Constructed during America's rush to mobilize for World War I, Camp Gordon was one of 16 temporary training camps, the largest in the southern states and
the focus of Atlanta's wartime patriotic spirit. It served as birthplace and training ground . . . — — Map (db m14570) HM
Anticipating America's involvement in a second world war, the government returned to the site of Camp Gordon in October 1940 and over the next seven
months constructed a 400-acre Naval Reserve Aviation Base at the DeKalb County Airport. . . . — — Map (db m14571) HM
AD 4 Skyraider
Navy Attack Plane
Donated to the City of Chamblee
and DeKalb County
by the Officers and Men
of the Naval Air Reserve
in honor of those
who trained and flew
from this field
1941 - 1959 — — Map (db m303536) WM
With the onset of World War II, Henry F. Doc Manget, Jr., interrupted his medical training at Emory University to enlist in the Navy. Assigned to the newly constructed Naval Reserve Aviation Base at this site, he began primary flight training on 12 . . . — — Map (db m303541) HM WM
July 18, 1864. The marching columns of the Army of the Tenn. (US), having diverged 5.5 mi. N.W., rejoined here when Dodge's 16th A.C. moved E. from Old Cross Keys to Rainey's. Blair's 17th A.C. moved 1.75 mi. S. on old Shallow Ford rd. & camped at . . . — — Map (db m9417) HM
