Air Force Bases

Author : Robert Mueller
Publisher : Air Force
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Air Force Bases: Active Air Force bases within the United States of America on 17 September 1982 written by Robert Mueller and published by Air Force. This book was released on 1989 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jack Stokes Ballard
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439643105
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lowry Air Force Base written by Jack Stokes Ballard and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2013-04-01 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1937 to 1994, Lowry Air Force Base, located on the eastern edge of the city of Denver, served the nation and the surrounding community in many distinguished ways. The air base, primarily a technical training center, graduated more than 1.1 million enlisted members and officers in skills ranging from armament to photography, tremendously strengthening the country’s war efforts in World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and the Cold War. In addition, from the 1980s, Lowry Air Force Base remained one of Colorado’s largest employers, with approximately 10,000 military and civilian men and women, providing an economic impact approaching $1 billion annually. Thus Lowry significantly contributed to maintaining the world’s largest air force and to promoting the accelerated growth of the Denver metro area and Colorado.

Author : Robert Mueller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Air Force Bases: Air bases outside the United States of America written by Robert Mueller and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Shannon Caudill
Publisher : Military Bookshop
ISBN 13 : 9781782666851
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Defending Air Bases in an Age of Insurgency written by Shannon Caudill and published by Military Bookshop. This book was released on 2014-08 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology discusses the converging operational issues of air base defense and counterinsurgency. It explores the diverse challenges associated with defending air assets and joint personnel in a counterinsurgency environment. The authors are primarily Air Force officers from security forces, intelligence, and the office of special investigations, but works are included from a US Air Force pilot and a Canadian air force officer. The authors examine lessons from Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, and other conflicts as they relate to securing air bases and sustaining air operations in a high-threat counterinsurgency environment. The essays review the capabilities, doctrine, tactics, and training needed in base defense operations and recommend ways in which to build a strong, synchronized ground defense partnership with joint and combined forces. The authors offer recommendations on the development of combat leaders with the depth of knowledge, tactical and operational skill sets, and counterinsurgency mind set necessary to be effective in the modern asymmetric battlefield.

Author : Lt. Col. George A. Larson, USAF (Ret.)
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467106437
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hill Air Force Base written by Lt. Col. George A. Larson, USAF (Ret.) and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2021 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hill Air Force Base is located 30 miles north of Salt Lake City, Utah. It was named in honor of Maj. Ployer Peter Hill, who was killed in a crash of a Boeing B-17 at Wright Field. In World War II, the base became a maintenance, supply, and temporary surplus aircraft storage depot. Hill supported US forces in the Korean and Vietnam conflicts. It also became a maintenance and support facility for the Air Force's turbojet aircraft and missiles during the Cold War. One of the base's important missions is support for the Utah Test and Training Range. Currently, Hill Air Force Base has 78 F-35s assigned to the 388th and 419th Fighter Wings.

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Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1428993169
Total Pages : 651 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Air Force bases. written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 651 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Office of Office of Air Force History
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781507731673
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Air Force Bases written by Office of Office of Air Force History and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-01-27 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is the second in a series on active Air Force bases and a continuation of a recent line of works prepared for the Center for Air Force History under the Reference Series. These reference books contain specific information about a number of topics of interest to the United States Air Force and other arms of the Department of Defense. They are designed to present fundamental data about such diverse subjects as Air Force aircraft, combat action, unit lineage and honors, campaign medals and streamers, and air bases, for those who will write more extensive narrative accounts about Air Force activities and operations. Volume II in the Air Force Bases series provides important background information about overseas installations that are less well known than domestic stations. The active installations included in this volume, to be sure, represent only a fraction of the overseas bases, fields, and stations operated by the United States Air Force and its predecessor organizations since the beginning of World War II. Nevertheless, many of the most significant and enduring air bases appear in these pages, some of which are essential to America's defense posture. This work represents a starting point for military students and staff officers involved in defense research or planning, and for scholars interested in serious research of air bases and the Air Force organizations that operated from them.

Author : Robert Mueller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 660 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Air Force Bases written by Robert Mueller and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Bojan Dimitrijevic
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781913118679
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tito's Underground Air Base written by Bojan Dimitrijevic and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-19 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The air force of Tito's Yugoslavia has had many different peculiarities - from a unique Cold War position of having operated a mix of US, Soviet, and indigenous aircraft and equipment, to the changeable strategies in case of war.One such feature was an entire underground air base constructed inside a hill near the town of Bihac, in western Bosnia. 'The Object' was the core, the heart, of this air base: it housed four MiG-21 squadrons for nearly 25 years, until the civil war tore Yugoslavia apart.'The Object' was built as the outcome of Yugoslav military efforts to build up its independent defence capabilities, especially the air force which was regarded as the strategic tool in keeping Tito's Yugoslavia's independence from both Cold War blocks. There were a few other underground shelters built at Yugoslavia's air bases, but Bihać underground air base remained the only underground facility which was permanently used.Bihać Air Base was constructed directly on the border between two former federal states of Yugoslavia, now two independent countries: The Republic of Croatia, and The Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Indeed, their post-independence border runs between the former taxiways and underground entrances. Nowadays, its ruins are a place of pilgrimage by many aviation and military enthusiasts, and is known as 'Zeljava', after a nearby village on the Croatian side.In its five chapters this book provides an in-depth account of the design and construction of the air base and its 'underground object', and a detailed account of the activities of its MiG-21 squadrons and everyday operations in the period between 1968 and 1991. The book concludes with an exhaustive description of combat operations during the final year of the existence of the Bihać Air Base in 1991-1992, under the conditions of the civil war.Drawing upon exclusive archival sources - many of them classified until very recently - the authors have expanded the emerging story through interviews with dozens of officers and other ranks that served at this 'underground aircraft carrier', thus managing to fill the gaps in usage not covered by the documentation.'Tito's Underground Air Base' is lavishly illustrated with a huge collection of exclusive photographs collected from numerous archives, museums, and private collections, and a set of authentic colour profiles and diagrams. It is a unique source of reference about one of most fascinating projects related to underground military facilities constructed during the Cold War.

Author : Steve A. Larsen
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439636923
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book McConnell Air Force Base written by Steve A. Larsen and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2008-12-08 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning from its earliest days as an empty parcel of pasture that became a major hub airport for transcontinental air travel to its present use as the busiest refueling operation in the U.S. Air Force, the slice of land known as McConnell Air Force Base is inextricably connected to aviation to nearly the dawn of manned flight. Its military history began in 1941 with the arrival of the Air National Guard, and the base grew to a multifaceted operation that extends air power globally through intelligence and air refueling missions performed by its three partner units: the 22nd Air Refueling Wing, the 184th Intelligence Wing, and the 931st Air Refueling Group. This book offers a glimpse into the military history of McConnell Air Force Base through many rarely seen or previously unpublished images drawn primarily from the repository of the 22nd Air Refueling Wing Office of History and the Kansas Aviation Museum.