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The Maaten al-Sarra Air Base is an airbase in southernmost Libya located near the Ma'tan as-Sarra oasis in the Kufra district.It is one of the 13 military airbases in Libya. [5]
Ma'tan as-Sarra is an oasis in the Kufra District municipality in the southeast corner of Libya. It is located in the Libyan Desert , 322 kilometres (200 mi) southwest of Kufra . A marginal oasis, with few palms and substandard water, it allowed the creation in 1811 of the last trans-Saharan caravan route .
The Battle of Maaten al-Sarra was fought between Chad and Libya on September 5, 1987, during the Toyota War.The battle took the form of a surprise Chadian raid against the Libyan Maaten al-Sarra Air Base, meant to remove the threat of Libyan airpower, that had already thwarted the Chadian attack on the Aouzou Strip in August.
Ma'tan as-Sarra was turned over to Italy in 1934 as part of the Sarra Triangle by the Anglo-Egyptian Condominium, who considered the area worthless and so an act of cheap appeasement to Benito Mussolini's attempts at empire. [2] The Italians built a First World War–style fort in El Tag in the mid-1930s.
Mactan–Benito Ebuen Air Base is located on Mactan island, [1] in Lapu-Lapu City, in the province of Cebu in the Central Visayas region of the Philippines. Mactan island is best known as being the location where the Spanish explorer, Ferdinand Magellan was killed by the forces of Lapulapu during his circumnavigation of the earth.
Replaced 6603d Air Base Group. Replaced by 4082d Air Base Group when base transferred to SAC. [332] 6607th Air Base Wing: Thule AB, Greenland: NEAC: 1 Jun 1954: 1 Apr 1957: Replaced by 4083d ABG when base transferred to SAC. [215] 6900th Security Wing: Landsberg AB, Germany Frankfurt, Germany: USAFSS: 1 Aug 1954: Unknown: Moved before July 1956 ...
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Matan ibn Uthman Bin Khalid (Somali: Mataan Ibnu Cismaan ibnu Khaalid, Arabic: متن بن عثمان بن خالد) born c. early 1490 – 28 October 1531, also known as Garad Matan, was a Somali military commander and Adalite general that served the Adal Sultanate.