Nellis Air Force Base
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Nellis Air Force Base is a United States Air Force installation in southern Nevada. Nellis hosts air combat exercises such as Exercise Red Flag and close air support exercises such as Green Flag-West
An aerial view of Nellis AFB taken in 2014
The Las Vegas Army Airfield had three runways in 1942, the year Tonopah Army Airfield opened in August (the Tonopah Bombing Range had been divided in 1941 into the Tonopah and Las Vegas General Ranges).
3595th PTW F-51D c. 1950 at a Nellis hangar
Fighter Weapons School F-80As c. 1950 in front of Frenchman Mountain, which is east of the valley
The Nevada Test and Training Range is one of two military training areas at the Nellis Air Force Base Complex in Nevada and used by the United States Air Force Warfare Center at Nellis Air Force Base.
Nellis Air Force Base
…Exercise Red Flag and close air support exercises such as Green Flag-West flown in "Military Operations Area (MOA) airspace", associated with the nearby Nevada Test and Training Range (NTTR). The base also has the Combined Air and Space Operations Center-Nellis. After World War I, Nevada and other western inland states were surveyed…
An A-10 Thunderbolt II releases its munitions during a close air support training mission on September 23, 2011