The Stockton Ordance Depot was a

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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

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began by September 1941, and the leased areas included L-1 of which had the "Supply Depot" and the subsequent L-2 was for the "Stockton Motor Repair Depot" of . Parcels A-2-A, A-2-B, and A-2-C totaling were acquired "from the Estate of Frank Shackleford Boggs on May 11, 1942"; and

Naval Supply Annex Stockton

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

Radar station

The Stockton Bomb Plot was the Stockton Ordnance Depot callsign of the

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's Detachment I operating the

Radar Bomb Scoring Radar Bomb Scoring is a combat aviation ground support operation used to evaluate Cold War aircrews' effectiveness with simulated unguided bomb drops near radar stations of the United States Navy, the USAF Strategic Air Command, and Army Projec ...

station for tracking bombers and evaluating aircrews' performance during simulated Cold War bomb runs for training/proficiency. Detachment I moved to

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in 1950 and later becoming Detachment 4 of the 10th Radar Bomb Scoring Squadron at Houston, Texas , and RBS operations for California were subsequently performed by the 11 RBS Squadron's Det 2 at

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(Los Angeles Bomb Plot) and Det 4 near McClellan AFB (Sacramento Bomb Plot).

Stockton Air Force Station

Stockton Air Force Station was a site designated on March 2, 1955, after "portions of Parcels A-2-C and C-1 along with Parcels D-1, and E-1 were transferred to the

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on December 1, 1954." The USAF began the transfer of the site on December 14, 1956; and the property was conveyed after June 1967 payment by the Port of Stockton.

Defense Distribution Center San Joaquin

The Defense Logistics Agency used more than of the site, "including its four warehouses and storage yard built in 1945", "until 1998 when Defense Distribution Center San Joaquin Depot closed its

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site." In 2008, "the Port of Stockton asattempting to acquire Rough and Ready Island from the Government."

World War 2

1,500 German prisoners were held at the depot from May 1944 till June 1946.militarymuseum.org PW camps
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References

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