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Clark Air Base is a Philippine Air Force base on Luzon Island in the Philippines, located 3 miles (4.8 km) west of Angeles City, and about 40 miles (64 km) northwest of Metro Manila.
Jul 20, 1998 · Clark Air Base, former U.S. military air base, central Luzon, Philippines. It covered an area of about 12 square miles (30 square km) and was located 48 miles (77 km) north of Manila near the foothills of the Cabusilan Mountains. It was first established as a U.S. military camp for the 5th Cavalry.
The DeHavilland DH-4 became the first U.S. Army airplane to be deployed at Clark Field, arriving in 1919. This DH-4 was flown by Major Roy Brown, Commander of the 3d Aero Squadron, and, as was the custom of the day, bore his personal insignia.
Clark Field (Clark Air Base) is located in Pampanga Province on Luzon in the Philippines. Built by the U.S. Army and occupied by the Japanese 1942–1945 then liberated and postwar used by the U.S. Air Force.
The webpage provides information on the Clark Air Base, operated by the Philippine Air Force.
Clark gets its name from Maj. Harold M. Clark, of the U.S. Army Signal Corps. Born in Minnesota and raised in Manila, he was the first American to fly in Hawaii. Clark died on May 2, 1919 in a seaplane crash in Panama and is now buried in the Arlington National Cemetery.
The only American air base west of Hawaii, it became the largest American overseas airbase in the world, and largest American base in the Philippines. Naming of the New Air Base. The new aerodrome was named Clark Field, in honor of Major Harold M. Clark, who was born in Minnesota and reared in Manila.
