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Thole, Lou (1999), Forgotten Fields of America : World War II Bases and Training, Then and Now. Vol. 2. Pictorial Histories Pub. ISBN 1575100517; Military Airfields in World War II – California; Wilson, Art (2008). Runways in the Sand. Blythe, CA: Art Wilson. p. 128. ISBN 978-0615218892. OCLC 316309702. LCC D769.85.C21 B598 2008
Desert Training Center map US Army 1943. The Desert Training Center (DTC), also known as California–Arizona Maneuver Area (CAMA), was a World War II training facility established in the Mojave Desert and Sonoran Desert, largely in Southern California and Western Arizona in 1942. Its mission was to train United States Army and Army Air Forces ...
1941–1995. Merced Army Airfield, November 1942. Castle Air Force Base (Castle AFB, 1941–1995) is a former United States Air Force Strategic Air Command base in California, northeast of Atwater, northwest of Merced, and about 115 miles (185 km) south of Sacramento. The Central Valley base in unincorporated Merced County was closed in 1995 ...
January 15, 1941 – November 1, 1945. Camp Callan was a United States Army anti-aircraft artillery replacement training center that was operational during World War II. It was located on the southern West Coast of the United States, in the La Jolla community of San Diego, California. The facility was closed shortly after the war ended and few ...
Gardner Army Airfield. Coordinates: 35°06′21″N 119°18′21″W. Gardner Army Airfield. Part of Army Air Force Training Command. Kern County, near Taft, California. Aerial photo of the remains of Gardner AAF, 2006. The largest remaining recognizable element of the airfield is the 1,800' concrete and asphalt ramp area, which runs diagonally ...
Camp Stoneman. Coordinates: 38°00′33.5″N 121°53′11.65″W. World War II combat survivors of Company B, 124th Infantry Regiment, 31st Infantry Division, at Camp Stoneman in December 1945. Camp Stoneman was a United States Army facility located in Pittsburg, California. It served as a major troop staging area for and under the command of ...
Camp Roberts, California. Coordinates: 35°46′48″N 120°47′12″W. MEDEVAC at Camp Roberts by a UH-60 of the 140th Aviation Regiment in 2015. Camp Roberts is a California National Guard post in central California, located on both sides of the Salinas River in Monterey and San Luis Obispo counties, [1] now run by the California Army ...
Mirage Auxiliary Airfield (No 3) was used by the Victorville Army Airfield during World War II for training pilots and crews. Mirage Auxiliary Airfield is located just north of California State Route 18 and just north of the city of El Mirage, California , at 34°37′29″N 117°35′59″W / 34.62472°N 117.59972°W / 34.62472 ...