{"id":3273,"date":"2018-10-04T18:46:41","date_gmt":"2018-10-04T18:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/?page_id=3273"},"modified":"2018-10-04T18:47:43","modified_gmt":"2018-10-04T18:47:43","slug":"mather-army-air-force-base","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/places\/mather-army-air-force-base\/","title":{"rendered":"Mather Army Air Force Base"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Mather Army Air Force Base<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Mather Field was established as a training base and airfield during the latter part of World War I. It was located 12 miles south east of Sacramento, California. After WWI, it fell into disuse and was subsequently closed and dismantled. But in the 1930’s, it was reopened as a sub-field of the Presidio and Hamilton Fields.<\/p>\n

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Mather Field was reestablished as a separate post and activated on 13 May 1941. The field area was increased from 872 to 4,418 acres (17.88\u00a0km2<\/sup>) in June 1941.<\/p>\n

Initially,\u00a0 Mather Field was the site for advanced navigator training. But\u00a0in 1943,\u00a0Army Air Forces Training Command<\/a>\u00a0transferred the Navigator School from Mather Field to Ellington Field, near Houston, Texas.[3]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

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Mather Field, 1941<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Mather became a twin-engine Advanced Flying School, training pilots on\u00a0North American B-25 Mitchell<\/a>\u00a0medium bombers. In 1944\u201345 it became an aerial port of embarkation to the Pacific in preparation for the expected transfer of large numbers of men and aircraft from Europe to the Pacific.[3]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

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B-25 used for training at Mather Field<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In the 1990s, the base was closed and most of its facilities transferred to Sacramento County, which continues to operate the airport, primarily for general aviation and air taxi services.<\/p>\n

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Mather Field was established as a training base and airfield during the latter part of World War I. It was located 12 miles south east of Sacramento, California. After WWI, it fell into disuse and was subsequently closed and dismantled. But in the 1930’s, it was reopened as a sub-field of the Presidio and Hamilton … Continue reading Mather Army Air Force Base<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":52,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3273","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3273"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3278,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3273\/revisions\/3278"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/52"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}