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Barracks at Fort Pepperrell. The primary tenant unit at the base was the 6604th Air Base Wing, which maintained and operated Fort Pepperrell. The Royal Canadian Air Force established RCAF Station Torbay on December 15, 1941, and shared this facility with the USAAF and USN, along with the Royal Air Force.
The first United States troops arrived in Newfoundland on 29 January 1941. The first base occupied was a temporary tent camp near St. John's called Camp Alexander. Nearby Fort Pepperrell (renamed Pepperrell Air Force Base on 16 June 1949) received its first
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The United States established an administrative army air force and coast defense base named Fort Pepperrell in St. John's, along with a deepwater naval base and naval aviation field at Argentia on the Avalon Peninsula.
These were supplemented by at least two Canadian-manned QF 4.7-inch B Mark IV* guns at Fort Amherst; these were former field guns converted to fixed mountings. On 1 May 1941 part of Battery D, 52nd Coast Artillery (Railway) Regiment arrived at Fort Pepperrell with two 8-inch M1888 railway guns, initially emplaced at Signal Hill.
List of military installations in Newfoundland & Labrador Name Location Operator Branch Date Coordinates Ref; Allan's Island Radar Station: Allan's Island
It was the site of an American Army Air Force base, Fort Pepperrell, that was established as part of the "Lend-Lease" Destroyers for Bases Agreement between the United Kingdom and United States. [10] The base included several US-manned coast defence guns , and a Canadian-manned battery of two Lend-Lease 10-inch (250 mm) M1888 guns was at Fort ...
Fort Amherst, St. John's; Fort Frederick (Newfoundland) Fort George, Ontario; Fort Malden; Fort McAndrew; Fort Mississauga; Fort Pepperrell; Fort Plaisance; Fort Point, Newfoundland and Labrador; Fort Royal (Newfoundland) Fort Townshend (St John's) Fort Waldegrave, Newfoundland and Labrador; Fort William, Newfoundland; Fort York