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Bermuda Base Command, US Army. 1941–1945. United States Army, Fort Bell. 1941–1948. United States Army Air Forces, Kindley Field. 1943–1948. United States Air Force, Kindley Air Force Base. 1948–1970. United States Naval Air Station Bermuda (St. George's Parish) (originally Kindley Field). 1970–1995.
The Royal Bermuda Regiment (RBR) is the home defence unit of the British Overseas Territory of Bermuda.It is a single territorial [2] infantry battalion that was formed on the amalgamation in 1965 of two originally voluntary units, the mostly black Bermuda Militia Artillery (BMA) and the almost entirely white Bermuda Rifles (titled the Bermuda Volunteer Rifle Corps (BVRC) until 1949), and the ...
Given the much smaller size of the army, the high cost per man of the Bermuda Garrison, and two part-time units in Bermuda (and which were capable of absorbing the responsibilities or the regular detachment), it was decided to withdraw the DCLI and all other regular soldiers (other than Permanent Staff Instructors and other attachments to the ...
The Bermuda Base Command was a command of the United States Army, established to defend the British Colony of Bermuda, located 640 miles off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. It was created in April 1941 when United States Army troops were sent to the island.
Among the American units deployed to Bermuda was a battery of two 155mm GPF artillery guns ("B" Battery, 57th Regiment, United States Army Coast Artillery Corps) deployed to Ackermann's Hill, on the northern side of the South Shore Road (behind Horseshoe Bay), in Southampton Parish (this part of Warwick Camp was disposed of after the war and ...
The Bermuda Volunteer Rifle Corps (BVRC) was created in 1894 as a reserve for the Regular Army infantry component of the Bermuda Garrison. [1] Renamed the Bermuda Rifles in 1951, it was amalgamated into the Bermuda Regiment in 1965.
The Parliament of Bermuda had authorised three part-time reserve units in 1892 to re-inforce the regular army detachments to the Bermuda Garrison. These replaced the original militia, raised in 1612, which had been raised under Militia Acts that required periodic renewal.
The United States Army garrisoned Bermuda with ground forces for the remainder of the war, including Fort Bell. Following the end of hostilities, its ground forces were withdrawn, other than those required for the defence of Fort Bell, on 1 January 1946, when US Army Air Transport Command took control of the entire base.