• The War Assets Administration (WAA) was created to dispose of United States government-owned surplus material and property from World War II. The WAA...
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    Agency, including the Public Buildings Administration and the Public Roads Administration War Assets Administration GSA became an independent agency on July...
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    1st Administrator of General Services, the administrator of the War Assets Administration, and as chairman and president of the Air Force Association, was...
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  • During World War II, Alaska was a major United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) location for personnel, aircraft, and airfields to support Lend-Lease aid...
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    the declaration of the main air base as surplus property by the War Assets Administration. At the time, doubt was expressed by local leaders that the field...
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    United States Army Air Forces. It provided air defense of Alaska during World War II and fought in the Aleutian Islands Campaign. It was re-designated as the...
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    Norman Cota (category United States Army personnel of World War I)
    In August, he was hired as administrator for Zone One of the War Assets Administration. In the late 1950s, he was the civil defense director for Montgomery...
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  • McNamee, theater manager and former regional director of the War Assets Administration Austin Meehan, sheriff of Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania Vincent...
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    Following the camp's closure, its land was divided up among the U.S. War Assets Administration, the North Carolina National Guard, the state of North Carolina...
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    Plant, which was later known as the Chicago Dodge Plant, from the War Assets Administration. The facility had previously been used to build the massive Wright...
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  • World War II for Henry Ford to make B-24 Liberator bombers. When the war ended Ford had no interest in the facility, and the War Assets Administration searched...
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    U.S. House seat. Jacobsen served as a liaison officer for the War Assets Administration, in Washington, D.C., from July 1945 to January 1947. He was later...
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    fuel and ammunition hulk in Nova Scotia until her return to the War Assets Administration for disposal in August 1945 when she was sold for scrapping. Milner...
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    San Francisco. They were then offered to Pan American by the War Assets Administration (WAA) at an asking price of $50,000 each. The last Pan American...
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    remain open as part of the Surplus Property Act of 1944 by the War Assets Administration. It was then used for general aviation. IBM built a hangar and...
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    mills to provide raw materials for his cars were rejected by the War Assets Administration under a shroud of questionable politics. Tucker had promised 150 hp...
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    in the area. In 1949, after the war, the City of Los Angeles purchased the airport from the War Assets Administration for $1, with the agreement that...
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    supporters (and Henry J. Kaiser's allies). In a bitter contrast, the War Assets Administration sold the government-built Geneva mill to competitor U.S. Steel...
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    Robert McGowan Littlejohn (category United States Army War College alumni)
    of the United States Harry S. Truman appointed him head of the War Assets Administration. Robert McGowan Littlejohn was born in Jonesville, South Carolina...
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    following year. After World War II ended, it was closed and turned over for local government use by the War Assets Administration (WAA). Throughout its history...
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    Jess Larson (category Administrators of the General Services Administration)
    first Administrator of General Services, the administrator of the War Assets Administration, and as chairman and president of the Air Force Association. Jess...
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  • agency of Nazi Germany Wales Airport (Alaska) Walla Walla language War Assets Administration West African Airlines, a Beninese airline Westair Aviation, a...
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    Navy transferred the airport and associated improvements to the War Assets Administration, which deeded the airport back to the Cities of Titusville and...
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  • its on site four unit coal fired generating station, smelting assets, and land assets with the remainder of the facility to be operated by Kaiser. Presently...
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    16, 1945, and transferred to the War Assets Administration (WAA) on January 23, 1947. The War Assets Administration turned the military airfield to civil...
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    turned over to the Army Corps of Engineers on October 1, 1946. The War Assets Administration deeded the facility to the city of Gainesville in 1948 as a civil...
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    over to the city of Greenwood by the War Assets Administration. As late as 1948, the Army and War Assets Administration maintained a fire station and a small...
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    as a military airfield in November 1945 and turned over to the War Assets Administration for conveyance to civil control as a public airport. The Naples...
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  • hospital was quickly transferred to the Territory of Alaska by the War Assets Administration, and it was operated as a tuberculosis sanitorium until 1957....
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    1946, the War Department notified Texas members of Congress that the camp had been declared "surplus." The Civilian War Assets Administration was to take...
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