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The Cactus Air Force was the ensemble of Allied air power assigned to the island of Guadalcanal from August 1942 until December 1942 during the most heavily contested phases of the Guadalcanal Campaign, particularly those operating from Henderson Field. The name is based on "Cactus", the Allied code name for the island.
Cactus re-emerged in June 2006, in New York City: a radio broadcast on The Radiochick Show and their first show since 1972 at B.B. King's Blues Club in Times Square on June 3. This show was a warm up for the gig which sparked the reunion, an appearance at the Sweden Rock Festival in Norje , Sweden on June 9.
Band of the United States Air Force Reserve (581st Air Force Band), disbanded in 2012 [3] 502nd Air Force Band (Keesler AFB, MS) 505th Air Force Band (Chanute AFB, IL) 509th Air Force Band (Webb AFB, TX; 515th Air Force Band (Bryan AFB, TX) 521st Air Force Band (F.E. Warren AFB, WY) 522nd Air Force Band (Ramey AFB, Puerto Rico)
The organization acquired four O-2s from Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in 1996. [1]The organization received approval to build a 12,000 sq ft (1,100 m 2) facility from the airport authority in May 2013.
He also was a president and board chairman of the Air Force Association and as a Director of the United States Air Force Academy. [33] In 2000, he served as a consultant on the popular computer game Combat Flight Simulator 2 by Microsoft. [42] A complete listing of Foss's affiliations and honors is given at The Joe Foss Institute. [43]
A new Torpedo Squadron 8 was established in 1943 as part of the new Carrier Air Group 8 (CVG-8). It was assigned to the newly commissioned aircraft carrier Intrepid at Norfolk in November 1943. After training in the Caribbean Sea , VT-8 left Intrepid at Pearl Harbor in January 1944. [ 2 ]
English: Cactus Air Force aircraft crowd Henderson Field, Guadalcanal, circa in 1942. Visible are (circa) 21 Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bombers, eight Grumman TBF-1 Avenger torpedo bombers, three Consolidated PBY-5A Catalina patrol planes and four Boeing B-17E/F Flying Fortress bombers.
Marine Fighting Squadron 132 (VMF-132) was a fighter squadron in the United States Marine Corps.The squadron, also known as "The Crying Red Asses", fought in World War II as a dive bomber unit during the Battle of Guadalcanal as part of the Cactus Air Force and later fought in the Central Solomon Islands.