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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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    Forces and built the Redding Army Airfield. Initially, this was a sub-base for Chico AAF and garrisoned by the 433d Army Air Force Base Unit. It was under...
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    Center, Army Air Forces Training Command. Chico AAF also had five auxiliary landing fields: Orland Auxiliary Field No. 1 39°43′16″N 122°08′44″W / 39.72111°N...
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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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    P-39 Airacobra, as Chico Army Airfield auxiliary field. On April 7, 1945, training switched to heavy bomber with the 404th and 405th Army Air Force. The US...
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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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    On 1 May 1944, the Army Air Forces reassigned the airfield to the Chico Army Airfield (AAF). It remained an unmanned auxiliary field and primarily functioned...
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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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  • 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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    Air Force Auxiliary Field, and was an auxiliary training airfield for Chico Army Airfield, California. California World War II Army Airfields  This article...
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    in 1942 during World War II as an auxiliary field to Chico Army Air Field and was originally Hayward Army Air Field. The primary aircraft were Lockheed...
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    Just Cause, The United States Army 2d and 3d Battalions, 75th Ranger Regiment (TF RED ROMEO), departed Lawson Army Airfield, Fort Benning, Georgia, at 18:00...
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    Willows-Glenn County Airport (category Airfields of the United States Army Air Forces in California)
    as an auxiliary airfield for Chico Army Airfield. The only improvement to the site was the asphalt runway. The Fourth Air Force declared the field excess...
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    and Air Panama. Known as David Field or San Jose Field during World War II, the airport was an auxiliary of Howard Field, which is near Panama City. It...
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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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  • War II the facility was used as an auxiliary military airfield (Chame Airdrome, Chame Airfield #1) of Howard Field as part of the defense of the Panama...
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    accident-report.com: Chico Army Airfield". Archived from the original on 25 December 2013. Retrieved 15 March 2014. Flight Training Field Fuselage Codes of...
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    There were minor delays for commercial flights. California World War II Army Airfields  This article incorporates public domain material from the Air Force...
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    Strategic Air Command (category United States Army Air Force Commands)
    Field, Washington, D. C. , Caddo Mills Auxiliary #1 Cash, Texas, Auxiliary #2 Castle Field, California Center Auxiliary #2, Parma, New Mexico Chico Army...
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    South Plains Army Airfield, Lubbock, Texas in October. With the closure of South Plains AAF, the plane was flown to Pyote Army Airfield, Texas in July...
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  • February Two Lockheed P-38L Lightnings of the 433d Base Unit out of Chico Army Airfield, California, collide in mid-air 28 miles (45 km) northwest of Barstow...
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    officers, 14 NCOs and 11 marines) Royal Fleet Auxiliary – 4 + 6 Hong Kong sailors Merchant Navy – 6 British Army – 123 (7 officers, 40 NCOs and 76 privates)...
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    Fort Ord (category Installations of the United States Army in California)
    of Dave Egger's 2014 novel Your Fathers, Where Are They?. Fort Ord Army Airfield Rancho Laguna Seca California during World War II List of national monuments...
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    Moffett Field, impacted the runway at an excessive rate of descent while conducting at dedicated field work sortie at Naval Auxiliary Landing Field Crows...
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    Lockheed P-2 Neptune (category Aircraft with auxiliary jet engines)
    static display at Moffett Historical Museum, Moffett Federal Airfield (former NAS Moffett Field), California. P2V-7/P-2H 140443 – Yankee Air Museum in Belleville...
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    ABC News. Retrieved 2022-02-18. "Historic Posts, Camps, Stations and Airfields: Post at Alcatraz Island". Militarymuseum.org. Archived from the original...
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  • States Army Boeing-Vertol CH-47C Chinook, 74-22292, of the 295th Assault Support Helicopter Company—"Cyclones", located at Coleman Army Airfield, Coleman...
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    preparing to make an air strike there. The pigeon flew 20 miles (32 km) to the airfield just as seven RAF bombers were preparing to depart, and the mission was...
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