{"id":3743,"date":"2018-12-02T13:59:59","date_gmt":"2018-12-02T19:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/?page_id=3743"},"modified":"2018-12-02T14:06:34","modified_gmt":"2018-12-02T20:06:34","slug":"gila-bend-army-air-field","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/places\/gila-bend-army-air-field\/","title":{"rendered":"Gila Bend Army Air Field"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpt From Wikipedia:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>The facility was opened in July 1942 when it was part of the Gila Bend Gunnery Range. During\u00a0<a title=\"World War II\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/World_War_II\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">World War II<\/a>\u00a0it was under the command of the 492d (Reduced) Army Air Force Base Unit, AAF West Coast Training Center. It served as the range headquarters for a massive bombing and gunnery range, now known as the Barry M. Goldwater Range, and for maintenance of the range and range targets. It remained an active Air Force facility manned by USAF personnel until approximately 1995. It was also used as an auxiliary landing field. As of 2011, this role is handled by private contractors utilizing portions of the facility.<sup id=\"cite_ref-3\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gila_Bend_Air_Force_Auxiliary_Field#cite_note-3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">[3]<\/a><\/sup><\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3745\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3745\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Screen-Shot-2018-12-02-at-1.58.04-PM.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3745\" src=\"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Screen-Shot-2018-12-02-at-1.58.04-PM-300x136.png\" alt=\"Gila Bend Army Air Field from Google Maps\" width=\"300\" height=\"136\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Screen-Shot-2018-12-02-at-1.58.04-PM-300x136.png 300w, https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Screen-Shot-2018-12-02-at-1.58.04-PM-768x348.png 768w, https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Screen-Shot-2018-12-02-at-1.58.04-PM-1024x463.png 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3745\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gila Bend Army Air Field from Google Maps<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Tom was assigned to this base in 1944 for gunnery training.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3247\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3247\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Gila-Bend-AAF-1943.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3247\" src=\"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Gila-Bend-AAF-1943-300x235.jpg\" alt=\"An aerial view of Gila Bend Army Airfield, Ariz., in 1943. The airbase is adjacent to the Barrry M. Goldwater range and is still in use today. (Courtesy photo)\" width=\"300\" height=\"235\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Gila-Bend-AAF-1943-300x235.jpg 300w, https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Gila-Bend-AAF-1943-768x602.jpg 768w, https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Gila-Bend-AAF-1943-1024x802.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3247\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">An aerial view of Gila Bend Army Airfield, Ariz., in 1943. The airbase is adjacent to the Barrry M. Goldwater range and is still in use today. (Courtesy photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpt From Wikipedia: The facility was opened in July 1942 when it was part of the Gila Bend Gunnery Range. During\u00a0World War II\u00a0it was under the command of the 492d (Reduced) Army Air Force Base Unit, AAF West Coast Training Center. It served as the range headquarters for a massive bombing and gunnery range, now &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/places\/gila-bend-army-air-field\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Gila Bend Army Air Field<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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-3743","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3743","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=3743"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3750,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3743\/revisions\/3750"}],"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=3743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}