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Rhein-Main Air Base was a ... On 24 June 1948, ... U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster IIIs and C-141 Starlifters are parked on the ramp at Rhein-Main Air Base, Germany ...
The wing was first activated as the 61st Troop Carrier Wing by the United States Air Forces in Europe in 1948 to control C-47 Skytrain and C-54 Skymaster units. The wing was the host organization at Rhein-Main Air Base, West Germany.
North American RF-100A-10-NA Super Sabre 53-1551 Bitburg AB, West Germany 28 February 1955. used by Detachment 1 of 7407th Support Sqn of 7499th Support Group. Aircraft Crashed near Neidenbach, West Germany on 1 October 1956. Pilot ejected safely. Martin RB-57F-CF 63-13291, 7407th Combat Support Squadron, Rhein-Main AB, West Germany.
1948–1966: Country United ... The airlift required the movement of 980 tons of small arms more than 6,000 miles from Rhein-Main AB, West Germany, to Dum-Dum Airport ...
The 19th Troop Carrier Squadron was an actual Air Force unit based in Hawaii and was one of the first to deploy for Operation Vittles in July 1948. However it participated only until August 26, when it was inactivated and its personnel and equipment absorbed into the 53rd Troop Carrier Squadron at Rhein-Main Air Base as depicted in The Big Lift ...
The 86th Fighter Wing was established and activated on 1 July 1948 at Neubiberg AB, Germany. ... aircraft at the 435th Airlift Wing at Rhein Main Air Base, Germany ...
Flew continuous missions across hostile Soviet Zone of Germany in Berlin Air Corridor, transporting supplies and equipment to airports in West Berlin, 1948-1949. Later operated from Rhein-Main Air Base and Wiesbaden Air Base in American Zone of Occupation, later part of West Germany, until blockade ended.
April 5 - The 1948 Gatow air disaster was a mid-air collision in the airspace above Berlin, Germany that occurred on 5 April 1948. June 24 - The Berlin Blockade started. August 1 - German magazine Stern was founded. October 2 - Hessischer Rundfunk started. IG Farben Trial; Krupp Trial; Pohl trial