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Greenville Air Force Base, South Carolina, 16 October 1950 – 14 July 1952; Greater Pittsburgh Airport, Pennsylvania, 14 July 1952 – 16 November 1957; Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma, 8 January 1966; Altus Air Force Base, Oklahoma 20 January 1969 – 30 September 2008; Altus Air Force Base, Oklahoma, 1 August 2016 – present [8]
During World War II the squadron trained crews and technicians for photographic reconnaissance and mapping, 1942–1944.. Reactivated in 1955 under Strategic Air Command (SAC) as a KC-97 air refueling squadron, it participated in SAC tests, exercises, and air refueling operations and other Air Force commands in North America, Europe, and the Pacific Far East, and Southeast Asia, from 1955 onward.
Altus Air Force Base (Altus AFB, AAFB) (IATA: LTS, ICAO: KLTS, FAA LID: LTS) is a United States Air Force base located approximately 4 miles (6.4 km) east-northeast of Altus, Oklahoma. The host unit at Altus AFB is the 97th Air Mobility Wing (97 AMW), assigned to the Nineteenth Air Force (19 AF) of the Air Education and Training Command (AETC).
It is stationed at Altus Air Force Base, Oklahoma. Col. Cornelius Walter "Connie" Cousland [1] served as the first commander of the 97th Bombardment Group once activated on 3 February 1942 at MacDill Field in Tampa, Florida through 29 July 1942 at Polebrook Field in England; and was replaced by Col. Frank Alton Armstrong, Jr. on 31 July 1942. [2]
Moved to Dyess AFB, TX after closure of Carswell AFB and transfer to US Navy as NAS JRB Fort Worth/Carswell Field; became B-1B Wing (9th BS) 9th Bombardment Squadron 20th Bombardment Squadron (from 2d BW 6/65 to 2d BW 12/92) 492nd Bombardment Squadron (to 4228th SW at Columbus AFB) 11th Bombardment (later Strategic Aerospace) Wing, Altus AFB ...
Balfour Beatty Communities agreed to pay about $33.6 million in criminal fines and $31.8 million in restitution, officials said. Military housing company, including at Dyess AFB, reaches agreement ...
It formerly operated both the combat crew training school and central flight instructor course for Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker at Altus Air Force Base, Oklahoma. The squadron 's first predecessor was the 755th Bombardment Squadron , which was first activated in July 1943.
Naval Air Station Clinton (1942–1969) In Washita County. Trained naval aviators during World War II. The U.S. Navy left the area in 1946. In 1954 the U.S. Air Force took over the site to train bomber pilots and the name was changed to Clinton-Sherman Air Force Base. In 1959 Clinton-Sherman became a bomber base housing B-52 Stratofortresses ...