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The station was established in March 1942 as Sioux City Army Air Base (AAB) and was a major training center during World War II [2] under II Bomber Command for crew members of B-24 Liberators and B-17 Flying Fortresses. During the 1950s, the airfield was an Air Defense Command fighter-interceptor base.
Sioux City Air National Guard Base: II Bomber Command B-17/B-24 Bomber Training 354th Army Air Force Base Unit: Sioux City: Closed 1945. Used by Air Defense Command as an Interceptor base, 1946-1968; Ground Control Radar station, 1959-1970. Now joint-use civilian airport and Iowa ANG base for KC-135 air refueling aircraft. Spencer Field Spencer ...
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353d Army Air Force Base Unit (Det) Now: Pierre Regional Airport (IATA: PIR, ICAO: KPIR) Second Air Force. Rapid City AAB, Rapid City; 353d Army Air Force Base Unit Was: Rapid City Air Field (1947) Was: Weaver Air Force Base (1948) Was: Rapid City Air Force Base (1948-1953) Now: Ellsworth Air Force Base (1953-Present) Sioux Falls AAF, Sioux Falls
Sioux City Army Air Base closed in December 1945, [7] but in September 1946, the airfield was opened by the Air Force Reserve. Sioux City Air Base was one of the first Air Force Reserve bases established after the war, and in December 1946, the 185th Iowa Air National Guard unit was established at Sioux City. Assigned to the new Air Defense ...
It was part of Second Air Force, and last stationed at Sioux City Army Air Base, Iowa, where it was inactivated on 1 April 1944. During World War II the group was a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress Operational Training Unit, and later a Replacement Training Unit. It was inactivated in April 1944 in a general reorganization of Army Air Forces ...
At 1735 Central War Time three miles (4.8 km) west of White City, Kansas, a B-24D-13-CO, 41-23961, c/n 756, of the 469th Bomb Squadron, 333d Bomb Group, out of Topeka Army Air Base, piloted by Robert Clyne, suffered a catastrophic structural failure due to ice. All were killed instantly except for Lt Maleckas, who escaped by parachute.
The 174th Air Refueling Squadron (174th ARS) is a unit of the Iowa Air National Guard 185th Air Refueling Wing. It is assigned to Sioux City Air National Guard Base , Iowa and is equipped with the KC-135R Stratotanker aircraft.