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Westover AFB was officially turned over to AFRES on May 19, 1974. In From October 1987, the wing converted to the C-5A model of the C-5 Galaxy and the 439 TAW was redesignated as the 439th Military Airlift Wing (439 MAW), operationally gained by the Military Airlift Command (MAC). In 1991, Westover AFB was renamed Westover Air Reserve Base.
Otis Air Force Base [1] Westover Air Force Base [114] Centers. Air Force Electronic Systems Center [115] Facilities. Air Force Special Projects Production Facility [116] Post Attack Command and Control System Facility, Hadley [117] Hospitals. 551st United States Air Force Hospital (Otis AFB) [1] Westover Air Force Base Hospital [118] Laboratories
Westover Field was created by a war-readiness appropriation signed by president Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1939. It became the largest military air facility in the Northeast during the course of World War II. The post-war Berlin Airlift was based in large part at Westover. It was renamed Westover Air Force Base after that agency's creation and ...
The 337th Airlift Squadron is a United States Air Force Reserve squadron, part of the 439th Airlift Wing at Westover Air Reserve Base, Massachusetts.It operates C-5M Super Galaxy aircraft supporting the United States Air Force global reach mission worldwide.
The facility was known by many different names: 8th Air Force Combat Operations Center (COC), "The Notch", and "Westover Communications Annex" since it was related to nearby Westover Air Force Base, and nicknamed The Bunker. [1] The facility has been described as having two underground stories amounting to 40,000 square feet (3,700 m 2). It was ...
Namesake: Major General Oscar Westover. Eighth Air Force 1955–1970 1st Air Division 1954–1955; 57th Air Division 1956–1969 99th Bomb Wing 1956–1974; 499th Air Refueling Wing 1963–1966; 4050th Air Refueling Wing 1955–1963
Detachment B is located at Westover Air Reserve Base in Chicopee, Massachusetts and serves as the squadron's primary engineer services Site. The squadron falls under the command of Marine Aircraft Group 49 and the 4th Marine Aircraft Wing.
Convair F-102A-65-CO Delta Dagger Serial 56-1206 of the 111th Fighter Interceptor Squadron of the Texas Air National Guard, Ellington AFB. The second iteration of Aerospace Defense Command (ADC) was established on 21 March 1946 as a component of the United States Army Air Forces, with the mission of planning for and executing the air defense of the United States.