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that year in a plane crash in Iran. Wheelus AAF was closed on 15 May 1947, then reopened as Wheelus Air Base (Wheelus AB) on 1 June 1948 and transferred...

Field, San Antonio, Tex. The transport crashed in the Gomor district near the border, between French and Spanish Morocco. Flying from Wheelus Field in...

reorganization of Air Rescue Service. The 7th Air Rescue Squadron at Wheelus Field, Libya was expanded into a group and each of its remotely stationed...

first place at the United States Air Forces in Europe's gunnery meet at Wheelus Field, Libya. In 1955, the 21st Fighter-Bomber Group participated NATO's Carte...

Field, Louisiana, 6 November 1943 – 1 May 1944 Mountain Home Air Force Base, Idaho, 16 April 1951 – 19 September 1952 Wheelus Field (later, Wheelus Air...

In 1954, elements of the 50th Fighter-Bomber Wing spent six weeks at Wheelus Field, Libya, training in air-to-air and ground attack operations, scoring...

Training Command. It was renamed Wheelus Army Air Field (AAF) on 17 May 1945 in honor of USAAF Lieutenant Richard Wheelus who had died earlier that year...

Central Army Group. They also took part in USAFE's gunnery meet at Wheelus Field, Libya and the "Carte Blanche" atomic warfare exercise. In 1956, the...

and its two companion units, the 560th and 561st Squadrons, went to Wheelus Field, Libya, for two weeks of gunnery practice. Late in November 1951 the...

installed in the chapel at Wheelus Air Base to commemorate Lady Be Good and her crew. As part of the US withdrawal from Wheelus, the window was disassembled...

reserved for USAF use. Numbers originally ranged from 1100-1199 for Bolling Field Command to 4900-4999 for Special Weapons Command. Eventually, the numbers...

Cultural and Social Club formed. United States military base built at Wheelus Field. 1950 Al-Ahly Sports Club formed. Corriere del Lunedi founded. 1951...

on 30 September 1943. The squadron was re-activated in July 1952 at Wheelus Field, Libya. It flew C-54s to Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Cyprus; it also operated...

F86F Sabre jet crashed into the Mediterranean eight miles northwest of Wheelus Field, the U.S. Air Force said Friday." 19 January "HONOLULU (AP) – The Navy...

units deployed to Wheelus Field, Libya, where better weather permitted more flying hours. 50th pilots spent six weeks at the Wheelus range near Tripoli...

taking off. The strategic value of Wheelus as a bomber base declined with the development of nuclear missiles and Wheelus served as a tactical fighter training...

2020. "1965 North African News Beat: Wheelus Diary". RAF Lakenheath. 2 May 2013. Retrieved 13 March 2020. "Wheelus Air Base". Atlas Obscura. Retrieved...

Hellenikon (Greece) Iraklion (Greece) Nouasseur (Morocco) Torrejón (Spain) Sidi Slimane (Morocco) Tuzla (Bosnia-Herzegovina) Wheelus (Libya) Zaragoza (Spain)...

Twelfth Air Force in Ramstein, Germany, and in 1958, he transferred to Wheelus Air Base in Tripoli, Libya. In 1961 Colonel McGraw was reassigned to Offutt...

military topographic studies. His first overseas flying assignment was to Wheelus Air Base in Tripoli, Libya. There he mapped the desert for two years, flying...