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Ellsworth AFB was established in 1941 as Rapid City Army Air Base (AAB).It was later renamed for Brigadier General Richard E. Ellsworth (1911–1953), a 28th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing commander killed when his RB-36 Peacemaker aircraft crashed near Burgoyens Cove, Newfoundland, during a training flight.
Family housing for the detachment was on the western edge of Wall, South Dakota, and barracks initially used for the station were shared by Boeing facility contractors for the Ellsworth Air Force Base 850th Strategic Missile Squadron's HGM-25A Titan I ICBMs.
The Air Force selected Ellsworth Air Force Base as the site for its finance center from more than 80 candidate locations. [2] It was chosen because the base had existing facilities with 110,000 square feet (10,000 m 2) of available floor space as well as good force protection and communications infrastructure. In addition, the area's cost of ...
A B-1B Lancer attached to the 34th Bomb Squadron at Ellsworth Air Force Base, South Dakota, departs for a Red Flag combat training exercise at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, on July 13, 2023.
The last B-36 left Ellsworth on 29 May 1957 and the first B-52 arrived sixteen days later. In 1958, all base units came under the command of the 821st Strategic Aerospace Division, headquartered at Ellsworth. On 26 September 1958, two B-52Ds from the wing set world speed records for heavy aircraft.
Ellsworth Air Force Base lies on the northeast side of the city, ... There were 2,828 housing units at an average density of 203.5 per square mile (78.6/km 2).
Housing issues on base: Soldier, others testify of "alarming" conditions of Fort Gordon housing in Ossoff-led hearing "We were planning to go ahead and leave at the end of our lease anyway, but ...
Ellsworth Scientific Station (Spanish: Estación Científica Ellsworth, or simply Estación Ellsworth or Base Ellsworth) was a permanent, all year-round originally American, then Argentine Antarctic scientific research station named after American polar explorer Lincoln Ellsworth. It was located on Gould Bay, on the Filchner Ice Shelf.