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Emblem of 7206th Air Base Group. Kalamaki Airfield being bombed by the USAAF 463rd Bomb Group (B-17's) on 15 September 1944. The airport was built in 1938, and after the German invasion of Greece in 1941, Kalamaki Airfield was used as a Luftwaffe air base during the occupation.
Built in 1938, Ellinikon International Airport was originally called Kalamaki Airfield. Following the German invasion of Greece in 1941, Kalamaki Airfield was used as a Luftwaffe air base during the occupation. After World War II, the Greek government allowed the United States to use the airport from 1945 until 1993.
7206th Air Base Group, at Hellenikon Air Base, Greece [16] Detachment 1, HQ, 7206th ABG – Iraklion AS (Kreta, GR) 7206th Security Police Squadron; 7206th Supply Squadron; 7206th Air Base Group Hospital; 7061st Munitions Support Squadron, at Araxos Air Base, Greece; 7275th Air Base Group, at San Vito dei Normanni Air Station, Italy
On November 14, while the Axis troops were retreating from Greece, the aircraft of the Squadron landed in Hassani Airfield (later the Hellenikon Air Base and Ellinikon International Airport), near Athens. Although mainland Greece was liberated, Crete and other islands were still under German occupation.
Three years later the squadron was reactivated as the 922d Strategic Squadron at Hellenikon Air Base, near Athens, Greece. It was assigned to the 306th Strategic Wing, which controlled SAC European operations from its station at Ramstein Air Base, Germany.
A Hellenic Air Force bus was transporting American servicemen from a Greek base to the American-operated Hellenikon Air Base when a remote-controlled car bomb exploded, causing the bus to lose control and hit a tree. It was initially reported the bus was hit by a rocket attack. The chief of Greece's police called it a "well-planned crime".
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