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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.
The 301st was reactivated in July 1972 as the 301st Tactical Fighter Wing at Carswell Air Force Base, Texas in the United States Air Force Reserve. Upon reactivation the wing was assigned the Republic F-105 Thunderchief , with the Carswell-based 457th Fighter Squadron using specially modified version of the F-105D called the "Thunderstick II".
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.
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 ...
The Tenth Air Force (10 AF) is a unit of the U.S. Air Force, specifically a numbered air force of the Air Force Reserve Command (AFRC). 10 AF is headquartered at Naval Air Station Fort Worth Joint Reserve Base/Carswell Field (formerly Carswell AFB), Texas.
Air echelon operated from West Field, Tinian, 23 March–11 May 1945. Camp Anza, California, 15–16 December 1945; Dow Air Force Base, Maine, 20 January 1953; Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma, 20 March 1955 – 1 April 1959; Carswell Air Force Base (later Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Fort Worth), Texas, 8 July 1972 – present [2]
Then, he and first lady Jackie Kennedy rode in a motorcade through downtown on the way to Carswell Air Force Base, where they’d fly to Dallas. We all know what would happen there.
The 19th Air Division is an inactive United States Air Force formation. Its last assignment was with Eighth Air Force at Carswell Air Force Base , Texas, where it was inactivated on 30 September 1988.