Editing Indian Springs, Nevada (section)

===Army Air Forces to Air Force Base===
Indian Springs Auxiliary Airfield also known as Indian Springs Field, was rapidly constructed in Nevada by the [[United States Army Air Forces]] the month after the [[Attack on Pearl Harbor|Pearl Harbor attack]]. Indian Springs was immediately entered into service as a training camp for Army Air Force B-25 air-to-air gunnery training, and as a divert field for Las Vegas Army Airfield.

In 1947, Las Vegas AAF was inactivated, and so was Indian Springs.

One year later, Indian Springs was reactivated as Indian Springs Air Force Base by the new [[United States Air Force]], with a new role as a new weapons systems and aircraft research and testing. Among these missions were support for nuclear arms testing at the [[Nevada Test Site|Nevada Proving Grounds]], high-altitude balloon search and retrieval, new gunnery and rocketry systems, and testing of experimental aircraft. For a period of the 1950s and 1960s Indian Springs AFB housed some of the most advanced aircraft and air weapons systems in the world.

In the 1960s, Indian Springs AFB was transferred to the Tactical Air Wing and re-designated as Indian Springs Air Force Auxiliary Field. The Indian Springs mission was focused on monitoring of Nellis range, and became the remote training site of the USAF Thunderbirds elite air demonstration squadron. The 1982 "[[1982 Thunderbirds Indian Springs Diamond Crash|Diamond Crash]]" caused the deaths of four Thunderbird pilots and hastened their transition from the [[Northrop T-38 Talon|T-38A Talon]] to the [[General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon|F-16C Fighting Falcon]].

====Creech Air Force Base====
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Indian Springs Air Force Auxiliary Field was renamed [[Creech Air Force Base]] in 2005, in honor of General Wilbur L. "Bill" Creech, a former commander of the [[Tactical Air Command]].  Also in the 2000s, Creech AFB began to host the [[432d Wing]] and [[432d Wing|432d Air Expeditionary Wing]], operating/flying [[unmanned aerial vehicle]]s, and returning the base to its history as a base of advanced special aircraft development.

The base also hosts the operations of the [[556th Test and Evaluation Squadron]] and 99th Ground Combat Training Squadron, The National Desert Warfare Center, and those of the Air Force Reserve's 78th Reconnaissance Squadron, 91st RS, and Nevada Air National Guard's 232nd Operations Squadron.