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Fort McClellan, originally Camp McClellan, is a decommissioned United States Army post located adjacent to the city of Anniston, Alabama. During World War II, it was one of the largest U.S. Army installations, training an estimated half-million troops.
In 2015, the Sacramento Bee reported that McClellan Airfield had been designated as a Superfund site, because the Environmental Protection Agency has identified 326 waste areas on the base. [8] Water wells closest to the base in the Rio Linda-Elverta district, have had the highest levels of hexavalent chromium, which is a known carcinogen ...
Map Location of Fort McClellan Army Airfield Fort McClellan Army Airfield is a closed military airfield located 6 mi (9.7 km) north-northeast of Anniston, Alabama , United States.
Map of the small U.S. military installations, ranges and training areas in the continental United States. This is a list of military installations owned or used by the United States Armed Forces both in the United States and around the world.
Official US Army Air Force Training Command photograph of 20 Tuskegee Airmen posing in front of a P-40 at Tuskegee Army Air Field. During World War II, the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) established numerous airfields in Alabama for antisubmarine defense in the Gulf of Mexico and for training pilots and aircrews of AAF fighters and bombers.
The depot is located in Calhoun County, Alabama, 10 miles (16 km) west of Anniston. It covers 25 square miles (65 km 2) of land, or 15,200 acres (6,200 ha). [4] Its northern side is the Pelham Range portion of Fort McClellan.
Fort McClellan Post Cemetery is one of 21 American cemeteries listed by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) as containing interments of prisoners of war (POW) for one, or both, world conflicts. Twenty-one VA cemeteries contain the remains of more than 1,000 World War II POWs; two more also contain the remains of World War I POWs. [4]
McClellan Park sits at an elevation of 69 feet (21 m). [3] The 2010 United States Census reported that McClellan Park's population was 743. It is the site of the former McClellan Air Force Base, closed by the federal government in 2003. McClellan Air Force Base (currently McClellan Park) was named in honor of test pilot Hezekiah McClellan. [5]