Training Command when the WTTC's Fort Logan in Colorado transferred to the Air Service Command. On 1 July 1944 Camp Kearns transferred to AAF Personnel Distribution Command. A theater for "colored personnel" became part of Kearns Junior High School. A base chapel is now part of Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Church. The base train station is a day-care center. A cannon that had stood next to the headquarters' flagpole stood for many years at the corner of 40th West and 54th South. The World War I-era cannon and flagpole from the old Camp Kearns military base have been relocated to the Kearns township recreation center. They are now part of the new Kearns Veterans Memorial Plaza, dedicated 10 November 2012. Army Air Base, Kearns Redesignated Army Air Base, Kearns on 1 October 1944 when transferred to the Second Air Force, command of the base transferred from Converse R. Lewis to Colonel Walter F. Siegmund. Both the "Overseas Replacement Depot, Kearns, Utah" and "Salt Lake City Army Air Field under command jurisdiction of Kearns ORD" transferred to Strategic Air Command on 21 March 1946. Kearns ORD and SLC AAFld (along with North Carolina's Greensboro ORD and the Greensboro-High Point Army Airfield)transferred to AAFTC on 30 April and Kearns finally transferred to Air Defense Command (31 July). The base (including Kearns AAF) was inactivated on 15 August 1946 and transferred to the War Assets Administration for disposal. The War Assets Administration declared Kearns surplus on 24 January 1947, and the high bid by Standard Surplus was opened in July 1948 for the installation with only 100 remaining buildings. A "Camp Kearns Memorial" was emplaced at the Arlo D. James Kearns Veterans Memorial Park (later moved to ). Since World War II After World War II, control of the airport was turned over to Salt Lake City and it was renamed Salt Lake City Municipal Airport II. On 10 February 2009, the Salt Lake City Council voted to change the airport's name to South Valley Regional Airport. The council made the change in order to more clearly describe the location and function of the airport and because the traditional name of "Airport II" had "no historical significance." See also Skywest Airlines Flight 1834 Utah World War II Army Airfields Western Technical Training Command References External links South Valley Regional Airport (on Salt Lake City International Airport's website) 1943 establishments in Utah