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The Air National Guard's 103rd Fighter-Interceptor Wing (103 FIW), along with the 118th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron and its F-47N Thunderbolts, [4] was federalized on March 2, 1951, and moved from Brainard Field, Connecticut, to Suffolk County AFB on June 1.
Francis Stanley "Gabby" Gabreski (born Franciszek Stanisław Gabryszewski; January 28, 1919 – January 31, 2002) was a Polish-American career pilot in the United States Air Force who retired as a colonel after 26 years of military service.
The 101st Rescue Squadron (101 RQS) is a unit of the New York Air National Guard 106th Rescue Wing stationed at Francis S. Gabreski Air National Guard Base, Westhampton Beach, New York. The squadron is equipped with the Sikorsky HH-60G Pave Hawk and HH-60W Jolly Green II helicopters, configured for combat search and rescue operations.
Francis S. Gabreski ANGB, Westhampton Beach, New York: ACC: HH-60G Pave Hawk. HC-130J Combat King II. 107th Attack Wing: Niagara Falls ARS, Niagara Falls, New York: ACC: MQ-9 Reaper: 108th Wing: JB McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, New Jersey: AMC: KC-46 Pegasus. C-32B Gatekeeper. 109th Airlift Wing: Stratton ANGB, Scotia, New York: AMC: LC-130 Hercules ...
The 102nd Rescue Squadron (102 RQS) is a unit of the New York Air National Guard 106th Rescue Wing stationed at Francis S. Gabreski Air National Guard Base, Westhampton Beach, New York. The 102nd is equipped with the HC-130J Combat King II transport aircraft.
The 106th Rescue Wing (106th RQW) is a unit of the New York Air National Guard, stationed at Francis S. Gabreski Air National Guard Base, Westhampton Beach, New York.If activated to federal service, the Wing is gained by the United States Air Force Air Combat Command.
Known as Suffolk County Air Force Base until 1969, then Suffolk County Airport until 1991, when it was renamed in honor of Colonel Francis S. Gabreski, USAF (Retired), a U.S. Army Air Forces flying ace in World War II who, as a U.S. Air Force officer, was later the commander of the 52nd Fighter-Interceptor Wing at Suffolk County Air Force Base ...
English: USAAF fighter ace Francis S. Gabreski in cockpit of his P-47 Thunderbolt. Photograph from July 1944 as shown by the 28 victory markings - Gabreski scored his 28th kill on 5 July and was captured on 20 July.