The Lowry Bombing and Gunnery Range (LBGR) was a World War II and Cold War facility that included 4 of the 6 HGM-25A Titan I missile launch complexes...
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Vegas Bombing and Gunnery Range The Rear Gunner (1943), training film with Ronald Reagan and Burgess Meredith. Lowry Bombing and Gunnery Range, Colorado...
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the neighborhood Lowry Field, the 1938–1948 installation Lowry Bombing and Gunnery Range, the nearby area used for World War II and Cold War ordnance...
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Logan from Lowry. Beginning 16 July 1940, the 1st class of the AAF bombardier schools was at Lowry and used the nearby bombing and gunnery range through...
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Genesee Mountain Park Training Annex (category Buildings and structures in Jefferson County, Colorado)
in Korean War ground-directed bombing training for live bomb drops at ranges like the Lowry Bombing and Gunnery Range (the early 1960s Titan 1 sites...
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summit of the Wind River chain of mountains thence south east and south by the dividing range of mountains that separate the waters flowing into the Gulf...
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USS Lowry (DD-770), an Allen M. Sumner-class destroyer, is the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for Reigart Bolivar Lowry, who served in...
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Battle of Taranto (redirect from Bombing of Taranto)
aircraft were destroyed on the ground by the bombing, and two unexploded bombs hit the cruiser Trento and the destroyer Libeccio. Near misses damaged the...
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Williams Air Force Base (redirect from Water Pump Station and Water Tower)
fighter gunnery, bombing, and rocketry equipment. Students flew P-51 Mustangs, P-47 Thunderbolts, and beginning at midyear, P-80s. The gunnery school,...
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Goodfellow Air Force Base (category Official website different in Wikidata and Wikipedia)
Mississippi; and targeting, intelligence applications, and general intelligence training from Lowry Air Force Base, Colorado, as a result of Lowry's identification...
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frequently carried two 500 lb (230 kg) bombs, using skip bombing techniques for difficult targets (skipping bombs into railroad tunnels to destroy hidden...
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joy to watch" and concluded that "season two of The Newsroom salvages the promise of becoming something urgent and vital". Brian Lowry of Variety, in...
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James B. Conant (redirect from Slums and Suburbs)
dignitaries present at the Alamogordo Bombing and Gunnery Range for the Trinity nuclear test, the first detonation of an atomic bomb. After the war, Conant became...
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administrative details during organization, and a lack of training facilities, especially bombing and gunnery ranges, leaving a "vast gap between the desired...
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Nevada Test Site (redirect from Nevada bomb testing sites)
Harry S. Truman on December 18, 1950, within the Nellis Air Force Gunnery and Bombing Range. The site was the primary testing location of American nuclear...
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Sheppard Air Force Base (category Buildings and structures in Wichita County, Texas)
places as Greece and Turkey were trained as mechanics. Comptroller, transportation, and intelligence training moved to Sheppard from Lowry AFB, Colorado...
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Gehrig". The Virtual Wall. Retrieved 16 July 2012. "CAPT Tyrrell Gordon Lowry". The Virtual Wall. Retrieved 16 July 2012. "1LT James Alfred Marshall"...
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relations office said that a commercial transport sighted and reported the wreckage. The bombing range was about six miles SE of Florence, Arizona. Victims...
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Summer A 7th Bomb Wing Convair B-36 Peacemaker crew on a training mission out of Carswell AFB, Texas, to the Eglin AFB bombing range in the Gulf of...
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U.S. Naval Base Subic Bay (category Buildings and structures in Olongapo)
Frank E. Evans arrived under tow by a tug. It was stripped and towed to sea as a gunnery target. Harbor Clearance Unit One was activated at Subic Bay...
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List of US Navy ships sunk or damaged in action during World War II (section Ferryboats and launches (YFB))
but its 250 lb bomb penetrated the deck house. The bomb's explosion started fires in the gunnery, machine and electrical workshops and punched a hole...
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Army Air Forces Training Command (category Military units and formations established in 1943)
school for flexible gunnery. Three schools opened in December 1941, and the program grew rapidly. In July 1943 flexible gunnery schools had possessed...
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Oudtshoorn (section Society and culture)
aircrew from all over the Commonwealth in navigation, bombing, and air gunnery. Since 1998 Test Flying Academy of South Africa (TFASA) operates here (initially...
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37th Training Wing (category Military units and formations in Texas)
Guard and Air Force Reserve squadrons, and various allies. Wing aircrews and ground personnel won the United States Air Force Worldwide Fighter gunnery meet...
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Timeline of women in warfare in the United States from 1950 to 1999 (redirect from Timeline of American women in war and the U.S. military from 1945 to 1999)
transgender individuals from serving in the United States military. Master Gunnery Sergeant Geraldine M. Moran became the first female Marine to be promoted...
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Device Forts (section Early history and design)
positioned to defend harbours and anchorages, and designed both to focus artillery fire on enemy ships, and to protect the gunnery teams from attack by those...
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World War I. Tyndall Field, Florida, opened on 13 January 1941 as a gunnery range, is named for him. With the establishment of the United States Air Force...
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USS Havre (section Construction and commissioning)
Mississippi River and Illinois River to Chicago and reported to Naval Station Great Lakes. This coincided with the creation of the new Gunnery School at the...
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Ammen arrived at her destination on 2 October and spent the ensuing nine days practicing gunnery, torpedo, and antisubmarine warfare (ASW) techniques. On...
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British Army during the Second World War (category Military units and formations of the British Empire in World War II)
of drill and fitness training. This was followed by 13 weeks of driving training and maintenance. This was followed by six weeks of gunnery training....
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