{"id":4166,"date":"2019-02-02T11:04:45","date_gmt":"2019-02-02T17:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/?page_id=4166"},"modified":"2019-02-02T11:04:45","modified_gmt":"2019-02-02T17:04:45","slug":"hammer-army-air-field","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/places\/hammer-army-air-field\/","title":{"rendered":"Hammer Army Air Field"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hammer Field 1944<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

From Wikipedia<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The Fresno Yosemite International Airport opened as a military airfield in June 1942, just six months after Japan’s\u00a0attack on Pearl Harbor<\/a>, leading the United States to enter\u00a0World War II<\/a>. The new airfield was named Hammer Field and was used by the\u00a0United States Army Air Forces<\/a>\u00a0as a training facility for the new pilots of the\u00a0Fourth Air Force<\/a>. It had a single northwest\/southeast oriented runway with a length of 7,200 feet (now runway 11L\/29R).[3]<\/a><\/sup><\/em><\/p>\n

At the time, civil and commercial aviation used\u00a0Chandler Field<\/a>\u00a0that had opened in November 1929.[4]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0Chandler is 1.5 miles (2.4\u00a0km) west of downtown Fresno, on a small site. Less than a decade after it opened, it was clear that the small runway at Chandler would not be able to accommodate coming larger airliners.[4]<\/a><\/sup><\/em><\/p>\n

After World War II, Hammer Field was inactivated by the Army Air Forces and the city of Fresno saw an opportunity to use the site to create a commercial airport much larger than Chandler Field. In 1946 the\u00a0War Assets Administration<\/a>\u00a0reallocated the property to the city, which immediately began construction on a passenger terminal on the northeast side of the airfield. In 1948, the newly renamed Fresno Air Terminal (FAT) opened.\u00a0Trans World Airlines<\/a>\u00a0(TWA) and\u00a0United Airlines<\/a>\u00a0flights to San Francisco\/Oakland and Los Angeles moved from Chandler Field to the newly opened airport. Chandler Field was retained by the city of Fresno as a\u00a0reliever airport<\/a>\u00a0and continues to operate as the\u00a0Fresno Chandler Executive Airport<\/a>.[5]<\/a><\/sup>[4]<\/a><\/sup><\/em><\/p>\n ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From Wikipedia: The Fresno Yosemite International Airport opened as a military airfield in June 1942, just six months after Japan’s\u00a0attack on Pearl Harbor, leading the United States to enter\u00a0World War II. The new airfield was named Hammer Field and was used by the\u00a0United States Army Air Forces\u00a0as a training facility for the new pilots of … Continue reading Hammer Army Air Field<\/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-4166","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4166","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=4166"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4168,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4166\/revisions\/4168"}],"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=4166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}