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313th Army Air Force Base Unit Was: Sewart AAF until 1947, then Sewart Air Force Base (1947-1971) Now: Smyrna Airport and Army Aviation Support Facility #1, Tennessee Army National Guard William Northern Field, Tullahoma Sub-base of Smyrna AAF 343d Army Air Force Base Unit Now: Tullahoma Regional Airport: Air Transport Command. Memphis AAF, Memphis
The group decided on a location in the Millington area, about 16 miles (26 km) northeast of Memphis, an agreement to lease the land for the Army was concluded, and the United States Army Signal Corps — which managed U.S. Army aviation in its early days — established the Park Field site in May 1917. The construction of some 50 buildings began.
The Memphis Defense Depot is a decommissioned United States Army supply depot located on 642 acres (260 ha) in Memphis, Tennessee. It operated as a military depot from 1942 until 1997. It operated as a military depot from 1942 until 1997.
Tennessee Army National Guardsmen participating in training in preparation for deployment to Iraq, 2009 Tennessee's 45th General Assembly in 1887 established the Tennessee National Guard, as it is known today. [ 10 ]
From 1987 until 1997, the 278th's MI unit was the 302nd MI Company, U.S. Army Reserve (USAR), stationed in Memphis, TN. The MI organization for the 278th converted from the USAR to the ARNG as part of the realignment of combat, combat service, and combat service support units between the Army's two Reserve Components that began in 1995.
Military aviation first came to Memphis during World War I when the US Army leased 904 acres (366 ha) from the Memphis Chamber of Commerce. The Army established Park Field for flight training on November 26, 1907. The US Government purchased the property in 1920. Two years later, the Army closed the base. Aerial view of NAS Memphis in the mid ...
The Tennessee Air National Guard (TN ANG) is the aerial militia of the State of Tennessee, United States of America. It is, along with the Tennessee Army National Guard an element of the Tennessee National Guard of the larger United States National Guard Bureau and a reserve of the United States Air Force .
The War Department ordered the construction of a Bombardment Air Base near Nashville on 22 December 1941, shortly after the US had entered World War II.A tract of land consisting of 3,325 acres (1,346 ha) located off US Route 70 in Rutherford County, Tennessee near Smyrna, Tennessee, was selected and acquired by the United States Army Air Forces for use as an Army-Air Force Training Command Base.