Ponte Olivo Airfield is an abandoned pre-World War II airport and later wartime military airfield in Sicily, 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) north of Gela. Its last known use was by the United States Army Air Force Twelfth Air Force in 1944 during the Italian Campaign.
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for Licata Sicily, where they set up their first base in Europe at PonteOlivoAirfield, flying the group's first mission from Italy on 5 August. An attack...
personnel were assigned to the 3rd Bombardment Group at Charters Towers Airfield in Queensland, Australia. The remaining A-24 aircraft were added to the...
transporting supplies and equipment from the depots to field units at airfields in the Western United States. After the Pearl Harbor Attack, the squadron...
training in flying and fighting with RAF pilots in the British aircraft from airfields in southeast England. The squadron flew its first combat mission on 18...
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Operation Torch, the invasion of North Africa, and moved to Tafaraoui Airfield, Algeria. In combat, the squadron performed resupply and evacuation missions...
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Air Corps activated the 27th Bombardment Group (Light) at Barksdale Army Airfield, Louisiana and equipped it with the Douglas B-18 Bolo Light bomber aircraft...
after Operation Torch invasion of North Africa, stationed at Tafaraoui Airfield, Algeria. In combat, performed resupply and evacuation missions across...
training in flying and fighting with RAF pilots in the British aircraft from airfields in southeast England. The squadron flew its first combat mission on 18...
Allied invasion of Sicily he led the 2/18th Infantry when it captured PonteOlivoAirfield. After the war, Sternberg graduated from the Command and General...
to North Africa. The squadron began flying combat missions from Oujda Airfield in French Morocco. It performed troop carrier and transport airlift of...
Troop Carrier Group on 1 July 1942. The units next moved to Tafaraoui Airfield, Algeria, and was assigned to Twelfth Air Force. During the war in Europe...
for Licata Sicily, where they set up their first base in Europe at PonteOlivoAirfield, flying their first mission from Italy on 5 August. An attack on...
1943 Korba Airfield, Tunisia, c. 15 May 1943 Gozo, Malta, c. 30 June 1943 PonteOlivoAirfield, Sicily, Italy, c. 14 July 1943 Agrigento Airfield, Sicily...
November 1942. Was reassigned to Twelfth Air Force and moved to Tafaraoui Airfield, Algeria on 15 November 1942. The squadron's aircraft flew supplies to...
service 25 November 1940 and trained with the 36th Division at Brownwood Airfield Texas until Pearl Harbor was bombed, it was sent to the Mexican border...
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Group for a combat airdrop of 530 British airborne troops on German held airfields at Depienne, Pont-du-Fahs, and Oudna, Tunisia in an unsuccessful attempt...
when American aircraft moved to the PonteOlivoAirfield in Sicily. The last planes left on 19 July, and the airfield was cleared back to agricultural land...
Infantry Division took PonteOlivo on 12 July and continued north, while 45th Infantry Division on the right had taken the airfield at Comiso and entered...
Sicily, to expand the captured area, and to seize the nearby airfield at PonteOlivo. At 02:46 on 10 July the first assault waves hit the Gela beaches...
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