McClellan Air Force Base (CA) (Images of America) | 
 enlarge | Author: Kyle Byard And Tom Naiman
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Category: Book
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Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 1264258
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 128
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.5 x 0.4
ISBN: 073854762X
Dewey Decimal Number: 358.4170979453
EAN: 9780738547626
ASIN: 073854762X
Publication Date: July 9, 2007
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McClellan Air Force Base has been a part of Californias military and aviation history since the mid-1930s. Originally named Pacific Air Depot in 1935, the bases name was changed to the Sacramento Air Depot in 1938, and it became a repair facility for such fighter planes as the P-38 and P-39. During World War II, the base saw significant use in outfitting and supplying munitions for various fighters, including the B-17. Many armed-services personnel departed from McClellan for the Pacific theater, including in part Jimmy Doolittles famed detail of B-25s, which attacked Tokyo in 1942. After the war, the base stored many types of aircraft, including the B-29 bomber series, and in 1948, changed its name to McClellan Air Force Base, continuing its mission of overhauling and retrofitting planes throughout the cold war.
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McClellan Air Force Base August 24, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book is great if you like the early days of McClellan. I only wish it had more photographs of the later days before McClellan closed. Not enough information on the entire base. Someone needs to add a second book to this series that would cover the years from 1962-2007 better. Allot of history occurred during this time frame at McClellan. All in all the early year coverage was pretty good.
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