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Air Force personnel working in an underground pit to recover parts of the MK-39 nuclear bomb The battered MC-722 Arm/Safe Switch from Weapon No. 2 in the Goldsboro B-52 accident, 1961. Weapon no. 2 (kept in the forward bomb bay) separated from the B-52 later than weapon no. 1, when it was between 5,000 feet (1,500 m) and 2,000 feet (610 m ...
Marshland on the southern edge. The Dare County Bombing Range is a US Air Force managed and operated facility and is located in Dare County, North Carolina.The range serves as an air to surface bombing range for the US Air Force and US Navy who is a tenant command on the northern portion of the range [1] The range is also used for some select special operations and Joint Terminal Attack ...
It was established in World War II as Naval Auxiliary Air Station Harvey Point, an operating base for sea planes conducting anti-submarine surveillance off the Atlantic coast. A close by naval facility, Naval Air Station Weeksville , served as a blimp base from 1941 to 1957, while another former naval air facility remains active as Coast Guard ...
The 51st Bombardment Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit. It was last assigned to the 68th Bombardment Wing at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, North Carolina, where it was inactivated on 30 September 1982. The squadron was first activated in 1947 in the reserve as the 51st Reconnaissance Squadron. It does not appear to have ...
A frightening moment in the 1950s has mostly been forgotten today — the release of an unloaded nuclear bomb by the Air Force over the Palmetto State. That time the U.S. government accidentally ...
1964 Operation Chrome Dome Map from Sheppard Air Force Base, TX 1966 overview of US airborne alert routes, based on a document used by White House staff.. Operation Chrome Dome was a United States Air Force Cold War-era mission from 1961 to 1968 in which B-52 strategic bomber aircraft armed with thermonuclear weapons remained on continuous airborne alert, flying routes that put them in ...
Seymour Johnson Air Force Base is a United States Air Force (USAF) base located in Goldsboro, North Carolina. [2] The base is named for U.S. Navy Lt. Seymour A. Johnson, a test pilot from Goldsboro who died in an F4F Wildcat crash near Norbeck, Maryland, on March 5, 1941.
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Squadron emblems of the United States Air Force. This is a list of United States Air Force Bomb Squadrons. It covers all squadrons that were constituted or redesignated as bombardment squadron sometime during their active service. Today Bomb Squadrons are considered to be part of the Combat Air Force (CAF) along with fighter squadrons. Units in this list ...