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    Naval Air Station Port Lyautey is a former United States Navy Naval Air Station in Morocco, about 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) north-northwest of Kenitra and...
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    Kenitra (redirect from Port Lyautey)
    similarly named Kénitra Province. During the Cold War, the US Naval Air Station Port Lyautey served as a stopping point in North Africa. The history of the...
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    Port Lyautey. At Port Lyautey in northwestern, Morocco the US Navy operated Naval Air Station Port Lyautey, starting in February 1943. Port Lyautey (now...
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    Morocco. It was a U.S. Navy installation connected to the Naval Air Station Port Lyautey in Kenitra, Morocco. The base was closed in 1976. Following...
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  • training wing for air force transport pilots was added, the training starts with King Air Beechcraft. Naval Air Station Port Lyautey Airport information...
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    The Battle of Port Lyautey began on 8 November 1942 for the city of Port Lyautey, today known as Kenitra, in French Morocco. The battle ended with its...
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    Guantanamo Bay Naval Base (Spanish: Base Naval de la Bahía de Guantánamo), officially known as Naval Station Guantanamo Bay or NSGB, (also called GTMO...
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  • airfields are designated as Naval Air Stations or Naval Air Facilities, with Naval Outlying Landing Fields (NOLF) and Naval Auxiliary Landing Fields (NALF)...
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    Naval Air Station Key West (IATA: NQX, ICAO: KNQX, FAA LID: NQX), is a naval air station and military airport located on Boca Chica Key, four miles (6 km)...
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    (now Coast Guard Air Station Elizabeth City) in North Carolina and flew a southern route to NAS Bermuda, the Azores, and Port Lyautey, where they arrived...
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    VP-21 (1943–1969) (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the Dictionary of American Naval Aviation Squadrons)
    operational control of FAW-7. 4 November 1943: VB-111 transferred to Naval Air Station Port Lyautey, French Morocco, under the operational control of FAW-15, to...
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    his pilots to quarters, and ordered the squadron ashore at Naval Air Station Port Lyautey. VA-86, USS Forrestal, January–March 1956 shakedown cruise VA-83...
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    The battalion's first two deployments were back to back to Naval Air Station Port Lyautey, Morocco. From October 1957 to August 1959, MCB 7 set a record...
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  • Exotiques De Bouknadel. Salé Rabat Casablanca Morocco U.S. Naval Air Station, Port Lyautey, Morocco C.Michael Hogan, Chellah, The Megalithic Portal, ed...
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    Savage's career, squadrons would typically deploy a detachment to Naval Air Station Port Lyautey, Morocco, for service with the Sixth Fleet and fly the bombers...
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    Airship (redirect from Air ship)
    flight and maintenance crews from Weeksville Naval Air Station in North Carolina to Naval Air Station Port Lyautey, French Morocco. Their mission was to locate...
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    port, Naval Air Facilities (1943-1947) Orote, Guam, Mariana Islands, Naval Air Station, (1945-1949) Naval Air Station Agana, Agana Guam, Naval Air Station...
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    their final destination at Port Lyautey (Kenitra), French Morocco. From their base with Fleet Air Wing 15 at Port Lyautey, the blimps of USN Blimp Squadron...
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    establishing an Air National Guard base on the site of the former naval air station. The current 177th Fighter Wing of the New Jersey Air National Guard...
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  • US Navy airships during World War II (category United States naval aviation)
    maintenance crews was moved from Weeksville Naval Air Station in North Carolina to Naval Air Station Port Lyautey, French Morocco. Their mission was to locate...
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    Airfield ( 145th CB) Atlantic: Naval Air Station Port Lyautey/Kenitra Air Base (120th CB) Naval Communication Station Sidi Yahya (120th CB) Military installations...
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    Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point or MCAS Cherry Point (*34°54′03″N 76°52′51″W / 34.9009°N 76.8807°W / 34.9009; -76.8807) (ICAO: KNKT, FAA LID:...
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    decommissioned) (Naval Air Reserve) VAK-308 based at Naval Air Station Alameda (now decommissioned) (Naval Air Reserve) VAP-61 based at Naval Air Station Agana Guam...
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    VPB-63 (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the Dictionary of American Naval Aviation Squadrons)
    MAD resources. VP-63 departed RAF Pembroke Dock en route to Naval Air Station Port Lyautey, French Morocco, for better hunting grounds in the Mediterranean...
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    Naval Air Station South Weymouth was an operational United States Navy airfield from 1942 to 1997 in South Weymouth, Massachusetts. It was first established...
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    the battalion would go to Puerto Rico; Guantanamo Bay, Cuba; Bermuda; Port Lyautey, French Morocco; Argentia, Newfoundland; and Rota, Spain. During the...
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    which combined Charleston Air Force Base with Naval Support Activity Charleston. A joint civil-military airport, Charleston Air Force Base today shares...
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    RAF Gibraltar (category Royal Air Force stations in Europe)
    shallow waters around Gibraltar. United States Navy Fleet Air Wing 15 based at Port Lyautey coordinated its antisubmarine warfare operations with RAF...
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  • VPB-112 (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the Dictionary of American Naval Aviation Squadrons)
    2 November. 5 November 1943: Orders were received to proceed to NAS Port Lyautey, French Morocco, via Morrison Field, Florida, Borinquen Field, Puerto...
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    who captured the Port Lyautey airdrome. In early May 1943, a two-phase "Naval Demolition Project" was directed by the Chief of Naval Operations "to meet...
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