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Stockton Ordnance Depot
1955-09-07: Sharpe General Depot, Stockton Storage Activity

1951-04-02: Sharpe General Depot, Stockton Annex
1950-04:[1] tbd
1948-04:[1] Stockton Sub-Depot of Benicia Arsenal
1943-01-15:[1] Stockton Ordnance Base
1941:[1] Quartermaster Motor Depot

military installation
Name origin: Stockton, California
Country United States
State California
Location Port of Stockton
 - coordinates 37°56′55″N 121°19′34″W / 37.9485664°N 121.3260727°W / 37.9485664; -121.3260727 [2]
Lease
terminations[2]
Parcel Lease Date

L-1 W-7034-QM-127 1947-01-15
L-2 W-7034-QM-131 1948-09-12
L-3A W-868-ENG-4034 1946-02-08

Code FUDS: "STOCKTON MIL AF / CA99799F523400"

The Stockton Ordance Depot was a World War II vehicle repair facility, supply depot, and camp for German and Italian prisoners of war. The installation was also used as a USAF radar station and a DLA Defense Distribution Center.

Acquisition[]

Construction of the military installation began by September 1941, and the leased areas included L-1 of 42.36 acres (0.06619 sq mi)[3] which had the "Supply Depot" and the subsequent L-2[4] was for the "Stockton Motor Repair Depot" of 7.63 acres (0.01192 sq mi). Parcels A-2-A, A-2-B, and A-2-C totaling 235.35 acres (0.36773 sq mi) were acquired "from the Estate of Frank Shackleford Boggs on May 11, 1942";[2] and

Naval Supply Annex Stockton[]

The Naval Supply Annex Stockton had four warehouses and storage yard built in 1945.[2]

Radar station[]

The Stockton Bomb Plot was the Stockton Ordnance Depot callsign of the 3903rd Radar Bomb Scoring Group's Detachment I operating the Radar Bomb Scoring station for tracking bombers and evaluating aircrews' performance during simulated Cold War bomb runs for training/proficiency. Detachment I moved to Charlotte, North Carolina in 1950 and later becoming Detachment 4 of the 10th Radar Bomb Scoring Squadron at Houston, Texas c. 1955,[5] and RBS operations for California were subsequently performed by the 11 RBS Squadron's Det 2 at Cheli Air Force Station (Los Angeles Bomb Plot) and Det 4 near McClellan AFB (Sacramento Bomb Plot).

Stockton Air Force Station[]

Stockton Air Force Station was a 138.56 acres (0.21650 sq mi) site designated on March 2, 1955,[6] after "portions of Parcels A-2-C and C-1 along with Parcels D-1, and E-1 were transferred to the Department of the Air Force on December 1, 1954."[2] The USAF began the transfer of the site on December 14, 1956;[7] and the property was conveyed after June 1967 payment by the Port of Stockton.[2]

Defense Distribution Center San Joaquin[]

The Defense Logistics Agency used[when?] more than 131 acres (0.205 sq mi) of the site, "including its four warehouses and storage yard built in 1945", "until 1998 when Defense Distribution Center San Joaquin closed its Rough and Ready Island site."[2]

In 2008, "the Port of Stockton [was] attempting to acquire Rough and Ready Island from the Government."

References[]

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "War Department General Order No. 14". December 3, 1941.  (cited by The California State Military Museum)
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 "Stockton Ordnance Depot". Historic California Posts accessdate=2013-02-07. The California State Military Museum. Updated 20 Fedruary 2008. http://www.militarymuseum.org/StocktonOrdDepot.html. 
  3. "Lease number W-7034-QM-127". August 7, 1941[verification needed].  (cited by The California State Military Museum)
  4. "Lease number W-7034-QM-131". [when?].  (cited by The California State Military Museum)
  5. http://www.koreanwar.org/html/units/usaf/3903rbs.htm
  6. "Department of the Air Force General Order 25". United States Air Force. 24 March 1955.  (cited by The California State Military Museum)
  7. "[USAF quitclaim to the Port of Stockton]". USAF. December 14, 1956.  (cited by The California State Military Museum)
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