67 relations: Advanced Landing Ground, Aerospace Defense Command, Air Combat Command, Air Mobility Command, Air National Guard, Army National Guard, Base Realignment and Closure, Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker, Boeing KC-97 Stratofreighter, Bordeaux–Mérignac Airport, Brest, France, Caen, Cherbourg-Octeville, Cotentin Peninsula, Douglas A-26 Invader, Falaise Pocket, Florennes Air Base, Howard Air Force Base, Hunter Army Airfield, III Air Support Command, Illinois, Illinois Air National Guard, Korean War, Lakeland Linder Regional Airport, Langley Air Force Base, List of Martin B-26 Marauder operators, London Stansted Airport, MacDill Air Force Base, Martin B-26 Marauder, National Guard Bureau, Ninth Air Force, Normandy landings, North American F-86D Sabre, North American P-51 Mustang, O'Hare International Airport, Operation Overlord, Pontoise – Cormeilles Aerodrome, Presidential Unit Citation (United States), Quartier Mangin, Republic F-84F Thunderstreak, Saint-Lô, Schleissheim Palace, Scott Air Force Base, Seventeenth Expeditionary Air Force, Strategic Air Command, Tactical Air Command, Twelfth Air Force, United States Air Force, United States Air Forces in Europe - Air Forces Africa, United States Army Air Forces, ..., Victory in Europe Day, Virginia, World War I, World War II, XII Tactical Air Command, 108th Air Refueling Squadron, 15th Expeditionary Mobility Task Force, 168th Air Refueling Squadron, 169th Airlift Squadron, 180th Airlift Squadron, 44th Air Division, 494th Bombardment Squadron, 495th Bombardment Squadron, 496th Bombardment Squadron, 497th Bombardment Squadron, 66th Fighter Wing, 906th Air Refueling Squadron. Expand index (17 more) »
Advanced Landing Ground
Advanced Landing Grounds (ALGs) were temporary advance airfields constructed by the Allies during World War II during the liberation of Europe.
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Aerospace Defense Command
Aerospace Defense Command was a major command of the United States Air Forces, responsible for continental air defence.
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Air Combat Command
Air Combat Command (ACC) is one of ten Major Commands (MAJCOMs) in the United States Air Force, reporting to Headquarters, United States Air Force (HAF) at the Pentagon.
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Air Mobility Command
Air Mobility Command (AMC) is a Major Command (MAJCOM) of the U.S. Air Force.
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Air National Guard
The Air National Guard (ANG), also known as the Air Guard, is a federal military reserve force as well as the militia air force of each U.S. state, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and the territories of Guam and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
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Army National Guard
The Army National Guard (ARNG), in conjunction with the Air National Guard, is a militia force and a federal military reserve force of the United States.
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Base Realignment and Closure
Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) is a process by a United States federal government commission to increase United States Department of Defense efficiency by planning the end of the Cold War realignment and closure of military installations.
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Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker
The Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker is a military aerial refueling aircraft.
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Boeing KC-97 Stratofreighter
The Boeing KC-97 Stratofreighter is a United States strategic tanker aircraft based on the Boeing C-97 Stratofreighter.
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Bordeaux–Mérignac Airport
Bordeaux–Mérignac Airport (Aéroport de Bordeaux-Mérignac) is the international airport of Bordeaux, in south-western France.
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Brest, France
Brest is a city in the Finistère département in Brittany.
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Caen
Caen (Norman: Kaem) is a commune in northwestern France.
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Cherbourg-Octeville
Cherbourg-Octeville is a city and former commune situated at the northern end of the Cotentin peninsula in the northwestern French department of Manche.
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Cotentin Peninsula
The Cotentin Peninsula, also known as the Cherbourg Peninsula, is a peninsula in Normandy that forms part of the northwest coast of France.
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Douglas A-26 Invader
The Douglas A-26 Invader (designated B-26 between 1948 and 1965) is an American twin-engined light bomber and ground attack aircraft.
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Falaise Pocket
The Falaise Pocket or Battle of the Falaise Pocket (12 – 21 August 1944) was the decisive engagement of the Battle of Normandy in the Second World War.
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Florennes Air Base
Florennes Air Base is a Belgian Air Component military airfield located east southeast of Florennes, a Walloon municipality of Belgium.
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Howard Air Force Base
Howard Air Force Base,, is a former United States Air Force base located in Panama.
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Hunter Army Airfield
Hunter Army Airfield, located in Savannah, Georgia, United States, is a military airfield and subordinate installation to Fort Stewart located in Hinesville, Georgia.
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III Air Support Command
The III Air Support Command was a United States Army Air Force formation.
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Illinois
Illinois is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States.
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Illinois Air National Guard
The Illinois Air National Guard (IL ANG) is the air force militia of the State of Illinois, United States of America.
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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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Lakeland Linder Regional Airport
Lakeland Linder Regional Airport is a public airport five miles southwest of Lakeland, in Polk County, Florida.
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Langley Air Force Base
Langley Air Force Base is a United States Air Force base located adjacent to Hampton and Newport News, Virginia.
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List of Martin B-26 Marauder operators
This is a list of Martin B-26 Marauder operators.
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London Stansted Airport
London Stansted Airport is an international airport located at Stansted Mountfitchet in the district of Uttlesford in Essex, northeast of Central London and from the Hertfordshire border.
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MacDill Air Force Base
MacDill Air Force Base (MacDill AFB) is an active United States Air Force installation located 4 miles (6.4 km) south-southwest of downtown Tampa, Florida.
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Martin B-26 Marauder
The Martin B-26 Marauder was an American World War II twin-engined medium bomber built by the Glenn L. Martin Company in Middle River, Maryland (just east of Baltimore) from 1941 to 1945.
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National Guard Bureau
The National Guard Bureau is the federal instrument responsible for the administration of the United States National Guard established by the United States Congress as a joint bureau of the Department of the Army and the Department of the Air Force.
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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 American F-86D Sabre
The North American F-86D Sabre (sometimes called the "Sabre Dog" or "Dog Sabre") was a transonic jet all-weather interceptor of the United States Air Force and others.
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North American P-51 Mustang
The North American Aviation P-51 Mustang is an American long-range, single-seat fighter and fighter-bomber used during World War II and the Korean War, among other conflicts.
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O'Hare International Airport
O'Hare International Airport, usually referred to as O'Hare Airport, Chicago O'Hare, or simply O'Hare, is an international airport located on the far Northwest Side of Chicago, Illinois, northwest of the Loop business district, operated by the Chicago Department of Aviation and covering.
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Operation Overlord
Operation Overlord was the codename for the Battle of Normandy, the Allied operation that launched the successful invasion of German-occupied Western Europe during World War II.
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Pontoise – Cormeilles Aerodrome
Pontoise Aerodrome or Pontoise – Cormeilles Aerodrome (Aérodrome de Pontoise - Cormeilles) is an airport located northwest of Pontoise in Boissy l'Aillerie near Cormeilles-en-Vexin, all communes of the Val-d'Oise department in the Île-de-France region in northern France.
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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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Quartier Mangin
Laon-Couvron Air Base is a former French and United States Air Force base in France.
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Republic F-84F Thunderstreak
The Republic F-84F Thunderstreak was an American-built swept-wing turbojet fighter-bomber.
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Saint-Lô
Saint-Lô is a commune in north-western France, the capital of the Manche department in the region of Normandy.
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Schleissheim Palace
The Schleissheim Palace (Schloss Schleißheim) comprises three individual palaces in a grand baroque park in the village of Oberschleißheim, a suburb of Munich, Bavaria, Germany.
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Scott Air Force Base
Scott Air Force Base is a United States Air Force base in St. Clair County, Illinois, near Belleville and O'Fallon, 25 miles East of downtown St. Louis.
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Seventeenth Expeditionary Air Force
Seventeenth Expeditionary Air Force (17 EAF) is a numbered air force of the United States Air Force located at Ramstein Air Base, Germany.
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Strategic Air Command
Strategic Air Command (SAC) was both a Department of Defense Specified Command and a United States Air Force (USAF) Major Command (MAJCOM), responsible for Cold War command and control of two of the three components of the U.S. military's strategic nuclear strike forces, the so-called "nuclear triad," with SAC having control of land-based strategic bomber aircraft and intercontinental ballistic missiles or ICBMs (the third leg of the triad being submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBM) of the U.S. Navy).
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Tactical Air Command
Tactical Air Command (TAC) is an inactive United States Air Force organization.
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Twelfth Air Force
The Twelfth Air Force (12 AF; Air Forces Southern, (AFSOUTH)) is a Numbered Air Force of the United States Air Force Air Combat Command (ACC).
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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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United States Air Forces in Europe - Air Forces Africa
The United States Air Forces in Europe – Air Forces Africa (USAFE-AFAFRICA) is a United States Air Force major command (MAJCOM) and a component command of both United States European Command (USEUCOM) and United States Africa Command (USAFRICOM). As part of its mission, USAFE-AFAFRICA commands U.S. Air Force units pledged to NATO, maintaining combat-ready wings based from Great Britain to Turkey. USAFE-AFAFRICA plans, conducts, controls, coordinates and supports air and space operations in Europe, parts of Asia and all of Africa with the exception of Egypt to achieve U.S. national and NATO objectives based on taskings by the two combatant commanders. USAFE-AFAFRICA is headquartered at Ramstein Air Base, Germany. It is the oldest continuously active USAF major command, originally activated on 1 February 1942 at Langley Field, Virginia, as the Eighth Air Force of the United States Army Air Forces. Two years later, it was designated as United States Strategic Air Forces in Europe (USSTAF) and on 7 August 1945 it was designated as United States Air Forces in Europe (USAFE). On 20 April 2012 United States Air Forces in Europe formally became the U.S. Air Forces in Europe – Air Forces Africa when the 17th Air Force inactivated. The command has more than 35,000 active duty personnel, Air Reserve Component personnel, and civilian employees assigned.
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United States Army Air Forces
The United States Army Air Forces (USAAF or AAF), informally known as the Air Force, was the aerial warfare service of the United States of America during and immediately after World War II (1939/41–1945), successor to the previous United States Army Air Corps and the direct predecessor of the United States Air Force of today, one of the five uniformed military services.
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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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Virginia
Virginia (officially the Commonwealth of Virginia) is a state in the Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States located between the Atlantic Coast and the Appalachian Mountains.
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World War I
World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.
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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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XII Tactical Air Command
The XII Tactical Air Command is an inactive United States Air Force unit.
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108th Air Refueling Squadron
The 108th Air Refueling Squadron (108 ARS) is a unit of the Illinois Air National Guard 126th Air Refueling Wing located at Scott Air Force Base, Belleville, Illinois.
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15th Expeditionary Mobility Task Force
The Fifteenth Expeditionary Mobility Task Force (15 ETF) was one of two ETFs assigned to the United States Air Force Air Mobility Command (AMC) and was headquartered at Travis Air Force Base, California.
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168th Air Refueling Squadron
The 168th Air Refueling Squadron is a unit of the Alaska Air National Guard 168th Air Refueling Wing located at Eielson Air Force Base, Fairbanks, Alaska.
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169th Airlift Squadron
The 169th Airlift Squadron (169 AS) is a unit of the Illinois Air National Guard 182d Airlift Wing located at Peoria Air National Guard Base, Peoria, Illinois.
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180th Airlift Squadron
The 180th Airlift Squadron (180 AS) is a unit of the Missouri Air National Guard 139th Airlift Wing located at Rosecrans Air National Guard Base, St.
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44th Air Division
The 44th Air Division, Bombardment was redesignated as a division on 16 April 1948, when it was at Brooks Field (later, Brooks Air Force Base), Texas, under the 14th Air Force, then transferred to the 12th Air Force on 1 July 1948.
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494th Bombardment Squadron
The 494th Bombardment Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit.
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495th Bombardment Squadron
The 495th Bombardment Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit.
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496th Bombardment Squadron
The 496th Bombardment Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit.
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497th Bombardment Squadron
The 497th Bombardment Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit.
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66th Fighter Wing
The 66th Fighter Wing is a disbanded unit of the United States Air Force, last stationed at Chicago Municipal Airport, Illinois.
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906th Air Refueling Squadron
The 906th Air Refueling Squadron is an active United States Air Force unit.
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Redirects here:
126 ARW, 126th Air Defense Wing, 126th Air Refueling Group, 126th Bombardment Group, 126th Bombardment Wing, 126th Composite Group, 126th Composite Wing, 126th Fighter Bomber Group, 126th Fighter Interceptor Group, 126th Fighter-Bomber Group, 126th Fighter-Bomber Wing, 126th Fighter-Interceptor Group, 126th Fighter-Interceptor Wing, 344th Bombardment Group.
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/126th_Air_Refueling_Wing