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During World War II, the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) established numerous airfields in New York for training pilots and aircrews of USAAF fighters and bombers. Most of these airfields were under the command of First Air Force or the Army Air Forces Training Command (AAFTC) (A predecessor of the current-day United States Air Force Air ...
Photograph of segment of taxiway remaining on the site of RAF Snailwell in December 2005, taken at grid reference looking roughly North East. Royal Air Force Snailwell or more simply RAF Snailwell is a former Royal Air Force station located near to the village of Snailwell, Cambridgeshire, located 3 miles (4.8 km) north of Newmarket, Suffolk, England.
The Ragged Irregulars of Bassingbourn: The 91st Bombardment Group in World War II. ISBN 0-88740-810-9. Jefford, C G (1988). RAF Squadrons. A comprehensive record of the movement and equipment of all RAF squadrons and their antecedents since 1912. Shrewsbury: Airlife. ISBN 1-85310-053-6. Maurer, M. Air Force Combat Units Of World War II. USAF ...
The airfield was originally built in 1941 for RAF Bomber Command, then expanded to Class A airfield standards for use by American heavy bombers during 1942. Kimbolton was assigned to the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) Eighth Air Force. It was given the designation USAAF Station 117.
The Nassau County Police Heliport (FAA ID: 8NY9) is a publicly owned police heliport, located in Bethpage, New York. The heliport was activated in November 1941 and is used by the Nassau County Police Department as a base for some of its police helicopter operations. [27] It is located on the north side of the former Grumman Bethpage Airport. [27]
The 3d consisted of the 5th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th and 23d squadrons and only stayed at the airfield until 10 December, departing for La Senia Algeria as part of Operation Torch. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] During the stay of the 3d PRG, Lieutenant-Colonel Elliott Roosevelt , son of Franklin D. Roosevelt served as commander and also flew an F-4 "Lightning" .
Later assigned to First Air Force, the 437th Army Air Force Base Unit defended the New York City area and flew antisubmarine patrols. After World War II, the airfield was conveyed to Suffolk County for use as a civilian airport, but to include a reversal clause if future military use was ever needed.
RAF Bomber Airfields of World War 2. Shepperton, Surrey, UK: Ian Allan Publishing, 1995. ISBN 0 7110 2080 9. Falconer, J (2012). RAF Airfields of World War 2. UK: Ian Allan Publishing. ISBN 978-1-85780-349-5. Bowyer, Michael. Wartime military airfields of East Anglia. Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, UK: Patrick Stephens, 1979. ISBN 0 85059 335 2.