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Mcclellan Air Force Base 1954
1954rif. A40785Baton Rouge La: Army & Navy Publishing Co Inc. Very Good. 1954. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. Color and B&W illustrations; This is an oversized book. THe book is in Very Good condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The front spint joint has some lighyt fading and beginning cracking due to dryness. The text pages are clean and bright. Mostly a yearbook for the Directorate of Maintenance Engineering but also included is a short history of the base. "For the vast majority of its operational lifetime McClellan was a logistics and maintenance facility for a wide variety of military aircraft equipment and supplies. Initially known as the Pacific Air Depot and Sacramento Air Depot in 1939 the base was renamed for Major Hezekiah McClellan a pioneer in arctic aeronautical tests. Born in 1894 he died on 25 May 1936 when his Consolidated P-30 which he was flight testing crashed near Centerville Ohio. The depot went through several name changes finishing its life in 1995 as the Sacramento Air Logistics Center SALC. The SALC reported to the Air Force Logistics Command AFLC and later the Air Force Materiel Command AFMC. " from Wikipedia . Army & Navy Publishing Co, Inc. hardcover
