California World War II Army Airfields

During World War II, the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) established numerous airfields in California for training pilots and aircrews of USAAF fighters and bombers. ^[1]

Adamson Landing Field

Adamson Landing Field is a closed airport located 1.8 mi south-southeast of Olancha, California.

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Air Education and Training Command

Air Education and Training Command (AETC) was established 1 July 1993, with the realignment of Air Training Command and Air University.

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Air Training Command

Air Training Command (ATC) is a former United States Air Force (USAF) Major Command designation.

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Air Transport Command

Air Transport Command (ATC) was a United States Air Force unit that was created during World War II as the strategic airlift component of the United States Army Air Forces.

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Allan Hancock College

Allan Hancock College is a California public community college located in Santa Maria in northern Santa Barbara County.

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Amedee Army Airfield

Amedee Army Airfield is a military use airport located nine nautical miles (17 km) north of the central business district of Herlong, in Lassen County, California, United States.

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Army Air Forces Training Command

The US Army Air Forces in WWII had major subordinate Commands below the Air Staff level.

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Bakersfield, California

Bakersfield is a city in and the county seat of Kern County, California, United States.

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Banning Municipal Airport

Banning Municipal Airport is a city-owned airport a mile southeast of Banning, in Riverside County, California.

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Barstow-Daggett Airport

Barstow-Daggett Airport is a county-owned public airport in San Bernardino County, California.

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Blythe Airport

Blythe Airport is seven miles west of Blythe, in Riverside County, California.

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Blythe is a city in Riverside County, California, United States, in the Palo Verde Valley of the Lower Colorado River Valley region, an agricultural area and part of the Colorado Desert along the Colorado River.

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Buchanan Field Airport

Buchanan Field Airport is a county-owned public-use airport in Contra Costa County, California, United States, located one mile (1.6 km) west of the center of Concord and east of the unincorporated community of Pacheco.

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Burbank, California

Burbank is a city in Los Angeles County in Southern California, United States, northwest of downtown Los Angeles.

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California

California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States.

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Camarillo Airport

Camarillo Airport is a public airport located three miles (5 km) west of the central business district of Camarillo, a city in Ventura County, California, United States.

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Castle Air Force Base

Castle Air Force Base (1941–1995) is a former United States Air Force Strategic Air Command base located northeast of Atwater, northwest of Merced and about 115 miles (185 km) south of Sacramento, California.

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Castle Airport

Castle Airport is a public airport eight miles northwest of Merced, in Merced County, California.

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Catalina Airport

Catalina Airport is a privately owned airport located six miles (10 km) northwest of the central business district of Avalon, California in the middle of Catalina Island.

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Charles M. Schulz–Sonoma County Airport

Charles M. Schulz–Sonoma County Airport is 7 miles (11 km) northwest of downtown Santa Rosa, in Sonoma County, California.

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Chico Municipal Airport

Chico Municipal Airport, often called CMA, is four miles (6 km) north of Chico, in Butte County, California.

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Chico, California

Chico is the most populous city in Butte County, California, United States.

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Chiriaco Summit Airport

Chiriaco Summit Airport is a county-owned public-use airport located one nautical mile (1.85 km) northeast of the central business district of Chiriaco Summit, in Riverside County, California, United States.

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Civil Air Patrol

The Civil Air Patrol (CAP) is a congressionally chartered, federally supported non-profit corporation that serves as the official civilian auxiliary of the United States Air Force (USAF).

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Coalinga Municipal Airport (Old)

Coalinga Municipal Airport (Old) is a closed airport located 1 mile north of Coalinga, California.

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Coast Guard Air Station Los Angeles

Coast Guard Air Station Los Angeles (CGAS Los Angeles) was a United States Coast Guard air station located at Naval Air Station Point Mugu in Point Mugu, California.

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Coast Guard Air Station Sacramento

Coast Guard Air Station Sacramento is an Air Station of the United States Coast Guard, located in Sacramento County, California.

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Coast Guard Air Station San Diego

U.S. Coast Guard Air Station San Diego (CGAS San Diego) is a Coast Guard Air Station based in San Diego, California, United States, across the street from San Diego International Airport.

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Coast Guard Air Station San Francisco

Coast Guard Air Station San Francisco is a United States Coast Guard Air Station located 13 miles south of downtown San Francisco, California at the San Francisco International Airport in an unincorporated area of San Mateo County.

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Cold War

The Cold War was a state of geopolitical tension after World War II between powers in the Eastern Bloc (the Soviet Union and its satellite states) and powers in the Western Bloc (the United States, its NATO allies and others).

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Consolidated Aircraft

The Consolidated Aircraft Corporation was founded in 1923 by Reuben H. Fleet in Buffalo, New York, the result of the Gallaudet Aircraft Company's liquidation and Fleet's purchase of designs from the Dayton-Wright Company as the subsidiary was being closed by its parent corporation, General Motors.

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Continental Air Forces

Continental Air Forces (CAF) was a United States Army Air Forces major command at the end of World War II and during the early Cold War for combat training of bomber and fighter personnel and for Continental United States (CONUS) air defense after the Aircraft Warning Corps and Ground Observer Corps were placed in standby during 1944.

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Corcoran Airport

Corcoran Airport was a public use airport located two nautical miles (3.7 km) west of the central business district of Corcoran, a town in Kings County, California, United States.

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Daggett, California

Daggett is an unincorporated community located in San Bernardino County, California in the United States.

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Delano Municipal Airport

Delano Municipal Airport is a public airport southeast of Delano, in Kern County, California.

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Desert Center Airport

Desert Center Airport is a private-use airport located five nautical miles (6 mi, 9 km) northeast of the central business district of Desert Center, in Riverside County, California, United States.

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Dos Palos, California

Dos Palos (formerly, Colony Center) is a city in Merced County, California, United States.

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Douglas Aircraft Company

The Douglas Aircraft Company was an American aerospace manufacturer based in Southern California.

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Eagle Field (airport)

Eagle Field is a privately owned, private use airport in Fresno County, California, United States.

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Eastern Sierra Regional Airport

Eastern Sierra Regional Airport is two miles east of Bishop, in Inyo County, California.

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Eckert Field Airport

Eckert Field Airport is a general aviation airport located 1 mi Northeast of Strathmore, California.

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Edwards Air Force Base

Edwards Air Force Base (AFB) is a United States Air Force installation located in Kern County in southern California, about northeast of Lancaster and east of Rosamond.

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El Mirage Field

El Mirage Field is a private airport located 3 miles west of El Mirage, California.

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Exeter Airport (California)

Exeter Airport is a public use airport located three nautical miles (6 km) south of the central business district of Exeter, a city in Tulare County, California, United States.

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Fairfield, California

Fairfield is a city in, and the county seat of, Solano County, California, in the North Bay sub-region of the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Fourth Air Force

The Fourth Air Force (4 AF) is a numbered air force of the Air Force Reserve Command (AFRC).

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Franklin Field (California)

Franklin Field, formerly Q53, is a public airport located four miles (6 km) southeast of the central business district (CBD) of Franklin in Sacramento County, California, USA.

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Fresno Chandler Executive Airport

Fresno Chandler Executive Airport is a public use airport west of the central business district of Fresno, in Fresno County, California, United States.

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Fresno Yosemite International Airport

Fresno Yosemite International Airport, is a joint civil-military airport in Fresno, California.

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Fresno, California

Fresno (Spanish for "ash tree") is a city in California, United States, and the county seat of Fresno County.

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Furnace Creek Airport

Furnace Creek Airport is a public airport located 0.75 miles (1 km) west of Furnace Creek, Death Valley, serving Inyo County, California, USA.

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Furnace Creek, California

Furnace Creek is a census-designated place (CDP) in Inyo County, California.

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Gardner Army Airfield

Gardner Army Airfield is a former United States Army Air Force World War II Field located 9 miles southeast of Taft, California.

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George Air Force Base

George Air Force Base is a former 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.

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Grand Central Airport (California)

Grand Central Airport, Glendale, California, also known as Grand Central Air Terminal (GCAT), was an important facility for the growing Los Angeles suburb of Glendale in the 1920s.

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Grey Butte Field Airport

Gray Butte Field Airport is a private airport located 25 miles east of Palmdale, California.

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Haigh Field Airport

Haigh Field Airport is a public airport located three miles (4.8 km) southeast of the central business district (CBD) of Orland, a city in Glenn County, California, USA.

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Half Moon Bay Airport

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Hamilton Army Airfield

Hamilton Field (Hamilton AFB) was a United States Air Force base, which was deactivated in 1973, decommissioned in 1974, and put into a caretaker status with the Air Force Reserves until 1976.

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Hamilton Wetland Restoration Project

The Hamilton Wetland Restoration Project, now known as the Hamilton/Bel Marin Keys Wetlands Restoration is a wetlands habitat restoration project at the former Hamilton Air Force Base—Hamilton Army Airfield (1930−1988) site and adjacent Bel Marin Keys shoreline, in Marin County, California.

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Hancock Field (California)

Hancock Field is a former airport and military airfield about south-southeast of Santa Maria, California.

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Hawthorne Municipal Airport (California)

Hawthorne Municipal Airport (Jack Northrop Field) is a mile (2 km) east of Hawthorne, in Los Angeles County, California.

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Hawthorne, California

Hawthorne is a city in southwestern Los Angeles County, California, United States.

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Hayward Executive Airport

Hayward Executive Airport is a city owned public airport located in Hayward, California, United States.

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Hemet, California

Hemet is a city in the San Jacinto Valley in Riverside County, California.

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Hemet-Ryan Airport

Hemet-Ryan Airport is a county-owned, public-use airport located three nautical miles (6 km) southwest of the central business district of Hemet, in Riverside County, California, United States.

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Hollywood Burbank Airport

Hollywood Burbank Airport, formerly known as Bob Hope Airport is a public airport northwest of downtown Burbank, in Los Angeles County, California.

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Independence Airport

Independence Airport is a public airport located one mile (1.6 km) north of Independence, serving Inyo County, California, USA.

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Inyo County Airport

Inyo County Airport is a closed airport located east of Fresno, California.

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Jacqueline Cochran Regional Airport

Jacqueline Cochran Regional Airport is a county owned, public use airport in Riverside County, California, United States.

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John Wayne Airport

John Wayne Airport is an international airport in Orange County, California, United States, with its mailing address in the city of Santa Ana, hence the IATA airport code.

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King City, California

King City (variant: Kings City) is a city in Monterey County, California, United States.

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Kingdon Airpark

Kingdon Airpark is a general aviation airport located 4 miles southwest of Lodi, California.

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Lancaster, California

Lancaster is a charter city in northern Los Angeles County, in the Antelope Valley of the western Mojave Desert in Southern California.

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Lemoore Army Air Field

Lemoore Army Air Field, located nine miles (14 km) southwest of Lemoore, California, was a dirt air field usable only in dry weather.

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Lemoore, California

Lemoore (formerly, La Tache and Lee Moore's) is a city in Kings County, California, United States.

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Lincoln Regional Airport (California)

Lincoln Regional Airport (Karl Harder Field) is a public airport three miles (5 km) west of Lincoln, in Placer County, California.

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Lockheed Corporation

The Lockheed Corporation was an American aerospace company.

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Lone Pine Airport

Lone Pine Airport is a public airport located one mile (1.6 km) southeast of Lone Pine (Geographic coordinates N36-35.30; W118-03.12) serving Inyo County, California, USA.

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Lone Pine, California

Lone Pine is a census designated place (CDP) in Inyo County, California, United States.

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Long Beach Airport

Long Beach Airport is a city-owned public airport three miles northeast of downtown Long Beach, in Los Angeles County, California.

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Long Beach, California

Long Beach is a city on the Pacific Coast of the United States, within the Greater Los Angeles area of Southern California.

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Los Angeles

Los Angeles (Spanish for "The Angels";; officially: the City of Los Angeles; colloquially: by its initials L.A.) is the second-most populous city in the United States, after New York City.

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Los Angeles Air Defense Region

The Los Angeles Air Defense Region is an inactive United States Air Force unit.

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Los Angeles International Airport

Los Angeles International Airport is the primary international airport serving Los Angeles, California.

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Lost Hills Airport

Lost Hills Airport, also known as Lost Hills-Kern County Airport, is a public airport located northeast of the central business district (CBD) of Lost Hills, in Kern County, California, USA.

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March Air Reserve Base

March Air Reserve Base (March ARB), previously known as March Air Force Base (March AFB) is located in Riverside County, California between the cities of Riverside, Moreno Valley, and Perris.

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Mariposa-Yosemite Airport

Mariposa-Yosemite Airport is a public airport located four miles (6 km) west of the central business district of Mariposa, in Mariposa County, California, United States.

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Marysville, California

Marysville is the county seat of Yuba County, California, United States.

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Mather Air Force Base

Mather Air Force Base (Mather AFB) was a United States Air Force Base, which was closed in 1993.

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McClellan Air Force Base

McClellan Air Force Base (1935–2001) is a former United States Air Force base located in the North Highlands area of Sacramento County, northeast of Sacramento, California.

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Meadows Field Airport

Meadows Field is a public airport in Kern County, California, three miles northwest of Downtown Bakersfield, California.

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Mefford Field Airport

Mefford Field is a public use airport in Tulare County, California, United States.

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Merced Regional Airport

Merced Regional Airport (MacReady Field) is two miles southwest of Merced, in Merced County, California.

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Merced, California

Merced (Spanish for "Mercy") is a city in, and the county seat of, Merced County, California, United States, in the San Joaquin Valley.

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Mesa Del Rey Airport

Mesa Del Rey Airport is a city owned, public use airport located one nautical mile (2 km) northeast of the central business district of King City, in Monterey County, California, United States.

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Modesto City–County Airport

Modesto City–County Airport (Harry Sham Field) is two miles (3 km) southeast of Modesto in Stanislaus County, California, USA.

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Mojave Desert

The Mojave Desert is an arid rain-shadow desert and the driest desert in North America.

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Mojave, California

Mojave (formerly, Mohave) is a census-designated place (CDP) in Kern County, California, United States.

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Montague Airport (California)

The Montague Airport, also known as Yreka Rohrer Field, is located on the west side of Montague, California.

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Montgomery Field Airport

Montgomery - Gibbs Executive Airport is a public airport in San Diego, California, United States, six miles (10 km) north of downtown San Diego.

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Murray Field

Murray Field is a county-owned public airport east of Eureka in Humboldt County, California.

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Napa County Airport

Napa County Airport (Napa Valley Airport) is a public airport five miles (8 km) south of Napa, in Napa County, California, United States.

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Naval Air Station Lemoore

Naval Air Station Lemoore or NAS Lemoore is a United States Navy base, located in Kings County and Fresno County, California.

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Naval Air Station North Island

Naval Air Station North Island or NAS North Island is located at the north end of the Coronado peninsula on San Diego Bay and is the home port of several aircraft carriers of the United States Navy.

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Needles Airport

Needles Airport is a county-owned public airport in San Bernardino County, California, five miles (9 km) south of Needles.

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New Jerusalem Airport

New Jerusalem Airport is a nontowered, public airport located seven nautical miles (8.1 miles; 13 km) southeast of the central business district of Tracy, a city in San Joaquin County, California, United States.

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North American Aviation

North American Aviation (NAA) was a major American aerospace manufacturer, responsible for a number of historic aircraft, including the T-6 Texan trainer, the P-51 Mustang fighter, the B-25 Mitchell bomber, the F-86 Sabre jet fighter, the X-15 rocket plane, and the XB-70, as well as Apollo Command and Service Module, the second stage of the Saturn V rocket, the Space Shuttle orbiter and the B-1 Lancer.

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Northrop Corporation

Northrop Corporation was a leading United States aircraft manufacturer from its formation in 1939 until its 1994 merger with Grumman to form Northrop Grumman.

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Norton Air Force Base

Norton Air Force Base (1942–1994) was a United States Air Force facility east of downtown San Bernardino, California, in San Bernardino County.

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Oakland International Airport

Oakland International Airport is an international airport in Oakland, California, United States.

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Oakland, California

Oakland is the largest city and the county seat of Alameda County, California, United States.

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Ontario Air National Guard Station

Ontario Air National Guard Station is a former California Air National Guard facility located alongside Ontario International Airport in Ontario, California.

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Ontario International Airport

Ontario International Airport is a public airport two miles east of downtown Ontario, a city in San Bernardino County, California, US, about west of Downtown San Bernardino and east of Downtown Los Angeles.

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Ontario, California

Ontario is a city located in southwestern San Bernardino County, California, east of downtown Los Angeles.

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Oroville Municipal Airport

Oroville Municipal Airport is a public airport located 3 miles (5 km) southwest of the city of Oroville in Butte County, California, USA.

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Oxnard Air Force Base

Oxnard Air Force Base is a former United States Air Force base, located in the city of Camarillo, California.

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Oxnard Airport

Oxnard Airport is a county owned, public airport a mile west of downtown Oxnard, in Ventura County, California.

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Oxnard, California

Oxnard is a city in Ventura County, California, United States.

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Palm Springs International Airport

Palm Springs International Airport, formerly Palm Springs Municipal Airport, is a public airport two miles (3 km) east of downtown Palm Springs, California.

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Palm Springs, California

Palm Springs (Cahuilla: Se-Khi)Wilkerson, Lyn (2009).

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Paso Robles Municipal Airport

Paso Robles Municipal Airport is a public airport four miles (6 km) northeast of downtown Paso Robles, in San Luis Obispo County, California.

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Porterville Municipal Airport

Porterville Municipal Airport is a city-owned public-use airport located three nautical miles (6 km) southwest of the central business district of Porterville, a city in Tulare County, California, United States.

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Poso Airport

Poso Airport, also known as Poso-Kern County Airport, is a county-owned public-use airport located four nautical miles (7 km) east of the central business district of Famoso, in Kern County, California, United States.

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Rankin Field

Rankin Field is a former airport and military airfield located approximately southeast of Tulare, California.

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Redding Municipal Airport

Redding Municipal Airport is 6 miles (10 km) southeast of Redding in Shasta County, California.

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Rice Army Airfield

Rice Army Air Field (also known as Rice Air Base or Rice AAF) is an abandoned World War II airfield in Rice Valley of the southern Mojave Desert, located east-southeast of the community of Rice.

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Riverside, California

Riverside is a city in Riverside County, California, United States, located in the Inland Empire metropolitan area.

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Sacramento Executive Airport

Sacramento Executive Airport is a public airport three miles (5 km) south of downtown Sacramento, in Sacramento County, California.

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Sacramento Mather Airport

Sacramento Mather Airport, also known as simply Mather Airport, is a county-owned public-use airport located 10 nautical miles (19 km) east of the central business district of Sacramento, in Sacramento County, California, United States.

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Sacramento McClellan Airport

Sacramento McClellan Airport is a privately-owned public-use airport located six miles (10 km) northeast of the central business district of Sacramento (a city in Sacramento County, California, United States).

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Sacramento, California

Sacramento is the capital city of the U.S. state of California and the seat of Sacramento County.

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Salinas Municipal Airport

Salinas Municipal Airport is three miles southeast of Salinas, in Monterey County, California.

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Salinas, California

Salinas is the county seat and largest municipality of Monterey County, California.

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San Bernardino International Airport

San Bernardino International Airport, initialism: SBIA) is a public airport located less than two miles (3 km) southeast of the city center of San Bernardino, California, in San Bernardino County, California, USA. The airport covers and has one runway. The facility is currently operating as a general aviation and cargo airport located on the former site of Norton Air Force Base, which was built as the San Bernardino Air Depot in 1942 and which was decommissioned in March 1994. A non-federal control tower (NFCT) began operation on November 9, 2008, and is operated under contract by SERCO company personnel. US FOREST SERVICE USFS has an air tanker base and reloading facility on the North side of field which is in operation for as much as 8 months each year. During area fires, heavy traffic from airtankers and other emergency aircraft can be expected. Such aircraft are often given priority when arriving or departing.

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San Bernardino, California

San Bernardino is a city located in the Riverside–San Bernardino metropolitan area (sometimes called the "Inland Empire").

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San Diego

San Diego (Spanish for 'Saint Didacus') is a major city in California, United States.

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San Diego International Airport

San Diego International Airport, formerly known as Lindbergh Field, is an international airport northwest of Downtown San Diego, California, United States.

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San Francisco

San Francisco (initials SF;, Spanish for 'Saint Francis'), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the cultural, commercial, and financial center of Northern California.

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San Francisco Air Defense Region

The San Francisco Fighter Wing is a disbanded United States Army Air Forces unit.

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San Francisco International Airport

San Francisco International Airport is an international airport south of downtown San Francisco, California, United States, near Millbrae and San Bruno in unincorporated San Mateo County.

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San Jose International Airport

Norman Y. Mineta San Jose International Airport is a city-owned public airport in San Jose, California, United States.

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San Jose, California

San Jose (Spanish for 'Saint Joseph'), officially the City of San José, is an economic, cultural, and political center of Silicon Valley and the largest city in Northern California.

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San Luis Obispo County Regional Airport

San Luis Obispo County Regional Airport, McChesney Field is a civil airport near San Luis Obispo, California.

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San Luis Obispo, California

San Luis Obispo (Spanish for St. Louis, the Bishop), or SLO for short, is a city in the U.S. state of California, located roughly midway between Los Angeles and San Francisco on the Central Coast.

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San Rafael, California

San Rafael ("Saint Raphael") is a city and the county seat of Marin County, California, United States.

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Santa Ana Army Air Base

Santa Ana Army Air Base (SAAAB) was an air base built during World War II that was decommissioned in 1946.

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Santa Ana, California

Santa Ana (Spanish for "Saint Anne") is the county seat and second most populous city in Orange County, California.

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Santa Maria Public Airport

Santa Maria Public Airport (Capt. G. Allan Hancock Field) is three miles (5 km) south of Santa Maria, in northern Santa Barbara County, California.

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Santa Maria, California

Santa Maria is a city near the Southern California coast in Santa Barbara County.

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Santa Monica Airport

Santa Monica Airport (Santa Monica Municipal Airport) is a general aviation airport largely in Santa Monica, California.

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Santa Monica, California

Santa Monica is a beachfront city in western Los Angeles County, California, United States.

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Santa Rosa, California

Santa Rosa (lit. Spanish for "Saint Rose") is a city in and the county seat of Sonoma County, California, United States.

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Sequoia Field Airport

Sequoia Field Airport is a county-owned, public-use airport located eight nautical miles (15 km) north of the central business district of Visalia, a city in Tulare County, California, United States.

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Shafter Airport

Shafter Airport, also known as Minter Field, is a public use airport located east of the central business district of Shafter, a city in Kern County, California, United States.

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Siskiyou County Airport

Siskiyou County Airport is a public airport located three miles (4.8 km) northeast of Montague, serving Siskiyou County, California, United States.

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Southern California Logistics Airport

Southern California Logistics Airport, also known as Victorville Airport, is a public airport located in the city of Victorville in San Bernardino County, California, approximately north of San Bernardino.

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Stockton Metropolitan Airport

Stockton Metropolitan Airport is a joint civil-military airport three miles southeast of downtown Stockton, a city in San Joaquin County, California.

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Stockton, California

Stockton is a city in and the county seat of San Joaquin County in the Central Valley of the U.S. state of California.

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Taft, California

Taft (formerly Moron, Moro, and Siding Number Two) is a city in the foothills at the extreme southwestern edge of the San Joaquin Valley, in Kern County, California.

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Thermal, California

Thermal is an unincorporated community within the Coachella Valley in Riverside County, California located approximately southeast of Palm Springs and about north of the Salton Sea.

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Tracy Municipal Airport (California)

Tracy Municipal Airport is three miles (5 km) southwest of Tracy, in San Joaquin County, California.

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Travis Air Force Base

Travis Air Force Base is a United States Air Force air base under the operational control of the Air Mobility Command (AMC), located three miles (5 km) east of the central business district of Fairfield, in Solano County, California, United States.

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Truckee, California

Truckee (originally, Coburn Station) is an incorporated town in Nevada County, California, United States.

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Tulare, California

Tulare is a city in Tulare County, California.

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Turlock Municipal Airport

Turlock Municipal Airport is a public airport located eight miles (13 km) east of Turlock, serving Stanislaus County, California, USA.

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United States Air Force

The United States Air Force (USAF) is the aerial and space warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces.

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United States Air Force Plant 42

United States Air Force Plant 42 (Plant 42) is a classified United States Government aircraft manufacturing plant, used by the United States Air Force.

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United States Army Air Forces

The United States Army Air Forces (USAAF or AAF), informally known as the Air Force, was the aerial warfare service of the United States of America during and immediately after World War II (1939/41–1945), successor to the previous United States Army Air Corps and the direct predecessor of the United States Air Force of today, one of the five uniformed military services.

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United States Navy

The United States Navy (USN) is the naval warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the seven uniformed services of the United States.

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Van Nuys

Van Nuys is a neighborhood in the central San Fernando Valley region of the city of Los Angeles in California.

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Van Nuys Air National Guard Base

Van Nuys Air National Guard Base is a former United States Air Force base, located at Van Nuys Airport, California.

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Van Nuys Airport

Van Nuys Airport is a public airport in Van Nuys in the San Fernando Valley section of the city limits of Los Angeles, California.

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Victorville, California

Victorville is a city located in the Victor Valley of southwestern San Bernardino County, California.

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Visalia Municipal Airport

Visalia Municipal Airport is five miles west of downtown Visalia, in Tulare County, California.

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Visalia, California

Visalia is a city situated in the agricultural San Joaquin Valley of California, approximately southeast of San Francisco, north of Los Angeles, west of Sequoia National Park and south of Fresno.

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Vultee Aircraft

The Vultee Aircraft Corporation became an independent company in 1939 in Los Angeles County, California.

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W. R. Byron Airport

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War Eagle Field

War Eagle Field is a former airfield located in the Mojave Desert, about west of Lancaster, California.

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Wasco Airport

Wasco Airport, also known as Wasco-Kern County Airport, is a public airport located northwest of Wasco, serving Kern County, California, USA.

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Willows-Glenn County Airport

Willows-Glenn County Airport is a county owned, public use airport located one nautical mile (2 km) west of the central business district of Willows, a city in Glenn County, California, United States.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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Yolo County Airport

Yolo County Airport is six miles northeast of Winters, five miles northwest of Davis and five miles southwest of Woodland, all in Yolo County, California.

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Yuba County Airport

Yuba County Airport is a county owned airport in Yuba County, California, three miles southeast of Marysville, California.

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Zamperini Field

Zamperini Field is a city-owned public airport three miles (5 km) southwest of downtown Torrance, in Los Angeles County, California, United States.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_World_War_II_Army_Airfields

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