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George Air Force Base was a United States Air Force base located within the city limits, 8 miles northwest, of central Victorville, California, about 75 miles northeast of Los Angeles, California. Established by the United States Army Air Corps as an Advanced Flying School in June 1941, it was closed at the end of World War II .
George Air Force Base in 1994. The federal government was responsible for helping the Victor Valley recover from the closure of George Air Force Base in 1992. The conversion of the former George Air Force Base to SCLA was designed to provide major corporations with logistics needs, access to a global intermodal logistics gateway to the Western United States.
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Redesignated as Webb Air Force Base: Biggs Air Force Base: El Paso: Texas: 1966 Realigned to the US Army as Biggs Army Airfield in 1973 Blytheville Air Force Base: Blytheville: Arkansas: 1988 Redesignated as Eaker Air Force Base: Bolling Air Force Base: Southeast: Washington, D.C. 2010 Realigned as part of Joint Base Anacostia–Bolling [3 ...
After the war the Victorville Army Airfield was renamed George Air Force Base on January 13, 1948. The airfields were built in 1941 by the United States Army Air Corps just before the war. Victorville Army Airfield covered 2,200-acre in the Mojave Desert. The US Army held a groundbreaking ceremony on 12 July 1941.
A former Air Force base responsible for potentially exposing hundreds of thousands to toxic chemicals is now a desolate wasteland that has remained abandoned in California for 32 years.
Maurer, Maurer (1983). Air Force Combat Units Of World War II. Maxwell AFB, Alabama: Office of Air Force History. ISBN 0-89201-092-4. Ravenstein, Charles A. (1984). Air Force Combat Wings Lineage and Honors Histories 1947–1977. Maxwell AFB, Alabama: Office of Air Force History. ISBN 0-912799-12-9. Radomes.org Los Angeles Air Defense Sector
Jun–Oct 1948. Replaced 731st Air Force Base Unit. Redesignated 1907th AACS Squadron. 102d AACS Squadron: McChord AFB, WA: Jun–Oct 1948. Replaced 732d Air Force Base Unit. Redesignated 1905th AACS Squadron. 103d AACS Squadron: Wright-Patterson AFB, OH: Jun–Oct 1948. Replaced 733d Air Force Base Unit. Redesignated 1914th AACS Squadron ...