| World / USA / California / Livermore, 5 km from center | Coordinates: 37°41'16"N 121°42'27"W |
7000 East Avenue, Livermore, CA 94550
DOE Research Lab
(aka Site 200)
www.llnl.gov/
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www.militarymuseum.org/NASLivermore.html --
"This station was built in 1942 four miles east of Livermore to relieve overcrowding of the naval air facilities at Oakland Municipal Airport. The primary mission of the base was to train pilots. Up to October 1944 some 4000 cadets trained here in N2S trainers known as "Yellow Perils". By late 1944 the Navy needed fewer pilots, so training operations ended and the station was given several new tasks; servicing fleet air units preparing for overseas operation, storing aircraft, repairing aircraft and the training of Navy and Marine air reservists.After the war the station closed down in stages and was decommissioned altogether in 1946. NAS, Livermore had the following outlying fields during the war:
- Abel Field, 1 mile northeast of Milpitas Brown Airport, 7 miles northwest of Tracy
- Brown-Fabian Airport, 3.5 miles west of Tracy
- Cope Field, 2 miles northeast of Pleasanton
- Gelderman Airport, 4 miles north of Dublin
- Heath Airport, 3 miles south of Irvington
- Linderman Airport, 9 miles northwest of Tracy
- Livermore Airport, 2 miles northwest of Livermore
- May's School Field, 4.5 miles northeast of Livermore
- Rita Butterworth Airport, 3 miles northeast of Pleasanton
- Spring Valley Airport, 2.5 miles northwest of Pleasanton
- Wagoner Airport, 1.5 miles southwest of Livermore"
More of NAS Livermore's history is located at the militarymuseum.org link.
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