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Argentine Army, Argentine Air Force, and Argentine Navy: April 2 – June 14, 1982 Gulf War; Gulf War Organization of United States Air Force Units in the Gulf War, Organization of United States Naval Aviation Units in the Gulf War, Naval organization of the U.S.-led coalition during the Gulf War: November 1990 – March 1991 Operation Granby
The 1990–1991 Gulf War was the last major United States Air Force combat operation of the 20th Century. The command and control of allied forces deployed to the Middle East initially as part of Operation Desert Shield, later engaging in combat operations during Operation Desert Storm, were assigned to United States Central Command Air Forces (USCENTAF), the USAF component of the Joint United ...
An order of battle is distinct from a table of organisation, which is the intended composition of a given unit or formation according to the military doctrine of its armed force. Historically, an order of battle was the order in which troops were positioned relative to the position of the army commander or the chronological order in which ships ...
The result: a greater reliance on nuclear weapons and air power to deter war. His administration invested in the Air Force, especially Strategic Air Command. The nuclear arms race became of signal importance. The Air Force retired nearly all of its propeller-driven B-29/B-50s and they were replaced by new Boeing B-47 Stratojet aircraft.
Commander, Navy Pacific Fleet Air Wing: Rear Admiral Patrick N. L. Bellinger Operations Officer: Captain Logan C. Ramsey. Battle Force (Task Force 1) Vice Admiral William Satterlee Pye Captain Harold C. Train, Chief of Staff
Eighth Air Force - Lieutenant General James H. Doolittle. Ninth Air Force - Lieutenant General Hoyt Vandenberg. United States Strategic Air Forces in Europe. IX Troop Carrier Command - Douglas C-47 Skytrain. 50th Troop Carrier Wing [5] 439th Troop Carrier Group - dropped the 82nd Division near Nijmegen initially [6]
The U.S. Army, Air Force, Navy, Marines, and Coast Guard participated in the US invasion of Panama (1989–1990, Operation Just Cause). [1] Forces that participated include: U.S. soldiers holding a U.S. flag at La Comandancia. United States Southern Command [2] [3] United States Army South (USARSO) XVIII Airborne Corps – Joint Task Force South
Order of battle and commanders, 'Maurer Maurer (ed.) (1978). The U.S. Air Service in World War I, Volume I: The Final Report and A Tactical History, pp.391–392; Locations and aircraft, Maurer Maurer Combat squadrons of the Air Force, World War II, USAF Historical Study 82, under individual unit entries