Time Capsule: A History of the Warner Robins ALC and Robins AFB, Georgia, 1935-1995 USAF, 1997.
Office of History
Warner Robins Air Logistics Center
Robins Air Force Base, Georgia
Fall, 1996
On September 18, 1997, all those men and women--military and civilian--who serve, or have served, in the U.S. Air Force celebrated the 50th anniversary of the U.S. Air Force as a separate service within the Department of Defense. To that end, we in the WR-ALC Office of History determined to honor this important historic milestone with a chronological history of the WR-ALC and Robins AFB.
The focus of this work is the Center and Team Robins Plus. For this reason, the vast majority of photographs and the time frame for this work center around the history of the WR-ALC and Robins AFB. Thus, the Chronology begins in 1935, the year Congress passed legislation providing for the construction of new logistics depots--in this case one in the southeastern United States. It ends 60 years later, in 1995, the year the BRAC Commission determined to keep Robins open.
We attempted to include as many key events as possible, especially events and milestones dealing with air power and aerospace history. We also sought to include as many well known events involving sports events and stars, movie stars, celebrities, great world records, terrible disasters, important firsts, etc. These were events by which many of us have marked the passage of our lives.
Naturally, we could not include every event that everyone believes to be highly significant, however we have made every effort to include as many key events as was humanly possible.
As we stand at the threshold of a new century and a new era at Robins AFB, we believe that remembering the past 60 years of world history and how it has affected those who have lived and worked at Robins and in Middle Georgia is indeed a very useful exercise. With budget cuts gobbling up one important federal program after another, it is important that we recall from whence we came and why Robins was built and why it has lasted this long. In order not to make the mistakes of the past, in order to insure our national security, in order to "Keep 'Em Flying," we must know our past and learn from it.