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Grissom Air Reserve Base is a United States Air Force base, located about 12 miles (19 km) north of Kokomo in Cass and Miami counties in Indiana. The facility was established as a U.S. Navy installation, Naval Air Station Bunker Hill, in 1942 and was an active Air Force installation, Bunker Hill Air Force Base from 1954 to 1968, and Grissom Air Force Base from 1968 to 1994.
Alexandria Air Force Base: Alexandria: Louisiana: 1955 Redesignated as England Air Force Base: Amarillo Air Force Base: Amarillo: Texas: 1969 Closed Amchitka Air Force Base: Rat Islands: Alaska: 1948 Closed Andrews Air Force Base: Camp Springs: Maryland: 2009 Realigned as part of Joint Base Andrews [2] Anniston Air Force Base: Talladega ...
On 15 January 1971, the Air Force activated the 434th Special Operations Wing at Grissom, [5] and the 930th was returned to its original wing, albeit with a new mission. It received Cessna A-37B Dragonfly counter-insurgency aircraft being returned from South Vietnam.
Sep. 26—KC-135R Stratotankers and the airmen who fly, maintain and support them began returning home Monday as Grissom Air Reserve Base's runway reopened following a nearly $60 million ...
It is the flying component of the Fourth Air Force 434th Air Refueling Wing, stationed at Grissom Air Reserve Base, Indiana. The unit's World War II predecessor unit, the 434th Troop Carrier Group was a C-47 Skytrain transport unit assigned to Ninth Air Force in Western Europe.
The Miami Correctional Facility is a state prison located near Bunker Hill, Indiana, on the site of the Grissom Joint Air Reserve Base at West 850 South and US-31, about 11 miles north of Kokomo, Indiana. It was established in 1998 and houses high-, medium-, and minimum-security inmates, all of whom are adult males.
Due to funding reductions in 1969, Bakalar Air Force Base was selected for closure. The 434th Tactical Airlift Wing was inactivated on 31 December 1969 [1] with the closure of Bakalar AFB. On 15 January 1971, the 434th was reactivated at Grissom Air Force Base, Indiana, as the 434th Special Operations Wing.
Established in early 1943 as a Douglas C-47 Skytrain transport squadron under First Air Force, later trained under I Troop Carrier Command in the eastern United States. . Deployed to England in late 1943, being assigned to IX Troop Carrier Command to participate in the buildup of forces prior to the Allied landings in France during D-Day in June