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California World War II Army Airfields
Part of World War II
File:California-aaf-map.jpg Locations of major World War II USAAF Airfields in Arkansas
Type	Army Airfields
Site information
Controlled by	United States Army Air Forces
Site history
Built	1940-1944
In use	1940-Present
Garrison information
Garrison	Army Air Force Training Command

During World War II, California was a major United States Army Air Force (USAAF) training center for pilots and aircrews of USAAF fighters and bombers.

The USAAF established Fourty-Two major airfields under the command of Fourth Air Force, headquartered at Hamilton Army Airfield, California between 1942 and 1945, along with several minor auxillary fields and airsrips.

• Bishop AAF
• Blythe AAF
• Chico AAF
• Concord AAF
• Delano AAF
• Desert Center AAF
• Estrella AAF
• Fairfield-Suisun AAF
• Gardner Field
• Hamilton Field
• Hammer Field
• Hayward AAF
• Lemoore AAF
• Long Beach AAF
• March Field
• Marysville AAF
• Mather Field
• McClellan Field
• Merced AAF
• Minter Field
• Moffett Field
• Muroc AAF
• Needles AAF
• Ontario AAF
• Orange County AAF
• Oroville AAF
• Palm Springs AAF
• Palmdale AAF
• Porterville AAF
• Redding AAF
• Rice AAF
• Salinas AAB
• San Bernardino AAF
• San Nicholas Island AAF
• Santa Ana AAB
• Santa Maria AAF
• Santa Rosa AAF
• Shavers Summit AAF
• Stockton Field
• Thermal AAF
• Victorville AAF
• Visalia AAF

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• Third Air Force
• United States Army Air Force

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• Thole, Lou (1999), Forgotten Fields of America : World War II Bases and Training, Then and Now - Vol. 2. Pictorial Histories Pub . ISBN 1575100517