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The War Assets Administration (WAA) was created to dispose of United States government-owned surplus material and property from World War II. The WAA was established in the Office for Emergency Management, effective March 25, 1946, by Executive Order 9689, January 31, 1946. It was headed by Robert McGowan Littlejohn.

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War Assets Administration

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The War Assets Administration (WAA) was created to dispose of United States government-owned surplus material and property from World War II. The WAA...

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WAA

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agency of Nazi Germany Wales Airport (Alaska) Walla Walla language War Assets Administration West African Airlines, a Beninese airline Westair Aviation, a...

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Airglades Airport

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War Assets Administration (WAA) and the facility was eventually acquired by Hendry County. The present-day Airglades Airport was built after the war over...

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General Services Administration

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Agency, including the Public Buildings Administration and the Public Roads Administration War Assets Administration GSA became an independent agency on July...

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Happy Hundred

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McNamee, theater manager and former regional director of the War Assets Administration Austin Meehan, sheriff of Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania Vincent...

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Norman Cota

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In August, he was hired as administrator for Zone One of the War Assets Administration. In the late 1950s, he was the civil defense director for Montgomery...

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Eleventh Air Force

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United States Army Air Forces. It provided air defense of Alaska during World War II and fought in the Aleutian Islands Campaign. It was re-designated as the...

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Alaska World War II Army Airfields

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During World War II, Alaska was a major United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) location for personnel, aircraft, and airfields to support Lend-Lease aid...

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Tucker 48

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mills to provide raw materials for his cars were rejected by the War Assets Administration under a shroud of questionable politics. Tucker had promised 150 hp...

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Jess Larson

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first Administrator of General Services, the administrator of the War Assets Administration, and as chairman and president of the Air Force Association. Jess...

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Barstow Bridge

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pre-fabricated steel bridge that was a surplus World War II bridge. It was bought from the U.S. War Assets Administration in 1946 and was installed near the unincorporated...

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Kearns Army Air Base

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August 1946 and transferred to the War Assets Administration for disposal.[citation needed] The War Assets Administration declared Kearns surplus on 24 January...

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Bellingham International Airport

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the facility in September 1946, and it was turned over to the War Assets Administration for disposal. A terminal, designed by F. Stanley Piper, was built...

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Palm Springs International Airport

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the main airfield was declared excess and transferred to the War Assets Administration for disposal in 1946 and it was sold to private buyers. The City...

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Camp Bowie

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1946, the War Department notified Texas members of Congress that the camp had been declared "surplus." The Civilian War Assets Administration was to take...

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Thunderbird School of Global Management

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(AAF) officer who purchased the former Thunderbird Field from the War Assets Administration for one dollar, subject to the condition that the property be...

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Preston Tucker

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Plant, which was later known as the Chicago Dodge Plant, from the War Assets Administration. The facility had previously been used to build the massive Wright...

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Lookout Mountain Air Force Station

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Mountain. In January, 1948, the building was acquired from the War Assets Administration by the Air Force and the Atomic Energy Commission for the Lookout...

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Reconstruction Finance Corporation

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Economic Administration, which was transferred to the Reconstruction Finance Corporation and changed to the War Assets Corporation. The War Assets Corporation...

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Orange Coast College

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junior college on a 243-acre (0.98 km2) site, secured from the War Assets Administration in Washington, D.C, and part of the 1,300-acre (5.3 km2) deactivated...

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Van Nuys Airport

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in the area. In 1949, after the war, the City of Los Angeles purchased the airport from the War Assets Administration for $1, with the agreement that...

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Zamperini Field

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aircraft on training flights. It was closed after World War II and the War Assets Administration (WAA) turned it over to local government. Once turned over...

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Jacqueline Cochran Regional Airport

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16, 1945, and transferred to the War Assets Administration (WAA) on January 23, 1947. The War Assets Administration turned the military airfield to civil...

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The Swoose

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was caught in the rush to disarm, ending up at the extensive War Assets Administration facility at Kingman, Arizona, slated to be melted down for its...

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