Naval Weapons Station

Naval Weapons Station

The piers extending in to the York River, just to the right, serve a major Navy installation. Since its establishment in 1918, then as a Mine Depot, it has served our country in two World Wars and ...

National Historic Landmark-Pensacola Naval Air Station

Established in January 1914, this was the United States' first permanent naval air station, first Navy pilot training center, and first U.S. naval installation to send pilots into combat.

Information provided by the National Register of Historic Places, a program of ...

Naval Air Station Stanford Memorial Park

The Naval Air Station at Sanford was opened in 1942 during World War II and trained an estimated 50 percent of naval fighter and bomber pilots during the war. It was decommissioned in 1946, following the end of the war. ...

The Jimmy Doolittle Pier – Alameda Naval Air Station

Pier No. 3

On April 1, 1942, sixteen B-25 bombers were hoisted to the flight deck of the carrier Hornet and parked there, while moored at Pier No. 3 at U.S. Naval Station in Alameda. The B-25 detachment consisted of seventy ...

United States Naval Training Station

Great Lakes, Illinois

Land donated, 1905,

by

The Commercial Club of Chicago,

Theodore Roosevelt, President,

Paul Morton, Secretary of the Navy,

F. A. Delano, President, Commercial Club, Chicago,

Graeme Stewart, Member, Commercial Club, Chicago.

Station Dedicated 1911.

William H. Taft, President,

George Von L. Meyer, Secretary of the Navy,

George C. ...

Naval Air Station - Sanford

In November 1942, NAS Sanford was commissioned to meet the need for additional naval aviation training facilities. Originally planned for bomber training, within a year it converted to fighter plane training. A major portion of fighter pilots that served on ...

Naval Station

1823 - 1974

Commodore David Porter established a Naval Station here on April 3, 1823 as a Supply Base for his 17-ship Anti-Pirate Squadron. The Station remained in constant operation from that date until its disestablishment on March 31, 1974. Although ...

U. S. Naval Air Station

Blimp Base

In an effort to defend U. S. coasts and shipping lanes against German submarine activity during World War II, the U. S. Navy established bases to house huge lighter-than-air (LTA) craft, also known as blimps. With the ability to ...

Naval Weapons Station

The piers extending into the York River, just to the right, serve a major Navy installation. Since its establishment in 1918, then as a Mine Depot, it has served our country in two World Wars and the Korean conflict as ...

First U.S. Naval Station In The Pacific

Mare Island Navy Yard was established September 16, 1854, by the then Commander David G. Farragut, USN. Site selected in 1852 by a commission headed by Commodore John D. Sloat, USN.

Mare Island had the Navy's first shipyard, ammunition depot, hospital, ...