Oxnard Air Force Base (1940–1945, 1951–1970) is a former United States Air Force base located within current city limits, approximately 3 miles (4.8 km) west of central Camarillo, California. A fighter training airfield during World War II, it was part of Air Defense Command during the Cold War as a fighter-interceptor base.
Famous quotes containing the words air, force and/or base:
“Mothers of America
let your kids go to the movies!
get them out of the house so they won’t know what you’re up to
it’s true that fresh air is good for the body
but what about the soul
that grows in darkness, embossed by silvery images”
—Frank O’Hara (1926–1966)
“The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Goebbels and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.”
—Nadine Gordimer (b. 1923)
“They must to keep their certainty accuse
All that are different of a base intent;
Pull down established honour; hawk for news
Whatever their loose phantasy invent
And murmur it with bated breath....”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)