Advance airfield and forward airfield are military terms for a relatively primitive ad-hoc airfield used for refueling and re-arming air units as part...

S. Navy Seabees built over 400 advance bases categorized by size. Naval bases were either Lions or Cubs while airfields were either Oaks or Acorns. Lions...

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number of names, such as the following: Ammunition dump Armory Arsenal Advance airfield Barracks Border outpost Cantonment Casern Combat outpost (COP) Facility...

X-Band Radar FOB, Adak, Alaska FOB Mailfoot, Fort Benning, Georgia Advance airfield Advanced landing ground Fire support base Forward operating site Loss-of-strength...

– combat search and rescue unit. Unit 5700 – establish Advance airfield and forward airfield. Shayetet 7 - the unit which operates Israel's submarines...

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Desna Rivers.[citation needed] At 07:00, Bock flew from Posen to an advance airfield near the headquarters of XIII Infantry Corps. There, Major General...

Farah, Ghor and Herat. List of Afghan Armed Forces installations Advance airfield Advanced Landing Ground Fire support base Forward operating base Forward...

and communication installations, command and control centers and advance airfields using conventional warhead. The system is road mobile and meets the...

Frequencies Brits Airfield 124.20 MHz (Unmanned) The airfield has Landing Lights. As these are not automated, arrangements need to be made in advance. The following...

USSR infantry saved him and he received a war trophy aircraft on an advance airfield. The next day the reinforcements come to the regiment and are being...

At the Battle of Wau in January 1943, the Australian Army stopped an advance by the Japanese. A road was established soon after World War II to Lae...

ten B-25 Mitchells led by Haynes took off on the final leg from an advance airfield at Kunming, accompanied by seven P-40s commanded by Scott. The small...

(secondary coordinates) Advanced landing grounds (ALGs) were temporary advance airfields constructed by the Allies during World War II during the liberation...

Sviatoshyn Airfield (Ukrainian Аеродром «Святошин»), formerly known as Svyatoshino, is an industrial airfield in Kyiv, Ukraine, located 11 km northwest...

Naval Base Saipan or Naval Advance Base Saipan or Naval Air Base Saipan was a United States Navy Naval base built during World War II to support Pacific...

Naval Advance Base Espiritu Santo or Naval Base Espiritu Santo, most often just called Espiritu Santo, was a major advance Naval base that the U.S. Navy...

main force—landing on the eastern side—advanced north towards the airfields. The advance met light resistance at first but was slowed by the swampy terrain...

the necessities of war meant the squadron was needed in the "Zone of Advance" (the Western Front), for combat duties as soon as possible. On 5 March...

approaching the coast. Skiba finds a solution - land on an old German advance airfield from the Second World War. The crew manages to do this. The plane receives...

Landing Party was to land at the same time as the advance party and commence construction of an airfield at Buna. Japanese planning proceeded on the premise...

part of an effort to capture the Japanese airfield that had been constructed at Munda Point. This advance had become bogged down, and while the Allies...

Nukufetau Airfield is a former World War II airfield on the south-eastern side of Nukufetau on Motulalo Island in Tuvalu during the Pacific War. Nukufetau...

Although the airfield was not finished yet, advance parties of the Group was sent there with the remainder sent to Cretteville Airfield (A-14) on 25 August...

suicide attack that killed up to 23 people and injured 20 more at the Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan, while Dick Cheney, the Vice President of the United States...

Group, which flew P-40 Warhawks from the airfield between 9–21 March 1943 during the British Eighth Army's advance into Tunisia from Libya, to which the...

Nanumea Airfield is a former World War II airfield on the island of Nanumea in the Ellice Islands (now known as Tuvalu). Nanumea Airfield was built by...

Bomber Command to India. Advance Army Air Forces echelons arrived in India in December 1943 to organize the upgrading of the airfield and thousands of Indians...