You also might also add that primary flight training was conducted at
Oakland and moved to Livermore when it opened.


On Sun, 24 Oct 2004 02:28:46 GMT, "Steven P. McNicoll"
wrote:


"Jdf4cheval" wrote in message
...

Over a few beers today with a former Marine and sailor from the Fifties,
"NAS Oakland" was mentioned. The Marine recalled it was in the old
section of what is now Oakland International Airport. One of the surviving
buildings may still have Navy wings on it. Has anyone else heard of NAS
OAKLAND?


Sure. The Navy formed an NRAB at the Oakland airport in 1928. It became a
Naval Air Transport Service Terminal in 1942 and was upgraded to a NAS in
January 1943. When Livermore was commissioned in June 1943 Oakland was
reduced to a NAAS under Alameda. Following the war the Navy began reserve
activities at Oakland, the facility became a NAS again in 1946. It closed
in 1961 and the reserve mission moved to Alameda.