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436th Operations Group

Index 436th Operations Group

The 436th Operations Group is an active United States Air Force unit. [1]

65 relations: Air Force Reserve Command, Airborne forces, Alliance Municipal Airport, Allies of World War II, Ammunition, Beechcraft Model 18, Boeing C-17 Globemaster III, Combat, Continental Air Forces, Delaware, Douglas C-47 Skytrain, Dover Air Force Base, Eighteenth Air Force, Eleventh Air Force, Fairchild C-119 Flying Boxcar, Floyd Bennett Field, Fort Wayne Air National Guard Station, Godman Army Airfield, Indiana, Invasion of Normandy, Italy, Kentucky, Korean War, Laurinburg–Maxton Army Air Base, Lockheed C-5 Galaxy, Louisville International Airport, Malden Regional Airport, Melun Villaroche Aerodrome, Missouri, Nebraska, Netherlands, Ninth Air Force, Normandy landings, North Carolina, Operation Market Garden, Paratrooper, Presidential Unit Citation (United States), Prisoner of war, RAF Bottesford, RAF Membury, Reinforcement, Rhine, Southern France, United States Air Force, Victory in Europe Day, Wesel, World War II, 101st Airborne Division, 316th Troop Carrier Squadron, 31st Airlift Squadron, ..., 323d Air Division, 3d Airlift Squadron, 436th Airlift Wing, 436th Operations Support Squadron, 50th Troop Carrier Wing, 53d Fighter Wing, 60th Fighter Wing, 61st Fighter Wing, 69th Air Division, 73d Airlift Squadron, 79th Air Refueling Squadron, 80th Troop Carrier Squadron, 81st Troop Carrier Squadron, 82d Troop Carrier Squadron, 9th Airlift Squadron. Expand index (15 more) »

Air Force Reserve Command

The Air Force Reserve Command (AFRC) is a Major Command (MAJCOM) of the United States Air Force, with its headquarters at Robins Air Force Base, Georgia.

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Airborne forces

Airborne Military parachuting or gliding form of inserting personnel or supplies.

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Alliance Municipal Airport

Alliance Municipal Airport is in Box Butte County, Nebraska, three miles southeast of the city of Alliance, which owns it.

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Allies of World War II

The Allies of World War II, called the United Nations from the 1 January 1942 declaration, were the countries that together opposed the Axis powers during the Second World War (1939–1945).

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Ammunition

Ammunition (informally ammo) is the material fired, scattered, dropped or detonated from any weapon.

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Beechcraft Model 18

The Beechcraft Model 18 (or "Twin Beech", as it is also known) is a 6- to 11-seat, twin-engined, low-wing, tailwheel light aircraft manufactured by the Beech Aircraft Corporation of Wichita, Kansas.

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Boeing C-17 Globemaster III

The Boeing C-17 Globemaster III is a large military transport aircraft.

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Combat

Combat (French for fight) is a purposeful violent conflict meant to weaken, establish dominance over, or kill the opposition, or to drive the opposition away from a location where it is not wanted or needed.

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Continental Air Forces

Continental Air Forces (CAF) was a United States Army Air Forces major command at the end of World War II and during the early Cold War for combat training of bomber and fighter personnel and for Continental United States (CONUS) air defense after the Aircraft Warning Corps and Ground Observer Corps were placed in standby during 1944.

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Delaware

Delaware is one of the 50 states of the United States, in the Mid-Atlantic or Northeastern region.

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Douglas C-47 Skytrain

The Douglas C-47 Skytrain or Dakota (RAF designation) is a military transport aircraft developed from the civilian Douglas DC-3 airliner.

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Dover Air Force Base

Dover Air Force Base or Dover AFB is a United States Air Force base located southeast of the city of Dover, Delaware.

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Eighteenth Air Force

Eighteenth Air Force (Air Forces Transportation) (18 AF) is the only Numbered Air Force (NAF) in Air Mobility Command (AMC) and one of the largest NAFs in the United States Air Force. 18 AF was activated on 28 March 1951, inactivated on 1 January 1958, and re-activated on 1 October 2003. 18 AF is headquartered at Scott Air Force Base, Illinois.

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Eleventh Air Force

The Eleventh Air Force (11 AF) is a Numbered Air Force of the United States Air Force Pacific Air Forces (PACAF).

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Fairchild C-119 Flying Boxcar

The Fairchild C-119 Flying Boxcar (Navy and Marine Corps designation R4Q) is an American military transport aircraft developed from the World War II-era Fairchild C-82 Packet, designed to carry cargo, personnel, litter patients, and mechanized equipment, and to drop cargo and troops by parachute.

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Floyd Bennett Field

Floyd Bennett Field is an airfield in the Marine Park neighorhood of southeast Brooklyn in New York City, along the shore of Jamaica Bay.

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Fort Wayne Air National Guard Station

Fort Wayne Air National Guard Station is a United States Air Force base, located at Fort Wayne International Airport, Indiana.

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Godman Army Airfield

Godman Army Airfield is a military airport located on the Fort Knox United States Army post in Hardin County, Kentucky, United States.

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Indiana

Indiana is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern and Great Lakes regions of North America.

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Invasion of Normandy

The Western Allies of World War II launched the largest amphibious invasion in history when they assaulted Normandy, located on the northern coast of France, on 6 June 1944.

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Italy

Italy (Italia), officially the Italian Republic (Repubblica Italiana), is a sovereign state in Europe.

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Kentucky

Kentucky, officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a state located in the east south-central region of the United States.

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Korean War

The Korean War (in South Korean, "Korean War"; in North Korean, "Fatherland: Liberation War"; 25 June 1950 – 27 July 1953) was a war between North Korea (with the support of China and the Soviet Union) and South Korea (with the principal support of the United States).

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Laurinburg–Maxton Army Air Base

Laurinburg–Maxton Army Air Base is an inactive United States Air Force base, approximately 6 miles east-northeast of Laurinburg, North Carolina.

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Lockheed C-5 Galaxy

The Lockheed C-5 Galaxy is a large military transport aircraft originally designed and built by Lockheed, and now maintained and upgraded by its successor, Lockheed Martin.

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Louisville International Airport

Louisville International Airport is a public and military use public airport centrally located in the city of Louisville in Jefferson County, Kentucky, United States.

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Malden Regional Airport

Malden Regional Airport is a city owned, public use airport located three nautical miles (6 km) north of the central business district of Malden, a city in Dunklin County, Missouri, United States.

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Melun Villaroche Aerodrome

Melun Villaroche Aerodrome (Aérodrome de Melun Villaroche) is an aerodrome located north of Melun, a commune in the Seine-et-Marne department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France.

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Missouri

Missouri is a state in the Midwestern United States.

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Nebraska

Nebraska is a state that lies in both the Great Plains and the Midwestern United States.

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Netherlands

The Netherlands (Nederland), often referred to as Holland, is a country located mostly in Western Europe with a population of seventeen million.

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Ninth Air Force

The Ninth Air Force (9 AF) is a numbered air force of the United States Air Force's Air Combat Command (ACC).

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Normandy landings

The Normandy landings were the landing operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II.

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North Carolina

North Carolina is a U.S. state in the southeastern region of the United States.

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Operation Market Garden

Operation Market Garden (17–25 September 1944) was an unsuccessful Allied military operation planned, and predominantly led, by the British.

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Paratrooper

Paratroopers are military parachutists—military personnel trained in parachuting into an operation and usually functioning as part of an airborne force.

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Presidential Unit Citation (United States)

The Presidential Unit Citation (PUC), originally called the Distinguished Unit Citation, is awarded to units of the Uniformed services of the United States, and those of allied countries, for extraordinary heroism in action against an armed enemy on or after 7 December 1941 (the date of the Attack on Pearl Harbor and the start of American involvement in World War II).

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Prisoner of war

A prisoner of war (POW) is a person, whether combatant or non-combatant, who is held in custody by a belligerent power during or immediately after an armed conflict.

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RAF Bottesford

Royal Air Force Bottesford or more simply RAF Bottesford is a former Royal Air Force station located on the Leicestershire-Lincolnshire county border, north west of Grantham, Lincolnshire and south of Newark-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire and about north-northwest of London, England.

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RAF Membury

Royal Air Force Membury or more simply RAF Membury is a former Royal Air Force station built in the civil parish of Lambourn in Berkshire, England.

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Reinforcement

In behavioral psychology, reinforcement is a consequence that will strengthen an organism's future behavior whenever that behavior is preceded by a specific antecedent stimulus.

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Rhine

--> The Rhine (Rhenus, Rein, Rhein, le Rhin,, Italiano: Reno, Rijn) is a European river that begins in the Swiss canton of Graubünden in the southeastern Swiss Alps, forms part of the Swiss-Liechtenstein, Swiss-Austrian, Swiss-German and then the Franco-German border, then flows through the German Rhineland and the Netherlands and eventually empties into the North Sea.

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Southern France

Southern France or the South of France, colloquially known as le Midi, is a defined geographical area consisting of the regions of France that border the Atlantic Ocean south of the Marais Poitevin, Spain, the Mediterranean, and Italy.

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United States Air Force

The United States Air Force (USAF) is the aerial and space warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces.

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Victory in Europe Day

Victory in Europe Day, generally known as V-E Day, VE Day or simply V Day, celebrated on May 8, 1945 to mark the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces.

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Wesel

Wesel is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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101st Airborne Division

The 101st Airborne Division ("Screaming Eagles") is an elite modular specialized light infantry division of the US Army.

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316th Troop Carrier Squadron

The 316th Troop Carrier Squadron is an inactive unit of the United States Air Force.

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31st Airlift Squadron

The 31st Airlift Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit.

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323d Air Division

The 323d Air Division is an inactive United States Air Force unit.

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3d Airlift Squadron

The 3rd Airlift Squadron is a squadron of the 436th Airlift Wing of the USAF.

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436th Airlift Wing

The 436th Airlift Wing (436 AW) is an active United States Air Force unit.

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436th Operations Support Squadron

The 436th Operation support squadron (436th OSS) is an active United States Air Force squadron.

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50th Troop Carrier Wing

The 50th Air Division is an inactive United States Air Force unit.

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53d Fighter Wing

The 53d Fighter Wing (53 FW) is a disbanded unit of the United States Air Force, last stationed at Philadelphia International Airport, Pennsylvania.

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60th Fighter Wing

The 60th Fighter Wing (60 FW) is a disbanded unit of the United States Air Force, last stationed at Felts Field, Spokane, Washington.

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61st Fighter Wing

The 61st Fighter Wing (61 FW) is a disbanded unit of the United States Air Force, last stationed at Hayward Municipal Airport, Hayward, California.

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69th Air Division

The 69th Air Division is an inactive United States Air Force organization.

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73d Airlift Squadron

The 73d Airlift Squadron is a United States Air Force Reserve squadron, assigned to the 932d Operations Group, stationed at Scott Air Force Base, Illinois.

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79th Air Refueling Squadron

The 79th Air Refueling Squadron is a United States Air Force Reserve squadron, assigned to the 349th Operations Group, stationed at Travis Air Force Base, California.

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80th Troop Carrier Squadron

The 80th Troop Carrier Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit.

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81st Troop Carrier Squadron

The 81st Troop Carrier Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit.

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82d Troop Carrier Squadron

The 82d Troop Carrier Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit.

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9th Airlift Squadron

The 9th Airlift Squadron is a unit of the United States Air Force based at Dover Air Force Base, Delaware and flying the C-5M Super Galaxy.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/436th_Operations_Group

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