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    Hobbs Army Airfield (IATA: HAAF, ICAO: KHAAF) was an airfield used during World War II by the United States Army Air Forces Air Training Command as part...
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  • men located four miles north-west of Hobbs, New Mexico, opened in 1998 on 60 acres of the former Hobbs Army Airfield, now adjacent to the Lea County Regional...
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    World War II, Hobbs Army Airfield was built north of town in 1942. In 1948, the city bought the air base and converted it into the Hobbs Industrial Air...
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    operational questions were conducted. In one incident, the Carlsbad Army Airfield Auxiliary Air Base (32°15′39″N 104°13′45″W / 32.26083°N 104.22917°W...
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    commissioned into the Army. He went so far as to order himself a lieutenant colonel's uniform and take the Army physical test, which he failed. Army doctors considered...
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  • Municipal Airport (IATA: FSU, ICAO: KFSU) Hobbs AAF, Hobbs Was: Hobbs Army Airfield (1942-1948) Now: Hobbs Industrial Air Park Roswell AAF, Roswell Was:...
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    the first detonation of a nuclear weapon, conducted by the United States Army at 5:29 a.m. MWT (11:29:21 GMT) on July 16, 1945, as part of the Manhattan...
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    base and airfield to be activated and assigned to the United States Army Air Corps Training Command on 20 September 1941. The Roswell Army Flying School...
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    S. Army Corps of Engineers. Nuclear physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer was the director of the Los Alamos Laboratory that designed the bombs. The Army program...
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