Grissom Air Force Base (Ind.)
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Name (Latin)
Grissom Air Force Base (Ind.)
Other forms of name
United States. Grissom Air Force Base
United States. Air Force. Grissom Air Force Base
Grissom A.F.B. (Ind.)
nnaa Grissom Air Force Base
Coordinates
-86.15211944 -86.15211944 40.64809444 40.64809444 (gooearth )
Associated country
United States
MARC
MARC
Sources of Information
- Bunker Hill and Grissom Air Force Base, c2016:t.p. (Bunker Hill and Grissom Air Force Base)
- grissom.afrc.af.mil, Aug. 25, 2016:(Its history began on July 1, 1942; opended by the U.S. Navy as Bunker Hill Naval Air Station; after World War II the base was closed; reopened by the Air Force as Bunker Hill Air Force Base on June 22, 1954; was renamed [Grissom Air Force Base] on May 12, 1968 in honor of Lieutenant Colonel Virgil "Gus" Grissom; killed during a fire in his Apollo capsule at Cape Kennedy, Fla.; deactivated in 1994; October of that year realigned as an Air Force Reserve Command facility; Grissom Air Reserve Base)
- Family housing brochure, 1983:t.p. (Department of the Air Force, Grissom Air Force Base, Indiana; Grissom A.F.B.)
- LC data base, 12/5/83(hdg.: Grissom Air Force Base)