Nellis Air Force Base (Nev.)

found: Calif. State Auto. Assoc. Nevada Division. Las Vegas ... 1976 (a.e.)map recto (Nellis Air Force Base)

found: GNIS (USGS) BGN dom. infor. WWW, 07-08-96(Nellis Air Force Base, AFB: 36°14ʹ32ʺN, 11°50ʹ24ʺW, near Las Vegas, Nevada: variant: Nellis AFB; was Army Air Field Branch for Oct. 1944 to Jan. 1949, then Air Force Base Branch from Feb. 1949 to Apr. 1950, and from May 1950 renamed Nellis Air Force Base)

found: Nellis AFB website, Jan. 2, 2014:History page (Las Vegas Army Air Corps Gunnery School was established on the new Las Vegas Army Air Field in early 1941 for training of gunners during WWII; the field was inactivated Jan. 31, 1947; reactivated Mar. 31, 1948 as the Las Vegas Air Force Base (LVAFB); renamed Nellis Air Force Base in 1950 in honor or 1st Lt. William Harrel Nellis who was KIA over Luxembourg on Dec. 27, 1944)

found: GNIS, July 28, 2021(Nellis Air Force Base, military, Clark County, Nevada, 36.2490282 -114.9962155, 36°14ʹ57ʺN 114°59ʹ46ʺW; also lists Nellis Air Force Base, airport, Clark County, Nevada)