Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Warner Robins Air Service Command (WRASC) Also used by Third Air Force (1941-1942) Joint use USAAF/Civil Airfield Also used by: Army Air Forces Antisubmarine Command (1942–1943) Now: Daniel Field (IATA: DNL, ICAO: KDNL, FAA LID: DNL) Macon Army Air Base, 4.3 miles (6.9 km) east of Macon; 37th Air Depot Group 469th Army Air Force Base Unit
500th Fighter-Bomber Squadron (Fighter, Replacement Training), 13 December 1943-1 May 1944; A typical complement of aircraft consisted of 32 P-40s and five BT-13s. In March 1944, a Noorduyn UC-64, was also assigned to the airfield. Both squadrons were assigned to the 85th Fighter-Bomber Group at Waycross AAF, Georgia.
The 315th Bombardment Wing based at Northwest Field, Guam, received most of the B-29Bs for night low altitude pathfinder led missions against Japan. Bell built a total of 311 B-29Bs before the plant closed in January 1946. At its height, the Bell Bomber plant employed 28,263.
Two Marietta-built B-29s survive today: 44–84076, which is located at the Strategic Air Command and Aerospace Museum in Ashland, Nebraska, and 44–84053, which is located at the Museum of Aviation in Warner Robins, Georgia.
It was the first VIII Bomber Command B-24 Liberator heavy bombardment group to begin bombing Occupied Europe and Nazi Germany from RAF Alconbury, England on 9 October 1942. Active for over 60 years, the 93d Bombardment Wing was a component organization of Strategic Air Command's deterrent force during the Cold War, as a strategic bombardment wing.
Flightline of Bainbridge Army Airfield, Georgia, 1944. Following entry of the United States into World War II, the Chief of the Army Air Corps directed the Air Corps Flying Training Command Southeast Training Center to immediately take action to select air base sites needed to increase its pilot training rate to meet anticipated wartime demands.
The number of active duty Air Force Bases within the United States rose from 115 in 1947 to peak at 162 in 1956 before declining to 69 in 2003 and 59 in 2020. This change reflects a Cold War expansion, retirement of much of the strategic bomber force, and the post–Cold War draw-down.
Deployed to IX Bomber Command in Egypt in December 1942; operating from airfields in Libya and Tunisia. Raided enemy military and industrial targets in Italy and in the southern Balkans, including the Nazi-controlled oilfields at Ploiești , Romania, receiving a Distinguished Unit Citation for its gallantry in that raid.