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amount of $1.6 million for the development of the base. This bill was called the Military Deficiency Appropriation Bill. When the United States entered World War I, the Navy needed a large operations center on the East Coast, which caused the base to expand very quickly. The base established a seaplane airfield in October 1917, and in the following year it was separated and became Naval Air Station Hampton Roads. The Naval Operating Base (NOB) and other facilities were established. By 1918, there were 34,000 enlisted men at the base. However,

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