Marked Housing Units, George Air Force Base, Victorville

George Air Force Base traces back to 1941, when the Army Air Corps opened Victorville Army Air Field as a bombardier and gunnery training site. It was renamed in 1950 for Brig. Gen. Harold Lee George, a pioneer of American strategic bombing doctrine, and later served as a Strategic Air Command installation during the Cold War. The base closed in 1992 under a federal Base Realignment and Closure order, and its residential blocks were left to the desert. Much of the property has since been folded into the Southern California Logistics Airport, though rows of former family housing still stand empty, their doors and windows marked with spray-painted X's from post-closure inspections.

Photo taken in December 2011.