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NAS Fort Worth JRB (Carswell Field), TX, c. 2006. Army Air Forces Combat Crew School, Tarrant Field (aka Tarrant Field and Tarrant Field Airdrome), c. 1 July 1942; Fort Worth Army Air Field, 29 July 1942 – 13 January 1948; Griffiss Air Force Base, 13 January 1948 – 29 January 1948; Carswell Air Force Base, 29 January 1948 – 30 September ...
Naval Air Station Kingsville: Kingsville: Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Fort Worth: Fort Worth: Carswell AFB Grand Prairie Armed Forces Reserve Complex: Grand Prairie: Hensley Field: Grand Prairie Camp Mabry: Austin: Camp Swift: Bastrop: Camp Bowie: Brownwood: Coast Guard Air Station Corpus Christi: Corpus Christi Coast Guard Air Station ...
Carswell Air Force Base is a former United States Air Force (USAF) base, located northwest of Fort Worth, Texas. For most of its operational lifetime, the base's mission was to train and support heavy strategic bombing groups and wings.
The enormous losses suffered in seizing island bases in the Pacific convinced the USAAF that there was still a definite need for a very long-range bomber. [7] The first XB-36 (42-13570) was rolled out of the Fort Worth factory on 8 September 1945, and took off from Fort Worth on its maiden flight on 8 August 1946.
The US Navy retains two naval air stations as major flying training centers at Corpus Christi and Kingsville and a third naval air station (formerly a major air force base (Carswell AFB)) as a joint reserve base in Fort Worth, and the US Air Force has retained several bases as either active duty installations or via transfer to the Air Force ...
1.13 (Fort Worth AFB) Carswell AFB, 27 Feb 1948, Fort Worth, TX (H) 1.14 Camp Carson, Colorado Springs, CO (T). ... 1.76 Naval Air Station Dallas, Dallas, TX.
In July 1944, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported that the USMC was considering expanding the base to accommodate more dive bomber trainees. [1] MAG-33 stayed until 17 August 1944, when they left for San Diego, California. [5] In August, Marine Aircraft Group 93 (MAG-93) arrived from Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point and remained until ...
Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Fort Worth, Texas: Engagements: Asiatic-Pacific Theater: Decorations: Air Force Outstanding Unit Award: Commanders; Current commander: Col. Benjamin R. Harrison [1] Insignia; 301st Fighter Wing emblem (approved 17 December 1978) [2] Tail stripe: Texas flag tail stripe "TX" "Texas Longhorns" Tail code: TX ...