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List of United States military bases in Illinois is a listing of current and former United States military bases located in the US State of Illinois. Air Force [ edit ]
Yuma Proving Ground is a census-designated place (CDP) covering the population of the Howard Cantonment at Yuma Proving Ground in Yuma County, Arizona. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] It first appeared as a CDP in the 2020 Census with a population of 313.
Yuma Test Branch was built in 1943 northwest of Camp Laguna, in what is now the Yuma Proving Ground. The Yuma Test Branch, also called the Italians at the Yuma Test Branch, was built to test mobile bridge building equipment. The site is near the Colorado River, thus was ideal for testing mobile combat bridges, amphibious vehicles, and boats.
US Military Designations: Camp Boom; Camp/FOB Gabe; Camp Freedom; Camp/FOB Warhorse; FOB Scunion; FOB Comanche United States Army Forward Operating Base, Current status undetermined. H-3 Air Base; Former Iraqi Air Force hardened "Super Base" Consisted of H-3 Main; H-3 NW; H-3 SW and H-3 Highway (Abandoned 2003) Camp Korean Village/Camp "KV" (USMC)
During World War II, the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) established numerous airfields in Arizona 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 (A predecessor of the current-day United States Air Force Air Education and Training Command).
Following the failure of the California Militia against the Quechan people (Yuma Indians), in the Gila Expedition, the U. S. Army sent the Yuma Expedition under Captain Samuel P. Heintzelman, to establish a post at Yuma Crossing of the Colorado River in the vicinity where it met the Gila River in the Lower Colorado River Valley region of California.
Fort Yuma was a fort in California located in Imperial County, across the Colorado River from Yuma, Arizona. It was Established in 1848. It was Established in 1848. It served as a stop on the Butterfield Overland Mail route from 1858 until 1861.