Search Results: Abandoned Military Site
An abandoned military launch site, consisting of a weathered bunker and a launch pad. Located in Utah's West Desert, adjacent to the unrelated Grassy Mountain Hazardous Waste dump. The site of the first successful test of the supersonic Ground to Air Pilotless Aircraft...
Rocket motors were produced in this now abandoned industrial complex during World War II and into the 1950's. In the production buildings, heavy walls of cement separated the assembly alcoves from one another, with a shared glass wall to permit an explosion to escape...
For over 50 years, Skaggs Island was a secretive, secure, and self-contained naval base, engaged in a number of communications and intelligence gathering functions for the Navy and other federal intelligence organizations. Direction-finding high-frequency antennas, for...
At a remote desert site six miles north of Kramer Junction is a former Federal Prison Camp, which closed in April, 2000. It was one of around 47 minimum security federal prison camps in the country, and housed about 540 male inmates. Workers in the prison assembled...
During WWII there were 11 military installations on this remote island in the Aleutian Chain, covering approximately 188,420 acres. The primary installation was the Dutch Harbor Navy Base, which was attacked by Japanese aircraft in 1942, but was only partially damaged...
Hamilton Field is the oldest of the recent base closure and conversion sites around the Bay, and an indication, perhaps, of the decades it can take for such redevelopment projects to come to fruition. Constructed in 1931 as a bomber base, it became a refugee center...
Today, the old airbase is abandoned and partially converted to civilian use. In 1943 Wendover Airbase was one of the largest military reserves in the world. 23,000 military personnel were based in 668 buildings and trained on 3.5 million acres of the surrounding...
Once a test area on the southwest edge of the Salton Sea, the base is now abandoned, with all or most of the buildings torn down. In the 1950's the area was used by Sandia National Labs, based in Albuquerque, New Mexico, as a range for missile testing (Sandia relocated...
This is an interesting airport, emerging from the remains of George Air Force Base, which was closed down in 1992. Much of the former base is abandoned and in a state of slow decay, but as many of the buildings were constructed during the 1970's and early 1980's, they...
Located in the southeastern corner of Georgia on 16,000 coastal acres, Kings Bay is a major submarine base, providing operational support for all the East Coast's Trident nuclear submarines. The 25 square mile site was originally developed as a munitions storage and...
A former defense site outside of St. Louis is now an environmental research facility, operated by Washington University. The site was developed as a weapons assembly, storage and training facility by the military during WWII. Structures included 52 munition storage...