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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.
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.
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
List of military installations in Newfoundland & Labrador Name Location Operator Branch Date Coordinates Ref; Allan's Island Radar Station: Allan's Island
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Pepperrell Air Force Base, U.S. military base in St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada from 1941 to 1960 William Pepperrell (1696–1759), merchant and soldier in Colonial Massachusetts William Pepperrell House , historic house on State Route 103 (ME 103) in Kittery Point, Maine
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The 3d Battalion departed from New York on 20 January 1941 and was sent to St. John's, Newfoundland before moving to Fort Pepperrell in the Newfoundland Base Command in November 1941. The 1st Battalion was inactivated 1 June 1941 at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri , with its soldiers being assigned to the 63rd Infantry and was re-activated 14 ...