order to augment the forward deployed P-3C squadron. The previous NAS Bermuda was renamed the NAS Annex and served primarily as a dock area for visiting U.S. naval vessels and as a support facility for the nearby Naval Facility (NAVFAC) Bermuda that supported the Sound Surveillance System (SOSUS) activity. Both bases closed in 1995 and the former Kindley Field became the present Bermuda International Airport. Since 1962, several sounding rockets were launched from Kindley and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration has operated a tracking and telemetry station on Cooper's Island, at the eastern edge of the former Naval Air Station since the 1960s in support of crewed space flight operations. See also United States Army Bermuda Garrison Fort Bell Army Airfield (1941–1948) Naval Air Station Bermuda, Kindley Field (1970–1995) USCG Air Station Bermuda (1963–1965) Royal Air Force, Bermuda, 1939-1945 References External links Bermuda Online: American military bases in Bermuda 1941 to 1995. ARKIES AT WAR: FIELD KINDLEY OF GRAVETTE. Kindley AFB High School Webpage. Encyclopedia Astronautica: Kindley Field USAAF, Fort Bell 1941-1948 Royal Air Force stations of World War II in Bermuda Defunct military airports in Bermuda Destroyers for Bases Agreement airfields Installations of the United States Air Force World War II sites in Bermuda Airports established in 1943 Airfields of the United States Army Air Forces