Nellis Air Force Base
United States Air Force Air Demonstration Squadron ("Thunderbirds").
F-100 fighter aircrafts over Nellis Air Force Base in the 1950s.
Nellis Air Force Base Chapel.
Lomie G. Heard Elementary School. Built in 1951. Seperated from the Clark County School District in 2016. Currently operates as a charter school.
Photograph of Nellis Air Force Base Elementary School, Las Vegas, circa 1950s to 1960s. North Las Vegas Library Collection. UNLV Libraries Special Collections & Archives.
Photograph of Pat McCarran at McCarran Airport, Las Vegas, 1941. Nellis Air Force Base Photograph Collection. UNLV Libraries Special Collections & Archives.
The land previously occupied the Western Air Express Field in the 1930s. Field renamed McCarran Field in honor of Nevada Senator Patrick McCarran in 1941. The city leased the field to the United States Army Air Corps in 1941. The base shuts down in 1945. Reopens in 1949 as Las Vegas Air Force Base. Renamed Nellis Air Force Base in honor of the late Lieutenant William Harrell Nellis in 1950.