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2. Loring Air Force Base - Wikipedia

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   Loring AFB was carved out of the woods of Maine beginning in the late forties and officially dedicated in 1953, named after Charles J. Loring, Jr., who was killed in the Korean War. The closest Air Force base on the east coast to Europe, it was originally built with a capacity of 100 B-36 Peacemaker bombers and equipped with a 10,000-foot ...

3. A Maine Town's Long Recovery After Losing Loring AFB - AOL

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   Loring Air Force base, Library of Congress The Department of Defense's Base Closure and Realignment Commission ( BRAC ) plans to close 20 military bases across the country by Sept. 15, 2011.

4. Limelite - Wikipedia

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   Office of Information, Loring Air Force Base The Limelite was a broadsheet weekly newspaper that served Loring Air Force Base from 1953 to 1994. External links

5. Loring Military Heritage Center - Wikipedia

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   The Loring Military Heritage Center, near Limestone, Maine and named for pilot Charles J. Loring, Jr., was founded in 2005 by prior service military personnel and civilians who lived in the area. The museum was founded to preserve the rich history of the base, and the memories of the people who served there.

6. Cleaning Up the Toxic Legacy of Closed Military Bases - AOL

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   Active from 1953 to 1994, Maine's Loring AFB was the second-largest airfield in the Strategic Air Command. As a major aircraft servicing and refueling hub, it used a devil's brew of chemicals ...

7. Loring Air Force Base (CDP) - Wikipedia

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   Loring Air Force Base is a former census-designated place (CDP) in the town of Limestone in Aroostook County, Maine, United States. It was the site of Loring Air Force Base, at one time the largest base for the U.S. Air Force's Strategic Air Command. The population of the CDP was 225 at the 2000 census. It was not counted during the 2010 census.

8. Caribou Air Force Station - Wikipedia

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   Caribou Air Force Station, also known as North River Depot and East Loring, is a defunct Air Force Station that operated from 1951 until its absorption into Loring Air Force Base in 1962. It was located in Limestone, Maine , adjacent to Loring.

9. List of accidents and incidents involving military aircraft ...

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   A USAF Convair T-29D-CO, 52-5826, c/n 52–25, [2] returning to Langley AFB, Virginia, from Key Field, Meridian, Mississippi, with seven Air Force personnel on board, suffers mid-air collision at 1836 hrs. with a Cessna 150H, N50430, of Cavalier Flyers, with two U.S. Navy personnel on board, 4.1 miles (6.5 km) W of Newport News, Virginia, the ...