Johnston Island Air Force Base is a former United States Air Force base on the Johnston Atoll in the United States Minor Outlying Islands, in the Pacific Ocean several hundred kilometers southwest of Hawaii. After its closure, it briefly operated as Johnston Atoll Airport, until that also closed in 2005.
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Johnston Atoll is an unincorporated territory of the United States, under the jurisdiction of the United States AirForce (USAF). The island is closed...
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the AirForce (JohnstonIslandAirForceBase) (1 Jul 1948 – 1 July 1973). Jack L. Bentley (1950s) James L. Pasquino (2000–2001) U.S. Army Johnston Atoll...
subsequently lengthened and improved as the island was enlarged. During WWII, Johnston Atoll was used as a refueling base for submarines, and also as an aircraft...
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1970 to 1995, on the former site of Kindley AirForceBase (originally built for the United States Army Air Forces during the Second World War as Kindley...
Wake Island was transferred from the U.S. Army to the U.S. AirForce's 15th Wing, an aviation unit of Pacific Air Forces based at Hickam AirForceBase in...
anchorage off one of the islands in March 1942 as part of Operation K. Naval Base Hawaii supported the Sand Island seaplane base on Johnston Atoll 1,514 km (940...
naval base from Nova Scotia to the Caribbean – 60 percent of the Fleet's air striking force in the Atlantic area from pole to pole. Fleet Air Wing Eleven...
by USS Johnston, launched a torpedo attack that sank one ship and sent the Japanese strike force into disarray. Japanese aircraft from the base at Luzon...
United States AirForce at Hickam AFB, Joint Base Pearl Harbor–Hickam, Hawaii. The wing reports to 11th AirForce, Headquartered at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson...
requiring components stored at Vandenberg AirForceBase to be airlifted by a C-124 Globemaster II to JohnstonIsland for deployment. These obstacles further...
fought on and around the atoll formed by Wake Island and its minor islets of Peale and Wilkes Islands by the air, land, and naval forces of the Japanese Empire...
were to be launched on missiles from JohnstonIsland in the Pacific Ocean north of the equator. JohnstonIsland had already been established as a launch...
infantry force; the British Army, the UK's principal land warfare branch; and the Royal AirForce, a technologically sophisticated airforce with a diverse...
United States Army and in later years sometimes the United States AirForce for air support. The United States amphibious operations dates back to the...
military base. Quoting his letter, he writes, ... the Navy Department has plans for the acquisition and development of the island as an airbase. Our representatives...
Air transports for heads of state and government are, in many countries, provided by the airforce in specially equipped airliners or business jets. One...
Assessment of Johnston Atoll" a 2003 publication produced by the United States Army Chemical Materials Agency that states, "in 1972, the U.S. AirForce also brought...
AirForceBase, California, but launch facilities were at JohnstonIslandAirForceBase. Two missiles were stationed at each location. In 1961, Air Force...
by the British Royal AirForce in June and August 1959. The facilities at SLC-10 were dismantled and transported to JohnstonIsland in support of Operation...
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