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The museum is located on the site of World War II South Plains Army Air Field, where glider pilots were trained between 1942 and 1945, and after which time they were required also to command skills in powered flight. The giant "silent wing" gliders flew soldiers and supplies largely undetected behind enemy lines because they had no engine noise.
Muse Air later merged into Southwest Airlines. Braniff declared bankruptcy and shut down in 1982. Continental and Texas International merged in late 1982 then Continental left Lubbock in 1983 after declaring bankrupty as well. The late 1970's and early 1980's also saw several commuter airlines; Crown Air flew to Clovis and Albuquerque, NM.
Closed December 1945; opened 1951. Later Hondo Air Base, closed 1958; still used for flight screening program. San Marcos Army Airfield, San Marcos, Texas AAF Advanced Navigation School Opened: January 1943, Closed: September 1945 (AT-7) [5] Reopened 1951 as Gary Air Force Base. Closed 1963 South Plains Army Airfield, Lubbock, Texas AAF Glider ...
Reese Air Force Base began as the Lubbock Army Air Corps Advanced Flying School in 1942. [1] It was renamed Lubbock Army Flying School in 1943 and then Lubbock Army Airfield later that same year. In 1949, it was renamed Reese Air Force Base in honor of a local West Texas pilot, Augustus F. Reese Jr., who was killed in a bombing raid over Italy ...
Wilford Hall Ambulatory Surgical Center is the Air Force's largest outpatient facility, providing a full range of primary care, specialty care, and outpatient surgery. At SAMMC, the DOD's largest inpatient medical facility, nearly 2,000 59th MDW personnel work with Army medics in areas such as the bone marrow transplant center, the burn unit ...
The Air National Guard's 280th Special Operations Communications Squadron (280th SOCS) is a communications unit located at Hall Air Guard Station, Dothan Regional Airport, Alabama. [2] The 280th SOCS provides tactical communication services to state, military and federal agencies utilizing state of the art information systems.
Most people enter military service “with the fundamental sense that they are good people and that they are doing this for good purposes, on the side of freedom and country and God,” said Dr. Wayne Jonas, a military physician for 24 years and president and CEO of the Samueli Institute, a non-profit health research organization.
The wing was a World War II Command and Control organization which supported Training Command Flight Schools in Central and Northern Texas and Oklahoma. The assigned schools provided phase III advanced two-engine flying training for Air Cadets, along with advanced B-25 Mitchell transition training for experienced pilots for reassignment to other flying units.