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The group was redesigned as the 915th Tactical Fighter Group. the 915th Group was the first Air Force Reserve McDonnell F-4C Phantom II unit in October 1978. Inactivated in 1981 when Tenth Air Force elevated its presence at Homestead to a wing, with personnel and equipment transferred to the new 482d Tactical Fighter Wing.
The installation was named Homestead Army Air Field on 16 September 1942 as a base for the United States Army Air Forces during World War II, and construction began the next day. Homestead opened as an Air Transport Command (ATC) ferry airfield in November; ATC pilots were trained at the base from February 1943 in the C-46 , C-54 and C-87 aircraft.
The Army Air Forces in World War II. Vol. I, Plans and Early Operations. Chicago, Illinois: University of Chicago Press. p. 658. LCCN 48003657. OCLC 704158. Knaack, Marcelle Size (1988). Encyclopedia of US Air Force Aircraft and Missile Systems. Vol. 2, Post-World War II Bombers 1945–1973. Washington, DC: Office of Air Force History. p. 248 n.41.
The group was equipped with Fairchild C-119 Flying Boxcars for Tactical Air Command airlift operations. The 916th was one of three C-119 groups assigned to the 435th Troop Carrier Wing in 1963, the others being the 915th Troop Carrier Group at Homestead Air Force Base, Florida and the 917th Troop Carrier Group at Barksdale Air Force Base ...
436th Troop Carrier Group, 1 April 1943 – 15 November 1945; 419th Troop Carrier Group, 11 April 1948; 436th Troop Carrier Group, 27 June 1949 – 16 April 1951; 436th Troop Carrier Group, 18 May 1955 – 15 May 1958; Continental Air Command, 14 March 1966; 915th Military Airlift Group, 1 April 1966; Eastern Air Force Reserve Region, 30 July 1971
The 435th Troop Carrier Group was inactivated on 14 April 1959 when the 435th Wing adopted the Dual Deputy organization and the group's squadrons were assigned directly to the wing. [ 23 ] [ 21 ] [ 20 ] [ 18 ] In 1960, the wing left busy Miami International Airport and moved south to Homestead Air Force Base , Florida.
438th Troop Carrier Group [citation needed] 439th Troop Carrier Group: 1 June 1943 – c 10 March 1944; September 1945 – c. 4 November 1945 [29] [note 5] 440th Troop Carrier Group: 1 July 1943 – July 1943 [30] 441st Troop Carrier Group [citation needed] 442d Troop Carrier Group: 17 December 1943 – 26 January 1944 [31] 443d Troop Carrier Group
Several hundred thousand women served in combat roles, especially in anti-aircraft units. The Soviet Union integrated women directly into their army units; approximately one million served in the Red Army, including about at least 50,000 on the frontlines; Bob Moore noted that "the Soviet Union was the only major power to use women in front-line roles," [2]: 358, 485 The United States, by ...