England Air Force Base

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The England Air Force Base is a former stronghold of the U.S. Air Force in Louisiana. The base is located 7 kilometers north- west of Alexandria in New Orleans. First it was called Alexandria Army Base, but it was named after Lt. Col. John Brook England (1923-1954) on 23 June 1955.

The base was established on 21 October 1942 and during the Second World War it was used for training of pilots on the Boeing B-17. She was decommissioned on 23 September 1946 although a small cadre of the Army and Air Force in Alexandria Municipal Airport until the late 1940s worked

On October 10, 1950, she was made ​​active again in the Korean War by USAF.

The base was decommissioned in 1992 and is called the time Alexandria International Airport.