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Rice Army Air Field (also known as Rice Air Base [1] or Rice AAF) is an abandoned World War II airfield in Rice Valley of the southern Mojave Desert, located 1-mile (1.6 km) east-southeast of the community of Rice. The airfield is located in Riverside County just south of the San Bernardino county line and State Route 62.
To the east of Rice is the Rice Municipal Airport, which was acquired by the United States Army's 4th Air Support Command in 1942 as a sub-base of Thermal Army Airfield, [3] and was operational by the end of the year. While the airfield's date of construction is unknown, it was not depicted on a 1932 Los Angeles Airways Chart, indicating ...
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Desert Center Army Airfield Gary Army Airfield Rice Army Airfield Muroc Flight Test Base. Ontario Army Airfield, 1-mile (1.6 km) east of Ontario; 311th Army Air Force Base Unit Now: LA/Ontario International Airport (IATA: ONT, ICAO: KONT, FAA LID: ONT) Salinas Army Air Base, 3 miles (4.8 km) southeast of Salinas; 301st Base Headquarters and Air ...
– CAMP IBIS – Camp Ibis was established at this site in the Spring of 1942 – one of eleven such camps built in the California–Arizona Desert to harden and train United States Troops for service on the battlefields of World War II. The 440th AAA AW Battalion was activated per General Order No. 1 at Camp Haan, CA on 1 July 1942.
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Camp Ibis and Camp Ibis Airfield in 1943. Patton established five major airfields with landing strips near each camp to bring in supplies. [9] Camp Ibis Airfield was an air strip located on the west side of Camp Ibis to support training activities there. Its 4,500 foot runway was made of steel landing mats running north–south, parallel to ...