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- Rice Army Air
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- Rice
Army Air Field, 1942 (courtesy San Bernardino County Library).
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- Located two miles southeast
of the town of Rice, Rice AAF was a small airfield and a sub-base
of Thermal Army Air Field and later, San Bernardino Army Air
Field. It was used to train pilots and crews of aircraft whose
mission it was to support ground troops. This included a wide
variety of aircraft from observation planes to bombers. The airfield
consisted of two paved 5,000' runways and numerous dispersal
pads extending off the runways to the south.
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- In order to house the
more than 3,000 men, the Army constructed temporary barracks
and other buildings. By 1944, the airfield was assigned to March Field as a sub-base. Rice Army Air Field
was closed later mid-1944, and declared surplus at the end of
1944.
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- Source: World War II Sites in
the United States: A Tour Guide and Directory by Richard E. Osbourne
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