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| Waller Air Force Base | |
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| Part of Sixth Air Force | |
| Located in Trinidad | |
| Coordinates | 10°36′48.87″N 061°12′48.30″W / 10.6135750°N 61.2134167°W |
| Type | Military Airfield |
| Site information | |
| Controlled by | United States Air Force |
| Site history | |
| Built | 1941 |
| In use | 1941-1949 |
Waller Air Force Base is a former United States Army Air Forces World War II air base on Trinidad.
The American rights to the airfield were obtained via the Destroyers for Bases Agreement in September 1940 when the United States transferred fifty destroyers to Great Britain in exchange for Army and Navy base rights on British possessions in the Americas.
The airfield was redesignated Waller Air Force Base on March 26, 1948, by the Department of the Air Force General Order Number 10. Waller AFB closed in 1949 due to budgetary cutbacks.
Today the former air base is all but abandoned.
References
This article incorporates public domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency
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Previously: Panama Canal Air Force (1940-1941); Caribbean Air Force (1941-1942) | |||||||||||||||
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