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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.
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 Tennessee Army National Guard is a component of the United States Army and the United States National Guard. It is administered by the Tennessee Military Department . National coordination of various state National Guard units are maintained through the National Guard Bureau .
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.
Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. Download coordinates as: KML; ... Military facilities on the National Register of Historic Places in Tennessee (1 C, 7 P) F.
The U.S. military maintains hundreds of installations, both inside the United States and overseas (with at least 128 military bases located outside of its national territory as of July 2024). [2] According to the U.S. Army, Camp Humphreys in South Korea is the largest overseas base in terms of area. [3]
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 ...
Nike Hercules bases remained in operation at C49/50, C-72, and C-93 as well as at sites C-46 and C-47 in northern Indiana, until 1974. Army Air-Defense Command Post (AADCP) C-80DC established at Arlington Heights AI, IL in 1960 for Nike missile command-and-control functions. The site was initially an AN/FSG-l Missile-Master Radar Direction Center.