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Columbia Army Air Base was a World War II United States Army Air Forces base. It was primarily used for advanced combat training of B-25 Mitchell medium bomber units and replacement pilots. It was used as a training base in early 1942 for Doolittle's Raiders. It was closed during the summer of 1945, and turned over for civil use as the Columbia ...
Second Air Force and Air Technical Service Command. Casper Army Air Field, Casper, Wyoming; 331st Bombardment Group (Heavy), 15 September 1942-1 April 1944 351st Base Headquarters and Air Base Squadron (Second AF), 15 September 1942-1 April 1944 211th Army Air Force Base Unit (Second AF), 1 April 1944-7 March 1945
A Consolidated B-24E-20-CF Liberator, 41-29052, c/n 44, of the 579th Bombardment Squadron, 392d Bombardment Group, [85] operating out of Topeka Army Air Base, en route to Duluth, Minnesota, on a navigation training flight, crashed 10 miles SW of Boone, [86] (N 41° 57.1081', W 93° 58.) [87] after losing part of starboard wing in a thunderstorm ...
Mather Air Force Base; McClellan Air Force Base; Presidio of San Francisco; Sacramento Army Depot; San Carlos War Dog Training Center; Colorado Fitzsimons Army Medical Center; Camp Hale; Fort Garland; Camp George West Historic District COANG; Rocky Mountain Arsenal; District of Columbia – Washington, D.C. Camp Leach; Walter Reed Army Medical ...
The 464th Bombardment Squadron was first activated in July 1942 at Salt Lake City Army Air Base, Utah as one of the four original squadrons of the 331st Bombardment Group. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In September it moved to Casper Army Air Field , where it became a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress Replacement Training Unit until 1943, when it converted to the ...
The 331st was converted to a Very Heavy group in July 1944 and began training for deployment to the Twentieth Air Force in the Pacific. The 211th Army Air Force Base Unit took control of the airfield. Casper AAF became part of the Air Transport Command as a transit station for WASP pilots ferrying combat aircraft across the United States. The ...
The 461st Bombardment Squadron was first activated in July 1942 at Salt Lake City Army Air Base, Utah as one of the four original squadrons of the 331st Bombardment Group. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In September it moved to Casper Army Air Field , where it became a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress Replacement Training Unit until 1943, when it converted to the ...
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