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George AFB

George Air Force Base
Victorville, California
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2006 USGS airphoto
George Air Force is located in California
George Air Force
George Air Force
Coordinates 34°35′41″N 117°23′03″W / 34.59472°N 117.38417°W / 34.59472; -117.38417Coordinates: 34°35′41″N 117°23′03″W / 34.59472°N 117.38417°W / 34.59472; -117.38417
Type Air Force Base
Site information
Controlled by United States Army Air Forces
United States Air Force
Condition Civilian Airport, private ownership
Site history
Built 1941
In use 1941–1992
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World War II
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Korean War
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Vietnam War
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1991 Gulf War (Defense of Saudi Arabia; Liberation of Kuwait)

George Air Force Base is a former United States Air Force base located within city limits, 8 miles northwest of central Victorville, California, about 75 miles northeast of Los Angeles, California. The facility was closed by the Base Realignment and Closure (or BRAC) 1992 commission at the end of the Cold War. It is now the site of Southern California Logistics Airport.

Established by the United States Army Air Corps as an Advanced Flying School in June 1941, it was closed at the end of World War II. It was again activated as a training base by the United States Air Force with the outbreak of the Korean War in November 1950. It remained a training base throughout the Cold War, primarily for Tactical Air Command training pilots in front-line USAF fighters until being closed in 1993.

Since 2009, the California Air National Guard's 196th Reconnaissance Squadron (96 RS) has operated an MQ-1 Predator Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) training facility at the Southern California Logistics Airport.

George Air Force Base was named in honor of Brigadier General Harold Huston George. He was a World War I fighter ace, serving with the 185th and 139th Aero Squadrons. At the beginning of World War II he was assigned to the V Interceptor Command, Far East Air Force in the Philippines. There, he directed air operations in defense of the fortified islands in Manila Bay. Withdrawn to Australia, he died on 29 April 1942 in an aircraft accident near Darwin, Northern Territory.


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