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Military facilities on the National Register of Historic Places in Washington (state) (1 C, 11 P) W Airfields of the United States Army Air Forces in Washington (state) (19 P)
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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 ...
The U.S. Army abandoned all operations in 1958. Upon this second deactivation, the Washington State Park System negotiated for acquisition of part of the fort in 1960, which became Fort Ward State Park. In 2011, it was transferred to the Bainbridge Island Metro Park & Recreation District and became Fort Ward Park.
Fort Worden was an active United States Army base from 1902 to 1953. Most of it was purchased by the Port of Port Townsend in 1956 and sold to the State of Washington in 1957 to house a juvenile detention facility (the Port retained ownership of the beach from the entrance of the Fort to approximately the pier).
The base was renamed Larson Air Force Base was named in honor of Major Donald A. Larson, USAAF, in May 1950. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Born and raised in Yakima, Washington , Larson was a fighter pilot and ace [ 7 ] who flew 57 combat missions in Europe during World War II .
The Washington State Veterans Cemetery opened in 2010 in Medical Lake, near Fairchild Air Force Base in the Spokane area. The other is Tahoma National Cemetery, in the Kent suburb of Seattle ...
The military encampment was redesigned in 1902 for infantry use. In 1910, a design overhaul, to include housing for officers and enlisted men, was prepared by landscape architect John C. Olmsted . In 1938 during the Great Depression , the Army offered to sell Fort Lawton back to the city of Seattle for one dollar, but the city declined, citing ...