The VIII Air Support Command is a disbanded United States Army Air Forces unit. It was assigned to Eighth Air Force throughout its existence, and it was...
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Bomber Command V Fighter Command VI Bomber Command VII Bomber Command VIII Air Support Command VIII Bomber Command VIII Fighter Command IX Air Defense...
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Ninth Air Force, Twelfth Air Force, and Fifteenth Air Forces. As the oldest command, which had begun the earliest American operations in Europe as VIII Bomber...
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Germany. VIII Bomber Command was redesignated as Eighth Air Force on 22 February 1944. The Eighth Army Air Force (8 AAF) was a United States Army Air Forces...
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bombers. VIII Air Service Command (Established 1942, name changed to VIII Air Force Service Command by 1943) Service and logistical support. On 22 February...
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The VIII Fighter Command was a United States Army Air Forces unit of command above the wings and below the numbered air force. Its primary mission was...
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VIII Air Force Service Command (originally VIII Air Service Command) was a logistical support formation of the United States Army Air Forces, supporting...
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announced, and VIII Bomber Command (VIII BC) was established in England during February 1942. VIII BC was established at RAF Bomber Command Headquarters...
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Strategic Air Command (SAC) was a United States Department of Defense Specified Command and a United States Air Force (USAF) Major Command responsible...
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Eighth Air Force had flown a total of 1,841 bomber sorties. Other problems were encountered as well. Headquarters, VIII Air Support Command, noted that...
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Blockhaus d'Éperlecques (section Air raids)
facilities, 27 Aug.", Aug–Sep 43 (VIII Fighter Command Narrative for 27 Aug 43), The National Archives, London, TNA AIR 40/436 11 Group Operations Record...
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Navy, and Air Force of the United States Armed Forces. The command is part of the Department of Defense and is the only unified combatant command created...
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Air District, 2 October 1940 III Bomber Command, 5 September 1941 VIII Bomber Command, 7 June 1942 VIII Air Support Command, 1943 IX Bomber Command,...
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First Air Force until c. 27 Dec 1942) VIII Air Support Command, c. 13 January 1943 IX Fighter Command, 16 October 1943 IX Air Support Command (later...
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expeditionary operations for a theater, or in support of a regional combatant commander. Corps Sustainment Commands (CSC), such as the 13th, synchronize distribution...
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RAF Bassingbourn (category Airfields of the VIII Bomber Command in the United Kingdom)
UK, in 1944) but 75 fields were allocated by the Air Ministry on 10 August 1942 for VIII Bomber Command. From 19 August 1942 to 25 June 1945, Bassingbourn...
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Eighth Air Force Several Eighth Air Force B-26 transferred to the Ninth Air Force in late 1943. The Maurders had been part of VIII Air Support Command and...
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former Royal Air Force Far East Air Force, more simply known as RAF Far East Air Force, was the Command organisation that controlled all Royal Air Force assets...
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554th Electronic Systems Wing (redirect from 554th Operations Support Wing)
2010. VIII Air Force Composite Command, 21 November 1943 Air Disarmament Command (Provisional), ca. 23 September 1944 VIII Air Force Composite Command, 10...
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augment the reserve 452d Air Mobility Wing life support, intelligence, supply, command post, crew communications, medical and support staff. The squadron was...
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Wolfram von Richthofen (category Air raid on Bari)
ground-air communications. When the Second World War broke out, Richthofen commanded a specialised ground-attack air unit, Fliegerkorps VIII (8th Air Corps)...
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manage all passengers and cargo traveling by air in and out of Kadena. This Air Mobility Command unit supports about 650 aircraft arrivals and departures...
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on 7 February 2017. "Gemini VIII". www.hq.nasa.gov. "More than an astronaut; an American Airman > Air Force Space Command > Display". www.afspc.af.mil...
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Peterson Space Force Base (redirect from Colorado Springs Army Air Base)
was the location of the Air Force Space Command headquarters from 1987 to 20 December 2019 and has had NORAD/NORTHCOM command center operations since...
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Lewis H. Brereton (category United States Army Command and General Staff College alumni)
command headquarters of the Ninth sent to England. The Ninth was re-activated on October 16 using the medium bomber component of the VIII Air Support...
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Ellsworth is the 28th Bomb Wing (28 BW). Assigned to the Global Strike Command's Eighth Air Force, the 28 BW is one of the USAF's two B-1B Lancer wings, along...
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1943. It took over the 3rd Bombardment Wing of the Eighth Air Force VIII Air Support Command. It was expanded and consisted of three Wings of medium bomber...
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July – 28 October 1942 5th Bombardment Wing, 10–31 July 1942 VIII Ground Air Support Command, 28 April – 29 May 1942 10th Ferrying Squadron, 10 April 1942...
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command and wing levels. It was assigned to VIII Bomber Command, Eighth Air Force. The Division commanded three combat bombardment wings (4th, 13th and...
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September 1943 3d Air Division, 18 June 1945 1st Air Division, 12 August 1945 3d Air Division, 28 September 1945 VIII Fighter Command, 1 November–December...
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