Naval Auxiliary Landing Field Fentress (ICAO: KNFE, FAA LID: NFE) is a military use airport located in Chesapeake, Virginia. This military airport is owned...
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including various school houses, and Naval Auxiliary Landing Field Fentress, a practice carrier landing field, in nearby Chesapeake, VA. The air station...
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List of United States Navy airfields (redirect from List of US Naval Air Stations)
designated as Naval Air Stations or Naval Air Facilities, with Naval Outlying Landing Fields (NOLF) and Naval Auxiliary Landing Fields (NALF) having a...
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County, Tennessee Naval Auxiliary Landing Field Fentress, U.S. military use airport in Fentress, Chesapeake, Virginia Fentress Architects, international...
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operate the majority), they are known as naval outlying landing fields (NOLFs) or naval auxiliary landing fields (NALFs); when associated with United States...
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Naval Station Norfolk is a United States Navy base in Norfolk, Virginia, that is the headquarters and home port of the U.S. Navy's Fleet Forces Command...
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Norfolk Navy Base. Chesapeake is also home to U.S. Naval Auxiliary Landing Field Fentress, an auxiliary landing facility for NAS Oceana. The decision to call...
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Hampton Naval Air Station Oceana, in Virginia Beach Naval Amphibious Base Little Creek, in Virginia Beach Naval Auxiliary Landing Field Fentress, in Chesapeake...
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Louisiana KNFD – Naval Outlying Landing Field Summerdale – Summerdale, Alabama KNFE – Naval Auxiliary Landing Field Fentress – Chesapeake, Virginia KNFG (NFG) –...
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NFE may refer to: Naval Auxiliary Landing Field Fentress, a military airport in Virginia, USA (by FAA LID code) Nearly free electron model Non-formal education...
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The Norfolk Naval Shipyard, often called the Norfolk Navy Yard and abbreviated as NNSY, is a U.S. Navy facility in Portsmouth, Virginia, for building...
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assault in a bean field 12 miles (19 km) northeast of Norfolk was that, early in World War II, Navy planners saw a necessity for landing large numbers of...
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Naval Weapons Station Yorktown is a United States Navy base in York County, James City County, and Newport News in the Hampton Roads region of Virginia...
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The Naval Medical Center Portsmouth (NMCP), formerly Naval Hospital Portsmouth, and originally Norfolk Naval Hospital, is a United States Navy medical...
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the Naval Weapons Station Yorktown was created. At the outset of the War, the preliminary training of the Seabees had been carried out at Naval Training...
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manufacture propellants and explosives in support of field artillery, air defense, tank, missile, aircraft, and naval weapons systems. As of 2011 RFAAP is operated...
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his honor. Lt. Col. Charity Adams joined the newly created Women's Army Auxiliary Corps in 1942 and was the highest-ranking Black woman of World War II...
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American Revolutionary War, when the Quantico Creek village became a main naval base for the Commonwealth of Virginia's 72-vessel fleet on which many state...
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USS Fentress (AK-180/T-AK-180) was an Alamosa-class cargo ship acquired by the US Navy during the final months of World War II. In 1950, she was reactivated...
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Langley Air Force Base (redirect from Langley Field)
over-water flying, be flat and relatively clear for expansion and the landing and take-off of aircraft, and near an Army post. The Army appointed a board...
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a training site for corps and division-sized units. Commencing in 1944, field training for Officer Candidate School and enlisted replacements from nearby...
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Base East Shipyard Norfolk Naval Shipyard Naval Air Station NAS Oceana Auxiliary Landing Field NALF Fentress Medical Center Naval Medical Center Portsmouth...
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Phase II. By 2007, the U.S. Army War College, the College of Naval Warfare at the U.S. Naval War College, the Marine Corps War College and the Air War College...
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the American Civil War. It lies on the Atlantic coast slightly east of Naval Air Station Oceana. Since Camp Pendleton is owned by the State of Virginia...
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feet wide, the four-runway airfield was large enough to allow the safe landing of the Douglas C-47 "Gooney Bird." Fighter planes could use the runway...
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Hoover, Dwight D. Eisenhower, and Lyndon B. Johnson, is located on Summerall Field, 200 feet (61 m) northeast of the parade ground's flagpole. Due to its proximity...
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used to guard the entrance to Chesapeake Bay against an attack by hostile naval forces. The batteries that existed during World War II at Fort Story included:...
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March 1942 the Commandant of the 5th Naval District announced that the U.S. Naval Construction Training Center, Naval Operating Base Norfolk had been commissioned...
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Langley-Eustis and its former sub-installation Fort Story was re-aligned as a Naval installation. Joint Base Langley Eustis gained the U.S. Army Training and...
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enters a rural area in which it passes to the north of Naval Auxiliary Landing Field Fentress. The state highway curves north through a swamp, within...
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