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Brookley Air Force Base was named after Capt. Wendell H. Brookley (1896-1934), a former World War 1 US Army pilot. Brookley was killed on
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Orleans, first responders from across the Southeast and beyond, came to help. Among them was a team of 30 special agents from the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives (ATF) who made camp in a dorm on Brookley grounds for the entire month of September 2005. Mobile
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ties. McNamara claimed he had another agenda as he wanted to curb the Air Force's reliance on large aircraft in favor of long-range missiles and closing maintenance facilities such as
Brookley was a way to do that however, many former Brookley employees and Mobile residents dismissed that as just a
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was actually constructed and filmed in an abandoned aircraft hangar at the former
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The Air Force delivered 24 vessels to Mobile, Alabama, in spring 1944 to start conversion. Six
Liberty ships were converted into shops to repair aircraft. They were designated Aircraft Repair Units, Floating and were equipped to repair planes as big as the B-29 Stratofortresses. Eighteen smaller
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Aircraft Maintenance Units. They were made to repair fighter aircraft. About 5,000 men underwent a complex training process that prepared them to rebuild the vessels and operate them once on the water. By the end of the year, the vessels departed Mobile.
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513:Closure
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1587:Reeves
1562:McMinn
1486:Weedon
1476:Vaiden
1371:Lanett
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1291:Downer
1246:Camden
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1033:from
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170:Built
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2261:list
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