A history of Dover Base Housing,
then and now
Postcards, papers and photographs of Dover Base Housing from public archives, woven together by decade. Neighbors fill in the gaps.
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗Construction of Municipal Airport, Dover Airdrome began in March 1941 and the facility was opened on December 17, 1941. It was converted to a U.S. Army Air Corps airfield just weeks after the December 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor. It was renamed Dover Army Air Base on April 8, 1943; Dover Subbase on June 6, 1943, and Dover Army Airfield on February 2, 1944. With the establishment of the United States Air Force (USAF) on September 18, 1947, the facility was renamed Dover Air Force Base on January 13, 1948.
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Timeline
built from the dates on the items belowFinish Dover Base Housing’s story
Most archives stop around 1920. The photos from after that are in family albums, not libraries.
2 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🔁Retake an old viewCrew members of the 436th Militar…, 1980: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Famous people from Dover Base Housing
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Dover Base Housing, decade by decade
Then & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as Crew members of the 436th Military Airlift Wing, dressed in chemical warfare gear, pull chocks into position during a c… (1980) and it appears here side by side.
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nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (6). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.