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In 1920 the Eleventh Naval District became a separate Naval District with headquarters at San Diego, California. During World War II, 11th Naval District supported numerous Navy and Marine Corps facilities crucial to the Pacific war effort, including Naval Base San Pedro, Long Beach Naval Shipyard, Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego, and Air ...
The Eleventh Naval District was to be headquartered at the Lake Training Station in Lake Bluff, Illinois, while the Twelfth was to be headquartered at the Mare Island in Vallejo, California. Both districts were part of a larger administrative unit known as the "Ninth, Tenth and Eleventh Naval Districts".
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From 1942 through July 1944, during World War II, the airfield at Twentynine Palms was utilized by the U.S. Army Air Force for primary flight training. What is now the "Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center" was taken over by the Eleventh Naval District, headquartered in San Diego, as Naval Auxiliary Air Station Twentynine Palms, in July 1944.
A one-time special event was the "Parade of Flight" in February 2011, celebrating the 100th anniversary of naval aviation. It featured flights over San Diego Bay by more than 200 historic naval aircraft, [17] and concluded with a flyover by the air wing from the U.S.S. John C. Stennis. [18]
Naval Operating Base Terminal Island, (NOB Terminal Island) was United States Navy base founded on 25 September 1941 to support the World War II efforts in the Pacific War. Naval Operating Base Terminal Island was founded by combining Naval Facilities in cities of San Pedro, Long Beach and Wilmington, California under one command.
On 22 August 1951, the 11th Naval District announced the award to R. R. Hensler, of Sun Valley, of a $1.307 million contract for the extension and strengthening of the runway at the Marine Corps auxiliary airfield. [7] The airport was recommissioned as a MCAAS on December 31, 1953. [8]
In 1940, the United States Army established Camp Seeley; [2] its combat firing range site is within the current boundaries of the El Centro Naval Reservation. [3] In 1941 the Civil Aeronautics Administration offered to replace the small airport in Imperial, California with a larger complex consisting of two 4,500ft runways.