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8 Air Maintenance Squadron is a Royal Canadian Air Force unit. Based at 8 Wing Trenton, it is responsible for supporting 424 Transport and Rescue Squadron, 436 Transport Squadron, 437 Transport Squadron, and 429 Transport Squadron, in their operational roles by performing second line maintenance on systems and components for the CC-130H, CC-130J, CC-150 and CC-177 aircraft respectively, as ...
Barksdale Air Force Base [2] 4th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron: 4th Maintenance Group, 4th Fighter Wing: Seymour Johnson Air Force Base [3] 5th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron: 5th Maintenance Group, 5th Bomb Wing: Minot Air Force Base [4] 6th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron: 6th Maintenance Group, 6th Air Mobility Wing: MacDill Air Force Base [5]
Air Warning Squadron 2: 1 September 1943 [10] 15 February 1946 Air Warning Squadron 3: 12 October 1943 [11] 15 October 1945 Air Warning Squadron 4: 12 October 1943 [12] 31 October 1945 Air Warning Squadron 6: 1 January 1944 [13] 28 February 1946 Air Warning Squadron 8: 1 March 1944 [14] 12 March 1946 Air Warning Squadron 9: 1 April 1944 [15] 8 ...
the Eighth Army Air Force (8 AAF) was a United States Army Air Forces combat air force in the European theater of World War II (1939/41–1945), engaging in operations primarily in the Northern Europe area of responsibility; carrying out strategic bombing of enemy targets in France, the Low Countries, and Germany; [3] and engaging in air-to-air ...
The Mighty Eighth: The Air War in Europe as told by the Men who Fought it. New York: D.I. Fine Books, 1997. Bowman, Martin (1994). 8th Air Force at War: Memories and Missions, England, 1942–1945. Cambridge, England: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-852604-44-8. Bowman, Martin (2000). Castles in the Air: The Story of the Men from the US 8th ...
The wing had as many as four fighter squadrons, an airlift squadron, a helicopter combat search and rescue squadron, two aerial reconnaissance squadrons and an air control squadron. During the drawdown of forces from Iraq, the 332d Wing provided intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, combat search and rescue, armed overwatch and close ...
The 2d Low Altitude Air Defense Battalion (2d LAAD) is an air defense unit of the United States Marine Corps. The battalion is subordinate to Marine Air Control Group 28 (MACG-28) and the 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing (2nd MAW) and is currently based at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point. The battalion is composed of one Headquarters and Support ...
On 10 April 1965 Task Force Alpha of 2nd Battalion, 3rd Marines was landed by helicopter from Da Nang Air Base to secure the area. On 13 April a detachment of ten UH-34D helicopters from HMM-162 was established at Phu Bai. On 14 April Battalion Landing Team 3rd Battalion, 4th Marines replaced Task Force Alpha at Phu Bai. [2]: 235