Harlingen Air Force Base, originally Harlingen Army Airfield, is a former United States Air Force (USAF) base in northeast Harlingen, Texas. After the...
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installations in Harlingen caused a jump in population from 23,000 in 1950 to 41,000 by 1960. Harlingen Army Air Field preceded Harlingen Air Force Base, which...
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Valley International Airport (redirect from Harlingen Airport)
commercial service airport. Harlingen Air Force Base closed in 1962; a 1961 budget by President John F. Kennedy proposed to close 70 air bases in the U.S., and...
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Air Force Base, Canal Zone, (Closed 1997) France Air Force Base, Canal Zone, (Closed 1949) Howard Air Force Base, Canal Zone, (Closed 1999) Ramey Air...
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coordinates) GPX (secondary coordinates) Mather Air Force Base (Mather AFB) was a United States Air Force Base, which was closed in 1993 pursuant to a post-Cold...
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Marine Military Academy (category Buildings and structures in Harlingen, Texas)
of the former Harlingen Army Airfield, established in 1941. After closing, the field was re-opened in 1952 as the Harlingen Air Force Base which closed...
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1946, when the training mission was moved to Lackland from Harlingen Air Force Base in Harlingen, Texas. Throughout its history, Lackland's BMT program has...
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Aerial Gunner (category Films about the United States Army Air Forces)
Location work was done at the air gunner training school at Harlingen Air Force Base, Texas. Many of the USAAF trainees from the base are used in the film as...
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Nellis Air Force Base ("Nellis" colloq.) is a United States Air Force installation in southern Nevada. Nellis hosts air combat exercises such as Exercise...
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Ellington Field Joint Reserve Base, the former James Connally Air Force Base, and the former Harlingen Air Force Base had been training undergraduate...
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The Commemorative Air Force (CAF), formerly known as the Confederate Air Force, is an American non-profit organization based in Dallas, Texas, that preserves...
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heroism in combat. He died February 19, 1961, at the U.S. Air Force hospital, Harlingen Air Force Base, Texas. Reid and his wife Mary Calhoun (1878–1960) are...
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"History of Nellis Air Force Base". Red Flag: Air Combat for the 21st Century. p. 9. ISBN 978-0-7603-2530-8. "Las Vegas Army Air Field (Nellis)". Cooperative...
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The Air Training Command (ATC) is a former United States Air Force (USAF) Major Command designation. It was headquartered at Randolph Air Force Base, Texas...
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Kevin A. Gilroy (category Recipients of the Air Force Cross (United States))
his commission he underwent Undergraduate Navigator Training at Harlingen Air Force Base in Texas, and was awarded his Navigator Wings in August 1961. He...
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Wing, lineage and history document Air Force Historical Agency, Maxwell AFB, Alabama "www.accident-report.com: Harlingen Army Airfield". Archived from the...
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James G. Jones (general) (category Air University (United States Air Force) alumni)
commissioned through the Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps program in 1956 and received his navigator wings at Harlingen Air Force Base, Texas, in September...
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training, etc. At the end of pre-flight Griffin was ordered to Harlingen Air Force Base in Harlingen, Texas where he would undergo one year of primary and basic...
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section from FM 507 east to Harlingen Air Force Base Access Road was cancelled, and the section from Harlingen Air Force Base Access Road east to FM 1595...
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Curtiss C-46 Commando from the Harlingen Air Force Base on October 1. Ten other military transport aircraft from the U.S. Air Force were sent from Texas to provide...
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Pre-flight Program at Lackland Air Force Base in July, and then to Basic Observer Navigation training at Harlingen Air Force Base in Texas in September. He...
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FIFI (aircraft) (section Commemorative Air Force)
2023 (with Doc being the other). It is owned by the Commemorative Air Force and is based at the Victor N. Agather Hangar at Dallas Executive Airport in Dallas...
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Donald L. Harlow (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the United States Air Force)
Encampment, Harlingen Air Force Base, Texas. May 1955 – August 1958, detachment sergeant major, 3635th Survival Training Wing, Stead Air Force Base, Nevada...
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Frederick J. (2004), Locating Air Force Base Sites History's Legacy, Air Force History and Museums Program, United States Air Force, Washington DC, 2004. Manning...
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John A. Corder (category United States Air Force personnel of the Vietnam War)
aviation cadet program at Harlingen Air Force Base, Texas, in April 1960. After completing B-52 upgrade training at Mather Air Force Base, California and survival...
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piston-engined fighter ordered into production by the United States Air Force. Based on the North American P-51 Mustang, the F-82 was originally designed...
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Travis Elementary School - Travis Unified School District - Travis Air Force Base, California William B. Travis Elementary School - Ennis Independent...
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scripts around them. (The producers later called these "Westerns of the air".) They approached Paramount and said they had a star and three scripts and...
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Homer I. Lewis (category United States Air Force generals)
commander, Headquarters Air Force Reserve, a separate operating agency located at Robins Air Force Base, Georgia. As chief of Air Force Reserve, he served...
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Hurricane XII aircraft in the 1969 Battle of Britain; the Commemorative Air Force at Harlingen, Texas; his plane attempts to take off, but it is something akin...
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