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Alachua Army Airfield
Part of Army Air Forces Training Command Third Air Force
AlachuaArmy Airfield, was a World War II United States ArmyAir Force airfield, located 4.2 miles (6.8 km) northeast of Gainesville, Florida. Construction...
1944 AlachuaArmyAirField(-1944) Orlando ArmyAir Base 910th ArmyAir Forces Base Unit (Fighter, Two Engine) 29 March–31 May 1944 Leesburg ArmyAir Field(-May...
dedicate the new military base, named Lakeland ArmyAirField. The base was assigned to the Third Air Force, III Bomber Command, and the 60th Flying Training...
Central and Northern Florida. Kaystone AAF was assigned as a sub-base of AlachuaArmy Airfield, near Gainesville. During the war, Keystone AAF was the home...
Air Force School of Applied Tactics at Orlando Army Air Base. Leesburg was a sub-base of Alachua AAF with the 322d Service Squadron performed third echelon...
United States Army Corps of Engineers, the facility was known as the AlachuaArmy Airfield and was used by the ArmyAir Corps and the ArmyAir Forces. The...
City ArmyAirField, Florida, 9 June 1944 AlachuaArmyAirField, Florida, 21 June 1944 Drew Field, Florida, 17 August 1944 Lakeland ArmyAirField, Florida...
With the transfer, Cross City was assigned to Third Air Force and became a sub-base of AlachuaArmy Airfield, near Gainesville, assigned to the Commando...
States Air Force Special Operations Command, stationed at Kadena Air Base, Japan. The Wing's first predecessor was activated in 1944 as the 3rd Air Commando...
behind enemy lines to do battle. Formed as the 2nd Air Commando Group at Lakeland ArmyAirField, Florida on 22 April 1944 and sent to India under Colonel...
October 1994 Eighth Air Force, 28 October 1943 – 9 April 1944 2d Air Commando Group, 1 May 1944 Tenth Air Force, 10 September 1945 US Army Forces, India-Burma...
During World War II, the United States ArmyAir Forces (USAAF) established numerous airfields in Florida for antisubmarine defense in the western Atlantic...
Field, Arizona before returning to Florida. In October 1942 the 81st moved to Orlando ArmyAirField Florida. By the end of September, the ArmyAir Forces...
Thomas Adams Smith led 220 U.S. Army regulars and Tennessee volunteers in a raid on Payne's Town, the chief town of the Alachua Seminoles. Smith's force found...
Ground Air Support Command (later II Air Support Command) until 23 September 1942) ArmyAir Forces School of Applied Tactics, 21 January 1943 Air Support...
ball game with sticks. The game began with the ball being tossed into the air and the two sides rushing to catch it. Because of the large number of players...
media related to Squadron emblems of the United States Air Force. This is a list of United States Air Force Bomb Squadrons. It covers all squadrons that were...
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