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The Bombing and Gunnery Range Detachment was "the first organization to arrive at what [became] the Tonopah Army Air Field" after activating "1 July 1942 at Muroc Lake, California" (the commander, Lt. Col. F.D. Gore arrived 2 July.) [13] Ready for occupancy in July, the airbase included runways, barracks, mess halls and a hospital when finally occupied and when opened, was a sub-base of March ...
Jalibah Southeast Air Base (Abandoned 1991) US Military Designations: Camp/LSA Viper United States Marine Corps Camp, 2003. K-1 Air Base; US Military Designations: COB K-1 United States Army Contingency Operating Base, turned over to Iraqi Army 2011. K-2 Air Base (Bayji AB) Former Iraqi Air Force hardened "Super Base" US Military Designation ...
Airfields of the United States Army Air Forces in Nevada (8 P) Pages in category "Military installations in Nevada" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total.
Nevada Camp Williston; New Jersey Camp Charles Wood; Camp Coles; Camp Edison; Camp Kilmer; Fort Hancock; Fort Monmouth; New Mexico Camp Cody; Fort Union; New York Camp Shanks; Camp Upton; Fort Niagara; Fort Totten; Madison Barracks; Plattsburgh Barracks; Seneca Army Depot; Fort Tilden; Fort Schuyler; Floyd Bennett Field; Fort Jay; Bush Army ...
Hawthorne Army Depot surrounds the small town of Hawthorne, Nevada, where most of its employees reside.Before the facility became contractor-operated, it was staffed primarily by civil service workers and military personnel, who were housed on government-owned property neighboring Hawthorne, including the now-abandoned town of Babbitt and military housing known as Schweer Drive.
During World War II, the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) established numerous airfields in Nevada for training pilots and aircrews of USAAF fighters and bombers.. Most of these airfields were under the command of Fourth Air Force or the Army Air Forces Training Command (AAFTC) (A predecessor of the current-day United States Air Force Air Education and Training Command).
Airfields of the United States Army Air Forces in Nevada (8 P) Pages in category "Formerly Used Defense Sites in Nevada" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total.
The Nellis Air Force Base Complex [1] (Nellis AFB complex, [2] [3] NAFB Complex [1]) is the southern Nevada military region of federal facilities and lands, e.g., currently and formerly used for military and associated testing and training such as Atomic Energy Commission atmospheric nuclear detonations of the Cold War.