Savannah attractions include historic tours, ghost tours, and informal explorations of the Savannah Historic District. While there are no major league sports in Savannah, the city has been home to the Savannah Bananas of the Coastal Plain Baseball League with home games played at Grayson Stadium. Since Hunter Army Airfield is a subordinate operation of Fort Stewart, all inbound new arrivals are directed to check in with the Reception Center at Fort Stewart unless specifically ordered to do otherwise.
According to Army sources, most new arrivals will spend multiple days inprocessing at Fort Stewart and there are documents which must be hand carried to these inprocessing appointments including travel paperwork, shot records for all dependents, and travel receipts for travel voucher filing.
Most other details about in-processing should be supplied for the new arrivals by the sponsor. If you do not have a sponsor prior to your PCS to Hunter Army Airfield, contact your gaining orderly room for assistance. Hunter Airfield healthcare is provided by the Tuttle Army Health Clinic, which operates during normal duty hours and is closed on weekends.
Hunter official site information on the clinic states that in many cases if care is not available on-post, those services may be provided at Fort Stewart via Winn Army Community Hospital. Call to schedule an appointment or get more information about healthcare options at Hunter Airfield. Child Development Center care is offered as full day care, Pre-K, Respite Care, and hourly care may be offered on a space-available basis.
The phone numbers are:. Two forms of unexpired picture ID from acceptable sources government-issued ID cards, for example are required for all ID card services and the sponsoring military member must be present for ID card services for dependents unless there is a power of attorney or other arrangement made.
Lt Col Hunter, who would later climb to the rank of Major General , was not scheduled to appear in Savannah that week. At the end of the war, the Hunter was used as a Separation Center for the discharge and furlough of servicemembers returning from Europe. In June , the airfield was returned to the City of Savannah. From to , many of its buildings were leased to industrial plants. The University of Georgia established an extension campus on part of the old base, as well.
The limited facilities at the base, located eight miles 13 km northwest of Savannah, made the site unfit for permanent use. Military installation named for a living American, MGen Ret. Frank O'D. Hunter Vietnam War In , the Department of Defense announced that the base would be closed, along with 94 other military installations. The Air Force was given a period of three years to phase out operations. Then, in December , at the height of the Vietnam conflict , the Department of the Army announced that the Secretary of Defense had approved an increase in the number of Army helicopter pilots to be trained.
Hunter Air Force Base was turned over to the Army and operated in conjunction with Fort Stewart, located convert 45 mi km southwest of Hunter. The first Savannah-based flying service, Strachan Skyways, moved into this hangar after it was built.
Henry G. Hunter Army Airfield was named after Hunter in When Hitler invaded Poland in September , the U. Army had , men, ranking 17th in the world—weaker than both the Dutch and Romanian armies.
Meanwhile, the Japanese, locked in combat with the Chinese since , were looking to expand their empire in Asia. The Air Corps, part of the Army at the time, had only 2, obsolete aircraft stationed at 24 airfields around the country.
Europe and China were engulfed in war, and although the U. Still, the war seemed far away from Savannah in that late summer. The Air Corps commissioned Sandy Strachan a lieutenant in September, but business continued as usual at the airport.
In , the city built a permanent municipal airport building to house growing administrative activities of the airport. In , the U. The government increased funding for new equipment and bases and instituted a peace-time draft. A primary beneficiary of this new bounty was the Air Corps, which by had grown to over 25, personnel and 4, aircraft.
The Air Corps needed new airbases to accommodate its growth, and in August , selected Hunter Field as a light bomber training base. Within two months, the Air Corps transferred 3, personnel of the 3rd and 27th Bomb Groups, and a hundred A trainers, A light bombers, and B medium bombers to the new base, sharing the airfield with the civilian airport. Within nine months the military had constructed an entire cantonment north of the runways, featuring over facilities including barracks, warehouses, a hospital, hangars, and operations buildings.
The threat of war had transformed the sleepy southern airfield into a bustling military installation. The 3rd and 27th Bomb Groups trained at Hunter Field throughout , participating in large-scale Army maneuvers in the Carolinas.
On Dec. All passes from Hunter Field were immediately canceled and airmen required to wear uniforms at all times. The U. From to , the base grew to a population of 10,, expanded its boundaries from to nearly 3, acres, built six additional cantonments and tent camps at the installation, expanded runway capacity, built aircraft parking aprons, and trained ground support squadrons, bomber groups, and fighter groups.
Units trained at Hunter Field later saw active combat in all major theaters of war, including the China-Burma India Theater, the Pacific, and in Europe. Over the past 60 years the installation has demolished most of its World War II buildings. World War II structures that remain include a water tower, an abandoned ammunition storage area, a heat plant, two bomb sight storage facilities, the sewage treatment plant, the small arms range used in World War II to test fire and sight in aircraft-mounted machineguns and cannon , three hangars and various administration buildings and warehouses.
This operation was cut short on 6 August , when the B Enola Gay, piloted by Colonel Paul Tibbetts, dropped a terrible new weapon—an atom bomb—on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, killing , Japanese. A second bomb dropped on Nagasaki prompted the Japanese government to surrender unconditionally. The mushroom clouds over Hiroshima and Nagasaki marked the final act of World War II and ushered in an era of global uncertainty. Would the destructive power of the bomb force an end to war? Or would the bomb lead to an end to humanity?
Businessmen converted buildings to industrial plants, commercial businesses, and even apartments. The University of Georgia, overwhelmed with returning veterans, even opened a satellite campus on the old airbase. As the s ended, the Soviet Union, formerly a World War II ally, showed itself under the dictator Josef Stalin, to be an implacable foe of western capitalism and democracy. The Soviets took control of Eastern European nations, attempted a blockade of Berlin in , and exploded their own atomic weapon in Because of its role in atomic bomb deployment, the Air Force became the most important branch of the service.
In , there were less than 60 atomic bombs in the U. By , SAC consisted of 14 bomb wings, flying mostly B and B propeller medium bombers, or huge B piston-pull heavy bombers. Like the Q Areas, SAC based its bombers primarily in the southeast and southwest parts of the country. However, Chatham Field had inadequate barracks and operations facilities, and proved unsatisfactory for SAC.
SAC accepted and in September , the switch occurred. Buildings creaked with rotten siding and broken windows, while asphalt roads showed ruts and holes, and grass grew through the pavement of aircraft parking aprons. A land conflict in Asia soon accelerated the pace of base construction and development. During the Korean War, the U. In , Dwight D. Eisenhower was elected President.
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