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A Westover Air Force Base sign. Following the establishment of the U.S. Air Force in 1947, Westover Field became Westover Air Force Base. In 1951, Air Defense Command (ADC) arrived, but then turned over the base to Strategic Air Command (SAC) in 1955 with the relocation of Headquarters, Eighth Air Force (HQ 8AF) to Westover AFB
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Westover Air Reserve Base, then known as Westover Field, was built in 1939 in anticipation of its need under the looming threat of war.As a national organization, the Civil Air Patrol was created on December 1, 1941, in response to an observed need to support civil defense and general aviation during World War II.
The command post was linked to the main base by buried cables and microwave antennae. The U-2 spy plane film that set off the Cuban Missile Crisis was developed at Westover. It was a base of operations for the Air Force in both the Korean War and the Vietnam War. Bombing and cargo missions in Vietnam were made directly from Westover.
Curtis LeMay (1906–1990), Air Force general who strategized the US bombardment of the Pacific Theater in World War II; stationed at Westover Air Reserve Base with the 34th Bombardment Group, winter 1940–1941 [36]: 8 [37] John MacKenzie (1886–1933), Navy chief petty officer, Medal of Honor recipient, namesake of Mackenzie Stadium [38]
Massachusetts’ World War II military past includes Hanscom Air Force Base, the former Bedford Army Air Field, which hosted hundreds of planes and U.S. Army Air Corps pilots throughout World War II.
In 1957, Strategic Air Command began construction for a hardened bunker to contain the command post for the 8th Air Force, which was located at nearby Westover Air Force Base, Chicopee, Massachusetts. The facility was located inside Bare Mountain, off Route 116, and was nicknamed "The Notch", after the adjacent pass.