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Vandalia, Ohio (Northwest Air Lines) [note 4] Depots, e.g., Fairfield, Ohio (FAD), did modifications but were not modification centers. The commercial modification centers were distinct from the USAAF Air Service Command domestic depot system, which also performed modification as an addition mission function.
A USAAF Douglas C-54 (s/n 41-37271), circa 1943. With the looming entry of the United States into World War II, in June 1941 [citation needed] the War Department took over the provision orders for the airlines for the Douglas DC-4 and allocated them to the United States Army Air Forces with the designation C-54 Skymaster.
The 4th Ferrying Group was a World War II unit of the United States Army Air Forces (AAF). It was activated in February 1942 as the Nashville Sector, Ferrying Command, but soon changed its name. It ferried aircraft manufactured in the midwest and south until March 1944, when it was disbanded in a general reorganization of AAF units in the ...
Fourth Air Force region of the United States, early World War II. During World War II Fourth Air Force was the primary air defense command for the West Coast. The command also flew antisubmarine patrols along coastal areas of the Gulf of Mexico from after Pearl Harbor until October 1942.
As the 4th Bombardment Wing, the unit was one of the primary B-17 Flying Fortress heavy strategic bombardment wings of VIII Bomber Command (later Eighth Air Force in World War II. During the Cold War , the 4th Air Division' was an intermediate command echelon of Strategic Air Command , controlling strategic bombardment and intercontinental ...
The squadron was formed on 16 June 1941 at RAF Digby in Lincolnshire, England as an Article XV squadron under the control of the British Royal Air Force. [2] The squadron was equipped with the Supermarine Spitfire and after a period of training the squadron began operations in August 1941 with the Spitfire VB variant. [2]
The Cantilevered pillbox was designed and constructed by F C Construction for airfield defence. The cantilevered design allowed a 360° embrasure for all-round defence against air-landed troops at the expense of some protection. The central cross-shaped pillar acts as an anti-ricochet wall. Weapons were mounted on a tubular rail for 360° traverse.
The attack on Pearl Harbor put all units in the Western Theater of Operations on heightened alert. The first Lockheed P-38 Lightnings of the 1st Pursuit Group arrived in San Diego, California on 8 December 1941, and the entire group had arrived in California from Michigan to reinforce the command's air defenses by 22 December.