Naval Station Norfolk is a United States Navy base in Norfolk, Virginia, that is the headquarters and home port of the U.S. Navy's Fleet Forces Command. The installation occupies about 4 miles of wate
Destroyers, replenishment oilers, cruisers, submarines, frigates, aircraft carriers and some other ships and an amphibious assault ship in Naval Station Norfolk. Pictured in December 2012.
Aircraft carrier USS Yorktown docked at then–NOB Norfolk in October 1937.
Iowa-class battleships USS New Jersey and USS Missouri at NS Norfolk in 1954.
Naval Station Norfolk Chambers Field, or LP-1/Chambers Field, commonly known as Chambers Field, is named after Captain Washington Irving Chambers. It is a military airport in Norfolk, Virginia that is
Naval Station Norfolk
…the largest concentration of U.S. Navy forces, with 75 ships alongside 14 piers, and 134 aircraft and 11 aircraft hangars at the adjacently operated Chambers Field. Port Services controls more than 3,100 ships' movements annually as they arrive and depart their berths. Air Operations conducts over 100,000 flight…
MH-60S Seahawks of HSC-22 prepare for take off at Chambers Field
Aerial view of NAS Norfolk in the mid-1940s
P5M Marlins at NAS Norfolk in the 1950s.
Chambers Field Building LP-1, NAS Norfolk, in 1982, control tower and air traffic control offices. Building was located on the northwest corner of intersecting runways 10/28 and 1/19. Building no longer exists.