Marine Corps Air Facility Walnut Ridge

United States Marine Corps, Walnut Ridge Regional Airport, Douglas SBD Dauntless
Herausgegeben:Luther, Evander

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Marine Corps Air Facility Walnut Ridge is a former United States Army and United States Marine Corps airfield located in Walnut Ridge, Arkansas. After it was closed, it was redeveloped into Walnut Ridge Regional Airport. The airfield was built in 1942/43 and opened in October 1943 as Walnut Ridge Army Airfield and was used by the United States Army Air Forces as a training base during World War II. Walnut Ridge was commanded by the 324th Army Air Force Base Unit, being assiged to the AAF Southeast Training Center. Designed for 5,114 military personnel, and 976 civilians, Walnut Ridge AAF had three (3) 5,000-foot runways, a huge apron covering over 63 acres (250,000 m2), 4 large hangars, base engineering building, and fully equipped 203 bed hospital. It also included, 131,151 sq ft (12,184.3 m2). of office space, 119,613 sq ft (11,112.4 m2). of enclosed storage space, 49,324 sq ft (4,582.3 m2).

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• Verlag: Acu Publishing / Alphascript Publishing
• Aufl.
• Seitenzahl: 104
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9786138143444
• ISBN-10: 6138143442
• Artikelnr.: 34498179