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The Torpedo Alley, or Torpedo Junction, off North Carolina, is one of the graveyards of the Atlantic Ocean, named for the high number of attacks on Allied shipping by German U-boats in World War II. Almost 400 ships were sunk, mostly during the Second Happy Time in 1942, and over 5,000 people were killed, many of whom were civilians and ...
The United States Armed Forces were initially organized as USEFT (United States Force European Theater, from August 1, 1945 to February 28, 1946, in Berlin and Frankfurt am Main, in the IG Farben building. On March 15, 1947 they were reassigned to EUCOM (European Command) in Frankfurt, 1948 moved from Frankfurt to Heidelberg, Campbell Barracks.
Naval Air Station Bermuda (Kindley Field) (usually described in Bermuda as United States Naval Air Station Bermuda, and not to be confused with the former Royal Naval Air Station Bermuda or the United States Naval Air Station Bermuda Annex, which had previously been designated US Naval Operating Base Bermuda, then US Naval Air Station Bermuda), was located on St. David's Island in the British ...
On 19 June, the submarine entered the Great Sound, site of the United States Navy's Naval Operating Base in Bermuda, after a tow of 1,700 nautical miles (3,150 km; 1,960 mi). [29] The US Navy took 58 prisoners from U-505 , three of them wounded.
A United States Air Force (USAF) Convair C-131D Samaritan, 55-291, of the 7500th Air Base Group, on take-off from Munich-Riem Airport for a flight to RAF Northolt, United Kingdom, crashed at 14:10 local time in Munich, Germany, due to loss of power in one engine caused by fuel starvation; aircraft struck a church steeple and then a tramcar at ...
K-1 Air Base; US Military Designations: COB K-1 United States Army Contingency Operating Base, turned over to Iraqi Army 2011. K-2 Air Base (Bayji AB) Former Iraqi Air Force hardened "Super Base" US Military Designation: Camp Lancer United States Marine Corps Camp, Current status undetermined. Karbale Northeast Air Base (Closed 1991)
US Naval Operating Base, Naval Station Bermuda, Naval Air Station Bermuda, and NAS Bermuda Annex. 1941-1995. United States Navy Submarine Base, Ordnance Island. Second World War. United States Navy, Naval Facility Bermuda. (Tudor Hill) 1954-1995. United States Army, Fort Bell 1941-1948; United States Army Air Forces, Kindley Field. 1943-1948.
The U.S. military maintains hundreds of installations, both inside the United States and overseas (with at least 128 military bases located outside of its national territory as of July 2024). [2] According to the U.S. Army, Camp Humphreys in South Korea is the largest overseas base in terms of area. [3]