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Thomas Richard Bunday (September 28, 1948 – March 15, 1983) was an American serial killer who, from 1979 to 1981, committed a series of murders of young women and girls in the city of Fairbanks, Alaska. At the time of the killings, Bunday was serving at the Eielson Air Force Base near Fairbanks
On 1 April 1948, the Eielson Air Force Base Wing (Base Complement) was formed. The host-unit subsequently would be dubbed the Eielson Air force Base Bomb Wing, and finally, in January 1949, the 5010th Wing. Colonel John L. Nedwed, the third commander of the base since it fell under Alaskan Air Command fifteen months before, became the first to ...
A Boeing RC-135S Cobra Ball assigned to the 24th Expeditionary Reconnaissance Squadron operating out of Eielson Air Force Base in Fairbanks, Alaska crashed while attempting to land in poor weather at Eareckson Air Station (then known as Shemya Air Force Base) in the Alaskan Aleutian Islands. The cause of the crash was the pilots misidentifying ...
The 355th Fighter Squadron, nicknamed the Fightin' Falcons, is a United States Air Force unit stationed at Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska.It is an active-duty unit assigned to the 354th Fighter Wing and operates the Lockheed Martin F-35A Lightning II.
11th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron F-102 [note 5]. The group was redesignated the 343d Fighter Group (Air Defense) and activated at Duluth International Airport [1] in August 1955, replacing the 515th Air Defense Group [12] and assuming the 515th's personnel and equipment as part of Air Defense Command (ADC)'s Project Arrow, which was designed to bring back on the active list the fighter units ...
Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska, 1 July 1962 – 30 June 1992 Sembach Air Base , Germany, 2 May 1954 – 8 May 1955 Kelly Air Force Base , Texas, 8 December 1953 – 17 April 1954 [ 1 ]
Reactivated by Tactical Air Command, United States Air Force on 19 November 1956, being assigned to the reactivated 354th Fighter-Day Group at the new Myrtle Beach Air Force Base, South Carolina. Equipped with North American F-100 Super Sabre fighters, the squadron participated in exercises, operations, tests, and firepower demonstrations ...
In 2013, the Air Force, responding to the Department of Defense strategy guidance of December 2012, proposed consolidating all fighter units in Alaska at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson. This would involve the move of the 18th from Eielson Air Force Base to Elmendorf. [5]