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==Notes==
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<ref name=AFHRA4095>{{Cite web |quote=Posted 7/12/2012 |title=Lieutenant William Harrell Nellis |url=http://www.nellis.af.mil/library/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=4095 |format=fact sheet |publisher=Nellis AFB Public Affairs |access-date=10 June 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101229125037/http://www.nellis.af.mil/library/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=4095 |archive-date=29 December 2010  }}</ref>
<ref name="fs">{{Cite web |url=http://www.nellis.af.mil/units/index.asp |title=Nellis AFB Factsheet |publisher=57th Wing/PA |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110610020719/http://www.nellis.af.mil/units/index.asp |archive-date=10 June 2011  }}</ref>

<!--ref name=Fallon>{{Cite web |year=2012 |title=Naval Air Station — Fallon |url=http://salutetofreedom.org/nv.html |format=Book quoted by webpage |access-date=9 June 2013 |quote=The Civil Aviation Administration and the Army Air Corps began construction of four airfields in the Nevada desert. … In 1943, the Navy assumed control of the two [USAAF] 5,200 foot runways. Construction soon began on barracks, hangars, air traffic control facilities and target ranges.}}</ref-->

<ref name=Manning>{{Cite book |last=Manning |first=Thomas A |year=2005 |title=History of Air Education and Training Command, 1942–2002 |url=https://archive.org/stream/historyofaireduc00gop/historyofaireduc00gop_djvu.txt |format=Report in Archive.org text format |publisher=AETC Office of History and Research  |access-date=9 June 2013 |quote=Throughout 1944, B-29 gunners received practically the same training as those for other aircraft, but at the end of the year a few of them began to receive training in B-24s modified by the addition of central fire control turrets to make them more like B-29s. Then, as the year progressed, [[Buckingham Field]], Florida; Las Vegas Field. Nevada; and [[Harlingen Field]], Texas, all began offering B-29 gunnery instruction … Among the training devices used in this instruction was the manipulation trainer – 12 towers arranged to resemble a formation of planes. The towers ranged in height from 10 to 40 feet, each equipped with 2 nose. 2 tail. 2 ring sighting, and 4 blister positions. As students in these positions faced simulated attacks from PT-13 and PT-17 aircraft, they "fired" camera guns at the attacking fighters. … Two hurricanes, one in September and the other in October, destroyed Boca Raton Field in Florida [which] accelerated the move of the radar school to Keesler}}&nbsp; {{OCLC|71006954|29991467}}</ref>
<ref name=Training>{{Cite book |last=Manning |first=Thomas A |year=2005 |chapter=Installations |title=History of Air Education and Training Command, 1942–2002 |chapter-url=https://archive.org/stream/historyofaireduc00gop/historyofaireduc00gop_djvu.txt |pages=42–[[To be determined|tbd]] |access-date=9 June 2013 |quote=Installations &nbsp;Las Vegas Field, Nevada&nbsp;Air Training Command inactivated the base on 31 December 1946. From its activation on 20 December 1941, Las Vegas AAF had conducted flying training.}}</ref>
<ref name=AppendixC>{{Cite book |last=Manning |first=Thomas A |year=2005 |chapter=Appendix C |title=History of Air Education and Training Command, 1942–2002 |chapter-url=https://archive.org/stream/historyofaireduc00gop/historyofaireduc00gop_djvu.txt |pages=350–360 |access-date=9 June 2013 |quote=Activated as Las Vegas AAF 20 Dec 41. Conducted flying training until inactivated 31 Dec 46. Activated 30 Aug 47 as a subinstallation of Mather AFB. Assigned as a subinstallation of Williams AAF 1 Apr 48 to provide advanced training for fighter pilots. Redesignated Nellis AFB and activated 30 Apr 50. Conducted flying and combat crew training until transferred to Tactical Air Command 1 Jul 58.}}&nbsp;{{OCLC|71006954|29991467}}</ref>

<ref name=Mueller>{{Cite report |last=Mueller |first=Robert |year=1989 |chapter=Nellis Air Force Base |title=Active Air Force Bases Within the United States of America on 17 September 1982: Nellis Air Force Base |chapter-url=http://media.defense.gov/2010/Sep/21/2001330255/-1/-1/0/AFD-100921-026.pdf |series=Reference series |volume=I |publisher=[[Maxwell Air Force Base|Office of Air Force History]] |isbn=0-912799-53-6 |pages=439–445 |access-date=6 June 2013}}</ref>

<ref name="Wilman">{{Cite book |last=Wilman |first=J. Catherene |year=1997 |title=A Pictorial History of Nellis Air Force Base 1941–1996 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gcLkHAAACAAJ |publisher=Nellis AFB Office of History}}</ref>
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