The Snapshots in Time Collection

NATS/ATC Joint Operations Terminal, Johnston Island Naval Air Station

NATS/ATC Joint Operations Terminal, Johnston Island Naval Air Station

The joint NATS/ATC terminal on Johnston Island illustrates the cooperative nature of Pacific air logistics during and after World War II, when the Navy's Naval Air Transport Service and the Army's Air Transport Command shared facilities at remote island stops. Quonset-hut hangars, prefabricated for rapid overseas construction, housed operations offices, cargo handling, and passenger services for aircraft ferrying personnel and supplies across the central Pacific. Project: 218699