1941 Building the Runways at Camp LeRoy Johnson
1941 U.S. Naval Reserve Air Training Base (Camp Leroy Johnson) Status: GONE Land now part of The University of New Orleans. Smokestack in left/center has been incorporated into the design of the UNO alumni center. Spreading asphalt for one of the two runways at the base. The runways are built to grade and drainage structures built by WPA labor. Actual laying of asphalt is being performed by contract. Unfinished hangar for the base is s hown in the background. Source: New Orleans Public Library--WPA Photograph Collection http://www.nutrias.org/~nopl/photos/wpa/images/02082.jpg