Former US Air Force base in Nye County, Nevada, US
"Tonopah Army Airfield" redirects here. For the Cold War radar station, see Tonopah Air Force Station. For the 1958 Mud Lake Test Annex, see Edwards Air Force Base.
Tonopah Air Force Base
Part of Fourth Air Force
Nye County, near Tonopah, Nevada
1944 Tonopah AAFld after a $3,000,000 project was completed for runways, new aprons, new water storage tanks, additional quarters and barracks, a new post exchange, supply buildings, crash stations, warehouses, operations buildings, a hangar, a school building, and range facilities. Most construction was complete by the beginning of November 1943.[1]World War II newspaper: Desert Bomber[2]
Tonopah Air Force Base (Tonopah Army Air Field in World War II) is a Formerly Used Defense Site (FUDS)[4] in the USA that was a Tonopah Basin military installation until shortly after it was designated an Air Force Base in 1948. Two of the runways still in use are maintained by Nye County, Nevada; and World War II building foundations and three hangars of the base remain at the municipal Tonopah Airport.
Main gate at Tonopah AAF, 1944.
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