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    Hamilton Field (Hamilton AFB) was a United States Air Force base, which was inactivated in 1973, decommissioned in 1974, and put into a caretaker status...
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    Mather Field was one of 32 Air Service training camps established after the United States entry into World War I in April 1917. The Mather AFB land has...
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    headquartered at Ent AFB ... One year later, the 15th Air Force relocated to March AFB California, and ... the Air Force portion of Peterson Field were placed...
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  • Hamilton Municipal Airport (ICAO: KMNZ, FAA LID: MNZ) is a city-owned public-use airport located two miles (3 km) south of the central business district...
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    9/Hurlburt Field when the U.S. Air Force became an independent service, before being administratively separated from the rest of the Eglin AFB complex in...
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    California, 7 December 1941 San Francisco, California, 5 January 1942 Hamilton Field (later, AFB), California, 19 June 1946 – 1 September 1960; 1 April 1966 –...
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    Histories 1947–1977. Maxwell AFB, Alabama: Office of Air Force History. ISBN 0912799129. Thole, Lou (1999), Forgotten Fields of America : World War II Bases...
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    Force unit, last assigned to the Air Defense Command, being stationed at Hamilton AFB, California. The squadron was inactivated on 8 February 1957. Air defense...
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    potential hostilities. The first mass flight of bombers (21 B-17Ds) from Hamilton Field, California arrived at Hickam on 14 May 1941. By December, the Hawaiian...
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    Point, from which it gained its name. It is located 4 miles north of Hamilton Field, a position that was chosen due to its close proximity to a major air...
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  • Radar Calibration Squadron, Hamilton Air Force Base, California (October 1951), 4th Radar Calibration Squadron, Hamilton AFB (February 1953), 4754th Radar...
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    aircraft from the 83d and 84th Fighter-Interceptor Squadrons from Hamilton Air Force Base (AFB) moved in as part of the Cuban Missile Crisis dispersal operation...
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    August 1943 Italy, 5 December 1943 – 31 August 1945 March Field, California, 17 May 1946 Brooks AFB, San Antonio, Texas, 1 January 1949 – 1 July 1950 Wiesbaden...
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    Training (BMT). Lackland AFB is part of Joint Base San Antonio (JBSA), an amalgamation of Fort Sam Houston, Randolph AFB and Lackland AFB, which were merged...
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    military/civil facility. The Air Force Reserve 349th Troop Carrier Group at Hamilton AFB, California began deploying C-46 Commando transports of several troop...
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    the base came under the Western Air Defense Force, headquartered at Hamilton AFB, California. The base was renamed Larson Air Force Base was named in...
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  • operations. For example, by 1965, "Hamilton AFB and Richards-Gebaur AFB…operated as Remote Combat Centers (Hamilton had remote input from Reno Sector and...
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    Machine, May 5, 1970 Scott Herhold, "Memorial Dedication Ceremony of Hamilton AFB Flight", San Jose Mercury News, March 21, 2012. Scott Herhold, "Herhold:...
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  • Assigned to Fourth Air Force as prewar Pursuit Wing, remained active at Hamilton Field, California until 1 December 1943. Constituted as 10th Pursuit Wing...
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    installation, Ellington AFB had routinely hosted several college level Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps (AFROTC) summer Field Training encampments...
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    nuclear tipped missiles to Kingsley Field at the start of the Cuban Missile Crisis. These planes returned to Hamilton after the crisis. Although the number...
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    interceptor corollary squadron of the 78th Fighter-Interceptor Wing at Hamilton AFB. it was brought to active duty in June 1951 as a result of the Korean...
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    Mile 26 Satellite Field and redesignated Eielson Air Force Base on 13 January 1948. It has been a Superfund site since 1989. Eielson AFB was named in honor...
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    moved without personnel or equipment to Truax Field, Wisconsin. The group also became the host for Hamilton AFB and was assigned a number of support organizations...
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    1951 – 1 July 1960 Hamilton AFB, California, 1 September 1949 – 1 July 1960 Los Angeles Air Defense Sector Stationed at Norton AFB, California Re-assigned...
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    reassigned from Hamilton AFB, California and flew the F-86 Sabre and F-89 Scorpion aircraft in a fighter-interceptor role. On 9 April 1955, Truax AFB became the...
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    planes returned home. It moved to McChord AFB in 1963, and to Paine Field in 1966. It moved to Hamilton AFB, California in 1968 and was inactivated the...
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    in June 1947, and stationed at Mitchell Field, New York. Prior to being equipped it was transferred to Hamilton Air Force Base, California, where it received...
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    Ellsworth Air Force Base (AFB) (IATA: RCA, ICAO: KRCA, FAA LID: RCA) is a United States Air Force (USAF) base located about 10 miles (16 km) northeast...
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    40 produced; first assigned to the 84th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron, Hamilton AFB, California in June 1951. All transferred to Air National Guard by the...
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