The Navy Fighter Weapons School that everyone calls TOPGUN was set up at Miramar in 1969 as part of VF-121, and that is how a stretch of mesa north of San Diego came to be called Fightertown USA. The...
The first Americans to arrive at Sigonella in March 1959 had no buildings to move into, so they ran the job out of a warehouse in Catania for six months. Naval Air Facility Sigonella was formally...