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In 1950, the Air Force renamed the base Dobbins Air Force Base in honor of Captain Charles M. Dobbins of Marietta, a World War II transport pilot. Captain Dobbins died near Sicily on July 11, 1943, when US Navy gunners who had earlier suffered a Luftwaffe (German air force) attack mistakenly downed his C-47.
Dobbins Air Force Base: Marietta: Georgia: 1968 Redesignated as Dobbins Air Reserve Base: Donaldson Air Force Base: Greenville: South Carolina: 1963 Closed Dow Air Force Base: Bangor: Maine: 1968 Redesignated as Bangor Air National Guard Base: Eaker Air Force Base: Blytheville: Arkansas: 1992 Closed Edward Gary Air Force Base: San Marcos: Texas ...
Home to the Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center, Air Force Safety Center and Air Force Operational Test and Evaluation Center. The 58th Special Operations Wing and the New Mexico Air National Guard's 150th Special Operations Wing train special operations crews to operate the CV-22B Osprey , HC-130J Combat King II , MC-130J Commando II , HH-60G ...
Air Force Plant 6, known during World War II as the Bell Bomber Plant, is a government-owned, contractor-operated aerospace facility at Dobbins Air Reserve Base in Marietta, Georgia, currently owned by the United States Air Force and operated by Lockheed Martin Aeronautics.
Second Air Force 1949–1975. Eighth Air Force 1975–1992. 4th Air Division 1952–1964. 311th Air Division 1949. 2d Bomb Wing 1963–1991. 2d Wing 1991–1992. 91st Strategic Reconnaissance Wing 1949–1951. 301st Bomb Wing 1949–1958. 311th Reconnaissance Group 1948–1949; 376th Bomb Wing 1951–1957. 4220th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing ...
Map of the small U.S. military installations, ranges and training areas in the continental United States. This is a list of military installations owned or used by the United States Armed Forces both in the United States and around the world.
McGuire AFB: Air Guard logo, w/white or black "NEW JERSEY" with AFOUA: F-105B: 1964–1981 113 TFG: 121 TFS: Andrews AFB: Thin blue strip w/white borders and "DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA" and 121st TFS logo below cockpit: F-105D/F: 1971–1981 116 TFG: 128 TFS: Dobbins AFB: Yellow canopy rails and yellow band w/white borders on tail fin, with ...
McChord Air Force Base, Washington, 12 July 1947 – 27 June 1949; Buffalo Municipal Airport, New York, 8 July 1952; Niagara Falls Municipal Airport, New York, 15 June 1955; Dobbins Air Force Base (later Dobbins Air Reserve Base), Georgia, 16 November 1957 – Present [1]