In December 1944, Marine Corps Air Station Santa Barbara had 13 such revetments. (Pierre Claeyssens Veterans Foundation photo) On the firm ground along the northeast end of runway 21, the Marines ...

Marine Corps Air Station Santa Barbara was established at the Santa Barbara Airport not long after the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor pulled the United States into World War II.

His family moved from Canada to Santa Barbara, Calif., during his childhood, and he grew up watching the aircraft fly in and out of what was then known as Marine Corps Air Station Santa Barbara ...