans is a base of the United States military located in Belle Chasse, unincorporated Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, United States. [2] NAS JRB New Orleans is home to a Navy Reserve aggressor squadron and a fleet logistics support squadron, the 159th Fighter Wing (159 FW) of the Louisiana Air National ...