MAKE A MEME View Large Image Aerial view of NAS Corpus Christi c1941.jpg Aerial view of the U S Naval Air Station Corpus Christi Texas USA circa in 1941 In response to the expansion of naval aviation during the late-1930s the Navy selected a site near Corpus Christi ...
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Keywords: Aerial view of NAS Corpus Christi c1941.jpg Aerial view of the U S Naval Air Station Corpus Christi Texas USA circa in 1941 In response to the expansion of naval aviation during the late-1930s the Navy selected a site near Corpus Christi for the construction of an air station devoted to training Commissioned on 12 March 1941 with Congressman Lyndon Johnson present at the ceremonies NAS Corpus Christi began instructing its first cadets the following month On 1 November 1941 the station graduated its first naval aviators During the war years with the opening of Rodd Field Cabaniss Field Cuddihy Field Waldron Field and an auxiliary field at Beeville Texas the Naval Air Training Center at Corpus Christi graduated thousands of naval aviators http //collections naval aviation museum/emuwebdoncoms/pages/doncoms/AdvQuery php U S Navy National Museum of Naval Aviation photo No http //collections naval aviation museum/emuwebdoncoms/pages/doncoms/Display php irn 16049185 QueryPage 2Femuwebdoncoms 2Fpages 2Fdoncoms 2FAdvQuery php 2001 205 042 ca 1941 U S Navy PD-USGov-Military-Navy Naval Air Station Corpus Christi
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