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449th Bombardment Wing. Kincheloe Air Force Base was a United States Air Force (USAF) base during the Cold War. Built in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan in 1943 during World War II, the base was in service until 1977.[ 1][ 2][ 3] The base was known by various names, including Kinross Municipal Airport, Kinross Army Air Field, Kinross Air Field ...
K. I. Sawyer Air Force Base is a decommissioned United States Air Force (USAF) installation in Marquette County, Michigan, south of the city of Marquette. Near the center of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, the base operated for nearly forty years and closed in 1995. The county airport, Sawyer International, now occupies a portion of the base and ...
Fort Brady, Sault Saint Marie, built 1822, closed 1944 (except for an antiaircraft battery in place until 1962) Fort Saginaw, Saginaw, built 1822, abandoned 1824. Detroit Arsenal, Dearborn, built 1832, sold off in 1877. Fort Wayne, Detroit, built 1843, in use until the 1970s (the Army Corps of Engineers still maintains a boatdock here) Fort ...
Oscoda Army Airfield, 1943. Wurtsmith Air Force Base is a decommissioned United States Air Force base in Iosco County, Michigan. Near Lake Huron, it operated for seventy years, from 1923 until decommissioned in 1993. On January 18, 1994, Wurtsmith was listed as a Superfund site, due to extensive groundwater contamination with heavy metals ...
Sahl Sinjar Air Base (Abandoned 1991) US Military Designations: Camp Sinjar United States Army facility closed 2004, now abandoned. Samarra East Air Base (Al Bakr Airfield) Former Iraqi Air Force hardened "Super Base" US Military Designations: FOB McKenzie, FOB Pacesetter Active United States Army facility. Shaykh Mazhar Air Base (Abandoned 2003)
Emblem of the 665th Radar Squadron. Emblem of the 665th Air Defense Group. Calumet Air Force Station is a closed United States Air Force General Surveillance Radar station. It is located 5.2 miles (8.4 km) east-northeast of Phoenix, Michigan. It was closed in 1988 by the Air Force, and turned over to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).
It's not uncommon for major organizations to leave Michigan Upper Peninsula completely out of maps or labeled as part of Wisconsin. 7 times Michigan's Upper Peninsula was left off maps or labeled ...
Fort Yuma. Oakland Army Base. Mare Island Naval Shipyard. Mather Air Force Base. McClellan Air Force Base. Presidio of San Francisco. Sacramento Army Depot. San Carlos War Dog Training Center. Colorado.