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Carswell Air Force Base is a former United States Air Force (USAF) base, located northwest of Fort Worth, Texas. For most of its operational lifetime, the base's mission was to train and support heavy strategic bombing groups and wings. Carswell was a major Strategic Air Command (SAC) base during the Cold War. It was the headquarters of several ...
Air Force Materiel Command. Air Force Plant 4 is a government-owned, contractor-operated aerospace facility in Fort Worth, Texas, currently owned by the U.S. Air Force and operated by Lockheed Martin Aeronautics. [1] It is home to the F-16 and F-35 fighter aircraft. [2] Military aircraft have been manufactured at the plant since 1942.
At 6:30 p.m. on Nov. 21, 1963, people begin to arrive at Carswell Air Force Base in anticipation of the president’s arrival. Police estimate the crowd at 6,000. Air Force One lands at 11:07 p.m ...
Spectators watch as President Jimmy Carter arrives at Carswell Air Force Base, now Navy Air Station Joint Reserve Base Fort Worth, for a visit to the city on June 23, 1978.
He worked hard advocating to keep Carswell Air Force Base (now Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Fort Worth) open and helped politicians and judges get elected to local offices. “He was a ...
Major Horace S. Carswell, Jr. (1916–1944) Carswell Air Force Base was named after Medal of Honor recipient Major Horace S. Carswell, Jr., USAAF (1916–1944). Major Carswell was returning from an attack on Japanese shipping in the South China Sea on 26 October 1944 when he attempted to save a crewmember whose parachute had been destroyed by flak.
7th Bombardment Wing shield (former) (approved 12 September 1952)[2] Aircraft flown. Bomber. B-1B. The 7th Bomb Wing (7 BW) is a United States Air Force unit assigned to the Global Strike Command Eighth Air Force. It is stationed at Dyess Air Force Base, Texas, where it is also the host unit. The 7 BW is one of only two B-1B Lancer strategic ...
The Grand Prairie Armed Forces Reserve Complex or Grand Prairie AFRC (formerly Naval Air Station Dallas or Hensley Field) is a former United States Navy Naval Air Station located on Mountain Creek Lake in southwest Dallas. The installation was established as an Army aviation center, and eventually became home to aviation assets from all the ...