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Hill Air Force Base (IATA: HIF, ICAO: KHIF, FAA LID: HIF) is a major U.S. Air Force (USAF) base located in Davis County, Utah, just south of the city of Ogden, and bordering the Cities of Layton, Clearfield, Riverdale, Roy, and Sunset with its largest border immediately adjacent to Clearfield and Layton. It is about 30 miles (48 km) north of ...
Now: Hill Air Force Base And: Ogden Air Logistics Center Hinckley Field, Ogden Sub-base of Hill AAF Now: Ogden-Hinckley Airport (IATA: OGD, ICAO: KOGD, FAA LID: OGD) Army Air Forces Training Command. Kearns Army Air Base; Army Air Forces Replacement Training Center/Army Air Forces Basic Training Center No.5, 1 May 1942-30 September 1943 Army ...
1941-1945. 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 ...
Gilson Butte - Former rocket testing facility. Granite Peak Installation - Former biological weapons testing facility. Green River Launch Complex. Hurricane Supersonic Research Site. Kearns Army Air base. Ogden Defense Depot. Ogden Arsenal - Reserve depot built 1920, combined with Hill Air Force base in 1955. Wendover Air Force Base.
The base employed over 22,000 civilians and military personnel, making it a major employer in the state. [2] Plane being inspected at Wendover Air Field. Hill Air Force Base served as a key repair and overhaul center for aircraft, including bombers and fighter planes, and played an essential role in maintaining the war effort in the Pacific..
World War II tail marking [1] H within a square. The 388th Operations Group is the flying component of the 388th Fighter Wing, assigned to the Air Combat Command Twelfth Air Force. The group is stationed at Hill Air Force Base, Utah. During World War II, its predecessor unit, the 388th Bombardment Group was an Eighth Air Force Boeing B-17 ...
AIR-2 Genie nuclear air-to-air rocket sitting on a MF-9 Transport Trailer inside the jet hangar of Hill Aerospace Museum. A Northrop F-89H Scorpion in the outdoor air park, in front of the museum. Hill Aerospace Museum is a military aviation museum located at Hill Air Force Base in Roy, Utah. It is dedicated to the history of the base and ...
419th Fighter Wing. The 419th Fighter Wing (419 FW) is an Air Reserve Component (ARC) unit of the United States Air Force. It is assigned to the Tenth Air Force, Air Force Reserve Command, and is stationed at Hill Air Force Base, Utah. The 419th FW is an associate unit of the 388th Fighter Wing, Air Combat Command (ACC), and if mobilized the ...