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    Minter Army Airfield auxiliary fields were a number of airfields used during World War II to support the Minter Army Airfield (now the Shafter Airport)...
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    Victorville Army Airfield auxiliary fields were four airfields used during World War II to support the Victorville Army Airfield pilot training near Victorville...
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    Merced Army Air Field auxiliary fields were built to support pilot training at the Merced Army Air Field. In 1940 the US Army wanted to build near Merced...
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    Chico Army Airfield auxiliary fields were a number of airfields used during World War II to support the Chico Army Airfield. On September 11, 1941, the...
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    Gardner Army Airfield auxiliary fields were a number of airfields used during World War II to support the Gardner Army Airfield. May 12, 1943 the US Army leased...
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  • airport was built as the Lost Hills Auxiliary Field or Lost Hills Field No. 7, a satellite airfield of Minter Field, a US Army World War II pilot training base...
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  • Poso Airport. List of airports in Kern County, California Minter Army Airfield auxiliary fields California during World War II American Theater (1939–1945)...
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    1942, the airfield was renamed Minter Field Army Airfield after a member of the locally prominent Minter family, First Lieutenant Hugh C. Minter. Lieutenant...
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  • were designed as "fallback fields" for launching defensive operations in case of a Japanese invasion. Most Army airfields were built with three runways...
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    Marysville Army Airfield Parker Auxiliary Airfield Kern Field Auxiliary Airfield Allen Auxiliary Airfield Conners Auxiliary Airfield Taft Auxiliary Airfield Cuyama...
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    most common plane used for training at Wasco Auxiliary Field and the Minter Army Airfields. The US Army leased the small 1932 40 acres Wasco Airport and...
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    base, Buckingham also operated Naples Army Airfield (Now Naples Municipal Airport) as an auxiliary landing field. In addition, two crash boat bases; one...
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    Mather Merced Army Airfield California, 8 January 1943 Minter Field, California, 11 September 1943 – 16 June 1946 Aviation portal Army Air Forces Training...
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    Coalinga Municipal Airport (Old) (category Airfields of the United States Army Air Forces in California)
    airport was used an auxiliary training airfield for Minter Field Army Airfield, and Lemoore Army Airfield, California. It was released to civil use at the...
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    then had two airfields. The more prominent field was at Sacramento and Monterey streets in East Bakersfield (at the time, mostly empty fields). It was named...
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    "V-E Day", the Army Air Forces had 1.25 million men stationed overseas and operated from more than 1,600 airfields worldwide. The Army Air Forces was...
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    school at St. Joseph Army Air Field, Missouri. The school at Homestead Army Airfield, Florida was a four-engine transport school. Reno Army Air Base, Nevada...
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    America the Beautiful Quarters series. Alabama World War II Army Airfields Tuskegee Army Airfield 29th Flying Training Wing (World War II) "National Park...
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  • Florida KAPG (APG) – Phillips Army Airfield – Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland KAPH (APH) – A.P. Hill Army Airfield – Fort Walker, Virginia KAPN (APN) –...
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  • (1973) 'The Rhodesian Air Training Group 1940–1945', Rhodesiana (28) 1973. Minter, W.; Schmidt, E. (1988). "When Sanctions Worked: The Case of Rhodesia Re-examined"...
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    Regia Aeronautica in the Battle of Britain History of North Weald Airfield The Royal Mint Memorial website New Zealanders in the Battle of Britain (NZHistory...
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    armed conflicts. It was officially established on 8 October 1932 as an auxiliary air force of the British Empire which honoured India's aviation service...
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    Indian Army". Press Information Bureau. 23 September 2021. Staff Writer (13 February 2021). "PM Modi will hand over Arjun Mark 1A to Indian Army". mint. Retrieved...
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  • to 317 hp with the water injection activated. Restored car taken to an airfield for a drag race against a 1992 Ferrari 348. Sold to a buyer whose father...
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    force of the ancien regime, the gendarmerie was initially a full-time auxiliary to the National Guard militia. In 1791 the newly named gendarmerie nationale...
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  • Vultee BT-13, 41-9665, of the 327th School Squadron, Minter Field, crashes at Dunlap Auxiliary Field. KWF are Lt. William B. Raabe, and cadet Irel W. Crowe...
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    India in World War II (category History of the Indian Army)
    mismanagement by British Indian regional governments; constructing 900 airfields (2000 acres each) taking that huge amount of land out of agriculture in...
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    carried out by three Heinkel He 111s which had intended to bomb Dijon airfield in France. Freiburg was largely spared from the aerial warfare conducted...
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    corvettes, one mine countermeasure vessel, 4 fleet tankers and numerous other auxiliary vessels, small patrol boats and sophisticated ships. It is considered...
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    Eaker Field, the city's airport, and home to Southeastern Oklahoma State University's Aviation Sciences Institute, was a U.S. Navy auxiliary airfield during...
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