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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.
Air Force Materiel Command 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 .
Air Force Station (sometimes Air Station), Air Reserve Station or Air National Guard Station is used to name installations, typically but not exclusively without a flying mission, that are operated by a unit of at least squadron size, that does not otherwise meet the criteria of being a base. Air Force Auxiliary Airfield is used if the ...
Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. ... Dobbins Air Reserve Base; F. Fort Belvoir; ... United States Air Force Plant 6; United States Air Force Plant 42; V.
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.
The wing was reactivated in the reserves in June 1952 at what was now called Dobbins Air Force Base [5] as the 94th Tactical Reconnaissance Wing, replacing the 902d Reserve Training Wing. The reserve mobilization for the Korean war had left the reserve without aircraft, and the unit did not receive aircraft until July.
10 a.m.: Motorcade departs for Dobbins Air Reserve Base, Georgia. 10:40 a.m.: Late president and family members arrive at Dobbins Air Reserve Base and board Special Air Mission 39.
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 ...