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Naval Air Station (NAS) Sigonella (IATA: NSY, ICAO: LICZ) is an Italian Air Force base (Italian: Aeroporto "Cosimo Di Palma" di Sigonella), and a U.S. Navy installation at Italian Air Force Base Sigonella in Lentini, Sicily, Italy. The whole NAS is a tenant of the Italian Air Force, which has the military and the administrative control. [1]
HC-4 was previously home-based at Naval Air Station Sigonella, located in Sicily, Italy. The squadron completed a homeport change to Naval Station Norfolk in 2005–06. [4] The squadron was disestablished on 28 September 2007. [citation needed]
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Naval Medical Research Unit Three (NAMRU-3) is a biomedical research laboratory of the US Navy located in Sigonella, Italy. Previously it was located in Cairo, Egypt. [1] NAMRU-3 is the oldest U.S. overseas military medical research facility that has remained in the same location, and one of the largest medical research laboratories in the ...
The Sigonella crisis (named after the air base at which it originated, in Sicily) was a diplomatic case between Italy and the United States that occurred in October 1985.
Re-designated as the 49th Bombardment Squadron on 25 January 1923; Consolidated on 16 October 1936, with the 49th Aero Squadron; Unit B-17s located the Italian luxury liner S.S. Rex about 725 miles out to sea on the famous long range interception mission conducted on 12 May 1938; During World War II, deployed to the Mediterranean Theater of ...
After the World War I, new territories were annexed to Italy. The province of Trento was created in 1923. Provinces of La Spezia and Trieste in 1923, while Ionio in 1924. In 1924 the new provinces of Fiume, Pola, and Zara were created, increasing the total number of provinces in Italy to 76.
The geography of Italy includes the description of all the physical geographical elements of Italy. Italy, whose territory largely coincides with the homonymous geographical region , [ 1 ] is located in southern Europe and comprises the long, boot-shaped Italian Peninsula crossed by the Apennines , the southern side of Alps , the large plain of ...