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74 relations: Aerospace Defense Command, Air Education and Training Command, Air Force District of Washington, Air Force Global Strike Command, Air Materiel Command, Air Transport Command, Air University (United States Air Force), Aircraft Warning Corps, American Theater (World War II), Andrews Air Force Base, Army Air Forces Training Command, Army Ground Forces, Attack on Pearl Harbor, Bergstrom Air Force Base, Blytheville Air Force Base, Bolling Air Force Base, Brooks Air Force Base, Carl Spaatz, Cold War, Contiguous United States, Distant Early Warning Line, Dover Air Force Base, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Dyess Air Force Base, Edwards Air Force Base, Eighth Air Force, Electronic Systems Center, First Air Force, Fourth Air Force, Ground Observer Corps, Holloman Air Force Base, Kirtland Air Force Base, Lashup Radar Network, List of United States Air Force aircraft control and warning squadrons, Lowry Air Force Base, March Air Reserve Base, McChord Field, Mitchel Air Force Base, Myrtle Beach Air Force Base, Pope Field, Radar Bomb Scoring, Richards-Gebaur Memorial Airport, Second Air Force, Semi-Automatic Ground Environment, Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, Shaw Air Force Base, Strategic Air Command, Tactical Air Command, Technical Division, Air Training Command, Third Air Force, ..., To be announced, Tyndall Air Force Base, United States Army Air Forces, United States general surveillance radar stations, V-2 rocket, Western Technical Training Command, Whiteman Air Force Base, William F. McKee, William Hood Simpson, World War II, 15th Expeditionary Mobility Task Force, 1st Combat Evaluation Group, 3903rd Radar Bomb Scoring Group, 40th Air Expeditionary Wing, 444th Air Expeditionary Wing, 448th Supply Chain Management Group, 449th Air Expeditionary Group, 44th Fighter Group, 467th Bombardment Group, 485th Air Expeditionary Wing, 498th Nuclear Systems Wing, 58th Air Division, 73d Air Division, 93d Operations Group. Expand index (24 more) »
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 Education and Training Command
Air Education and Training Command (AETC) was established 1 July 1993, with the realignment of Air Training Command and Air University.
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Air Force District of Washington
The Air Force District of Washington (AFDW) is a Direct Reporting Unit of the United States Air Force.
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Air Force Global Strike Command
Air Force Global Strike Command (AFGSC) is a Major Command (MAJCOM) of the United States Air Force, headquartered at Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana.
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Air Materiel Command
Air Materiel Command (AMC) was a United States Army Air Forces and United States Air Force command.
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Air Transport Command
Air Transport Command (ATC) was a United States Air Force unit that was created during World War II as the strategic airlift component of the United States Army Air Forces.
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Air University (United States Air Force)
The Air University (AU), headquartered at Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama, is a key component of the Air Education and Training Command (AETC), and is the U.S. Air Force's center for professional military education (PME).
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Aircraft Warning Corps
The Aircraft Warning Corps (AWC) was a World War II United States Army Air Force organization for Continental United States air defense.
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American Theater (World War II)
The American Theater describes a series of mostly minor areas of operations during World War II.
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Andrews Air Force Base
Andrews Air Force Base is the airfield portion of Joint Base Andrews which is under the jurisdiction of the United States Air Force.
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Army Air Forces Training Command
The US Army Air Forces in WWII had major subordinate Commands below the Air Staff level.
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Army Ground Forces
The Army Ground Forces were one of the three autonomous components of the Army of the United States during World War II, the others being the Army Air Forces and Army Service Forces.
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Attack on Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory, on the morning of December 7, 1941.
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Bergstrom Air Force Base
Bergstrom Air Force Base (1942–1993) was located seven miles southeast of Austin, Texas.
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Blytheville Air Force Base
Blytheville Air Force Base was a United States Air Force base from 1942 until it closed in 1992.
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Bolling Air Force Base
Bolling Air Force Base is a United States Air Force base in Washington, D.C. In 2010 it was merged with Naval Support Facility Anacostia to form Joint Base Anacostia–Bolling.
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Brooks Air Force Base
Brooks Air Force Base was a United States Air Force facility, located in San Antonio, Texas.
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Carl Spaatz
Carl Andrew Spaatz (born Spatz; June 28, 1891 – July 14, 1974), nicknamed "Tooey", was an American World War II general.
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Cold War
The Cold War was a state of geopolitical tension after World War II between powers in the Eastern Bloc (the Soviet Union and its satellite states) and powers in the Western Bloc (the United States, its NATO allies and others).
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Contiguous United States
The contiguous United States or officially the conterminous United States consists of the 48 adjoining U.S. states plus Washington, D.C. on the continent of North America.
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Distant Early Warning Line
The Distant Early Warning Line, also known as the DEW Line or Early Warning Line, was a system of radar stations in the far northern Arctic region of Canada, with additional stations along the North Coast and Aleutian Islands of Alaska, in addition to the Faroe Islands, Greenland, and Iceland.
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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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Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower (October 14, 1890 – March 28, 1969) was an American army general and statesman who served as the 34th President of the United States from 1953 to 1961.
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Dyess Air Force Base
Dyess Air Force Base (AFB) is a United States Air Force base located approximately southwest of Abilene, Texas.
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Edwards Air Force Base
Edwards Air Force Base (AFB) is a United States Air Force installation located in Kern County in southern California, about northeast of Lancaster and east of Rosamond.
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Eighth Air Force
The Eighth Air Force (Air Forces Strategic) (8 AF) is a numbered air force (NAF) of the United States Air Force's Air Force Global Strike Command (AFGSC).
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Electronic Systems Center
Electronic Systems Center was a product center of Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC) headquartered at Hanscom Air Force Base, Massachusetts.
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First Air Force
The First Air Force (Air Forces Northern; 1 AF-AFNORTH) is a numbered air force of the United States Air Force Air Combat Command (ACC).
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Fourth Air Force
The Fourth Air Force (4 AF) is a numbered air force of the Air Force Reserve Command (AFRC).
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Ground Observer Corps
The Ground Observer Corps (GOC), sometimes erroneously referred to as the Ground Observation Corps, was the name of two American civil defense organizations during the middle 20th century.
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Holloman Air Force Base
Holloman Air Force Base is a United States Air Force base located six miles (10 km) southwest of the central business district of Alamogordo, and a census-designated place in Otero County, New Mexico, United States.
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Kirtland Air Force Base
Kirtland Air Force Base is a United States Air Force base located in the southeast quadrant of the Albuquerque, New Mexico urban area, adjacent to the Albuquerque International Sunport.
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Lashup Radar Network
The Lashup Radar Network was a United States Cold War radar netting system for air defense surveillance which followed the post-World War II "five-station radar net" and preceded the "high Priority Permanent System".
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List of United States Air Force aircraft control and warning squadrons
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Lowry Air Force Base
Lowry Air Force Base (Lowry Field 1938-1948) is a former United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) training base during World War II and a United States Air Force (USAF) training base during the Cold War, serving as the initial 1955-1958 site of the U.S. Air Force Academy.
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March Air Reserve Base
March Air Reserve Base (March ARB), previously known as March Air Force Base (March AFB) is located in Riverside County, California between the cities of Riverside, Moreno Valley, and Perris.
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McChord Field
McChord Field is a United States Air Force base in the northwest United States, in Pierce County, Washington.
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Mitchel Air Force Base
Mitchel Air Force Base also known as Mitchel Field, was a United States Air Force base located on the Hempstead Plains of Long Island, New York, United States.
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Myrtle Beach Air Force Base
Myrtle Beach Air Force Base was a United States Air Force base located near Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
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Pope Field
Pope Field is a U.S. military facility located 12 miles (19 km) northwest of the central business district of Fayetteville, in Cumberland County, North Carolina, United States.
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Radar Bomb Scoring
Radar Bomb Scoring is a combat aviation ground support operation used to evaluate Cold War aircrews' effectiveness with simulated unguided bomb drops near radar stations of the United States Navy, the USAF Strategic Air Command, and Army Project Nike units.
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Richards-Gebaur Memorial Airport
Richards-Gebaur Memorial Airport is a former airport that operated alongside Richards-Gebaur Air Reserve Station until the base's closure in 1994, and until it was closed in 1999.
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Second Air Force
The Second Air Force (2 AF; 2d Air Force in 1942) is a USAF numbered air force responsible for conducting basic military and technical training for Air Force enlisted members and non-flying officers.
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Semi-Automatic Ground Environment
The Semi-Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE, a name selected to mean "wise") was a system of large computers and associated networking equipment that coordinated data from many radar sites and processed it to produce a single unified image of the airspace over a wide area.
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Seymour Johnson Air Force Base
Seymour Johnson Air Force Base is a United States Air Force base located in Goldsboro, North Carolina.
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Shaw Air Force Base
Shaw Air Force Base (Shaw AFB) is a United States Air Force base located approximately west-northwest of downtown Sumter, South Carolina.
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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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Technical Division, Air Training Command
Technical Division, Air Training Command is an inactive United States Air Force unit.
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Third Air Force
The Third Air Force (Air Forces Europe) (3 AF) is a numbered air force of the United States Air Forces in Europe - Air Forces Africa (USAFE-AFAFRICA).
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To be announced
To be announced (TBA), to be confirmed (TBC), and to be determined (or to be decided) (TBD) are placeholder terms used very broadly in event planning to indicate that although something is scheduled or expected to happen, a particular aspect of that remains to be arranged or confirmed.
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Tyndall Air Force Base
Tyndall Air Force Base is a United States Air Force Base located east of Panama City, Florida.
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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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United States general surveillance radar stations
United States general surveillance radar stations include Army and USAF stations of various US air defense networks (in reverse chronological order).
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V-2 rocket
The V-2 (Vergeltungswaffe 2, "Retribution Weapon 2"), technical name Aggregat 4 (A4), was the world's first long-range guided ballistic missile.
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Western Technical Training Command
Western Technical Training Command was a command of the United States Army Air Forces.
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Whiteman Air Force Base
Whiteman Air Force Base (AFB) is a United States Air Force base located approximately south of Knob Noster, MO; east of Warrensburg, MO, and east-southeast of Kansas City.
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William F. McKee
William Fulton McKee (October 17, 1906 – February 28, 1987) was a United States Air Force four-star general who served as Commander, Air Force Logistics Command (COMAFLC) from 1961 to 1962; and Vice Chief of Staff, U.S. Air Force (VCSAF) from 1962 to 1964.
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William Hood Simpson
General William Hood Simpson (May 18, 1888 – August 15, 1980) was a senior United States Army officer who served with distinction in both World War I and World War II.
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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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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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1st Combat Evaluation Group
The 1st Combat Evaluation Group (initially "1CEG", later "1CEVG") was a Strategic Air Command (SAC) unit.
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3903rd Radar Bomb Scoring Group
The 3903rd Radar Bomb Scoring Group was a military evaluation unit under direct command of Strategic Air Command (SAC) headquarters for scoring simulated bomb runs using automatic tracking radar stations.
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40th Air Expeditionary Wing
The United States Air Force's 40th Air Expeditionary Wing (40 AEW) was an Air expeditionary unit located at Diego Garcia, in the Indian Ocean, from 2001 to c. 2006.
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444th Air Expeditionary Wing
The 444th Air Expeditionary Wing is a provisional unit of the United States Air Force assigned to Air Combat Command to activate or inactivate as needed.
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448th Supply Chain Management Group
The 448th Supply Chain Management Group is an inactive United States Air Force unit.
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449th Air Expeditionary Group
The 449th Air Expeditionary Group (449 AEG) is a provisional United States Air Force unit assigned to the Seventeenth Air Force supporting United States Africa Command.
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44th Fighter Group
The 44th Fighter Group (44 FG) is an Air Reserve Component (ARC) of the United States Air Force.
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467th Bombardment Group
The 467th Bombardment Group is an inactive United States Army Air Forces unit.
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485th Air Expeditionary Wing
The 485th Air Expeditionary Wing is a provisional United States Air Force unit assigned to Air Combat Command.
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498th Nuclear Systems Wing
The 498th Nuclear Systems Wing (498 NSW) was a wing of the United States Air Force based at Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico.
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58th Air Division
The 58th Air Division (58th AD) is an inactive United States Air Force unit.
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73d Air Division
The 73d Air Division is an inactive United States Air Force unit.
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93d Operations Group
The 93d Operations Group is an inactive United States Air Force unit.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental_Air_Forces
