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Captured is construction at key facilities of the Sacramento Air Depot in the early half of 1939. The base was officially dedicated on April 29, 1939, not long after this photograph was taken. The right side of the photograph shows the base's headquarters, hospital, and fire department under construction. The left side of the photograph shows the development of the officers' quarters. On December 1, 1939, it was renamed after aviation pioneer Major Hezekiah McClellan who had died in a fight-testing accident just three years before. The air base would continue to expand exponentially after the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, hiring additional civilian and military personnel in the thousands to accommodate wartime demand. By 1943, the number of workers at the McClellan Air Force Base reached 22,000.
Airplanes Architecture, Historic Buildings, Government Construction Fire Departments Hospitals Military Facilities Military Personnel World War, 1939-1945
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