Jimmy Stewart: Flying High Without a Scandal! a BIOGRAPHICAL BOOK REVIEW by HAP CHANDLER (491St) and ANDY LOW (453Rd)
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United States Air Force and Its Antecedents Published and Printed Unit Histories
UNITED STATES AIR FORCE AND ITS ANTECEDENTS PUBLISHED AND PRINTED UNIT HISTORIES A BIBLIOGRAPHY EXPANDED & REVISED EDITION compiled by James T. Controvich January 2001 TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTERS User's Guide................................................................................................................................1 I. Named Commands .......................................................................................................................4 II. Numbered Air Forces ................................................................................................................ 20 III. Numbered Commands .............................................................................................................. 41 IV. Air Divisions ............................................................................................................................. 45 V. Wings ........................................................................................................................................ 49 VI. Groups ..................................................................................................................................... 69 VII. Squadrons..............................................................................................................................122 VIII. Aviation Engineers................................................................................................................ 179 IX. Womens Army Corps............................................................................................................ -
A Tribute to the Life of Jack Grayburn. Preface
A Tribute to The Life of Jack Grayburn. Preface. To be President of our great rugby club is an honour and a privilege, especially so when one considers the many illustrious members in our 90 odd years of history. We live now in very different times. The first members of Chiltern RFC will have experienced, some at first hand the almost unbearably tragic events of the World War 1. As the club grew in the 1930s the shadow of war once again fell over Europe and men such as Jack Grayburn knew what could befall them should another conflict unfold. It is difficult for us now to comprehend the sacrifices that war dictates, the destruction of families, communities, a way of life. But those Chiltern rugby players in the late 1930s must have known what might be expected of them, and must have trusted that they would rise to the challenge, and must have known that some of them would not return. Our honours board at the club has 22 names on it, a club with perhaps 60 playing members in 1939. This ratio speaks for itself, a number that is shocking and humbling; and however many times this refrain is repeated it is no less true: they died so that we might have a future, a future to enjoy the manifold benefits of a good life in a free society. And surely each one of those Chiltern players who went to war and did not return would rejoice that our club continues and is in fine shape, upholding the same values, embodying all that is best in sport and comradeship. -
B-57G Thailandthailand November 2010
November 2010 Vol. 27 No. 3 The Magazine of the 13th Bomb Squadron Association OUR HERITAGE - 13th Aero Squadron 14 June 1917 http://www.13thbombsquadron.org/ Bottom Row Left to Right Forman; Unk; Kelly; Miller;Mathews; Tetreault; Scroggs; Brandon; Buttram, Jack; Dievert; Stroehl, Charlie; Allner, Walt; Unk; Brietski Second Row Chase; Howard;Unk; Unk; Kahen; Mertz; Unk; Judd; Diamond;Lamer; Eddie;Unk; Krough Third Row Golojuch; Griffin (1st Sgt.); Pope; Unk;Palm; Taddlock; Unk; Bell; Unk; Unk; Sahli;Leapold; Mr. Young;Beaslet, Tom; Long; Hedland; Hambleton; Williams; Unk; Reed On Aircraft Devalt; Pickles; Thompson B-57GB-57G ThailandThailand November 2010 President’s Corner A first-time Gathering of know any of these men, please contact and congratulate 13th Eagles occurred at them and then invite them to join our Association and Tampa, FL. on September come to the Washington, DC Reunion in May 2011. 18, 2010, when the men of the 13th Bomb Squadron The new 13th Bomb Squadron Association web site should (B-57G) met to celebrate their be available in Dec. at www.13thBombSquadron.net. departure to the Vietnam Our designer, FaverWebs, has done a terrific job over War exactly 40 years earlier. the last six months in helping us with the development These men continued the and structure of the site and adding suggestions and 13th Bomb Squadron fight constructive comments to get us on line. We must thank against the North Vietnamese Suzie Faver and her expert team headed by Sarah Adams and Viet Cong enemy that for all the help and hard work which brought the site to Bob Butterfield Grim Reapers had begun in fruition. -
World War II at Sea This Page Intentionally Left Blank World War II at Sea
World War II at Sea This page intentionally left blank World War II at Sea AN ENCYCLOPEDIA Volume I: A–K Dr. Spencer C. Tucker Editor Dr. Paul G. Pierpaoli Jr. Associate Editor Dr. Eric W. Osborne Assistant Editor Vincent P. O’Hara Assistant Editor Copyright 2012 by ABC-CLIO, LLC All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, except for the inclusion of brief quotations in a review, without prior permission in writing from the publisher. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data World War II at sea : an encyclopedia / Spencer C. Tucker. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-59884-457-3 (hardcopy : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-1-59884-458-0 (ebook) 1. World War, 1939–1945—Naval operations— Encyclopedias. I. Tucker, Spencer, 1937– II. Title: World War Two at sea. D770.W66 2011 940.54'503—dc23 2011042142 ISBN: 978-1-59884-457-3 EISBN: 978-1-59884-458-0 15 14 13 12 11 1 2 3 4 5 This book is also available on the World Wide Web as an eBook. Visit www.abc-clio.com for details. ABC-CLIO, LLC 130 Cremona Drive, P.O. Box 1911 Santa Barbara, California 93116-1911 This book is printed on acid-free paper Manufactured in the United States of America To Malcolm “Kip” Muir Jr., scholar, gifted teacher, and friend. This page intentionally left blank Contents About the Editor ix Editorial Advisory Board xi List of Entries xiii Preface xxiii Overview xxv Entries A–Z 1 Chronology of Principal Events of World War II at Sea 823 Glossary of World War II Naval Terms 831 Bibliography 839 List of Editors and Contributors 865 Categorical Index 877 Index 889 vii This page intentionally left blank About the Editor Spencer C. -
Almanac ■ Guide to Air Force Installations Worldwide
USAFAlmanac ■ Guide to Air Force Installations Worldwide Major Installations Note: A major installation is an Air Force Base, Air Andrews AFB, Md. 20762-5000; 10 mi. SE of 4190th Wing, Pisa, Italy; 31st Munitions Support Base, Air Guard Base, or Air Reserve Base that Washington, D. C. Phone (301) 981-1110; DSN Sqdn., Ghedi AB, Italy; 4190th Air Base Sqdn. serves as a self-supporting center for Air Force 858-1110. AMC base. Gateway to the nation’s (Provisional), San Vito dei Normanni, Italy; 496th combat, combat support, or training operations. capital and home of Air Force One. Host wing: 89th Air Base Sqdn., Morón AB, Spain; 731st Munitions Active-duty, Air National Guard (ANG), or Air Force Airlift Wing. Responsible for Presidential support Support Sqdn., Araxos AB, Greece; 603d Air Control Reserve Command (AFRC) units of wing size or and base operations; supports all branches of the Sqdn., Jacotenente, Italy; 48th Intelligence Sqdn., larger operate the installation with all land, facili- armed services, several major commands, and Rimini, Italy. One of the oldest Italian air bases, ties, and support needed to accomplish the unit federal agencies. The wing also hosts Det. 302, dating to 1911. USAF began operations in 1954. mission. There must be real property accountability AFOSI; Hq. Air Force Flight Standards Agency; Area 1,467 acres. Runway 8,596 ft. Altitude 413 through ownership of all real estate and facilities. AFOSI Academy; Air National Guard Readiness ft. Military 3,367; civilians 1,102. Payroll $156.9 Agreements with foreign governments that give Center; 113th Wing (D. C. -
Full Biography
BIOGRAPHY UNITED STATES AIR FORCE MAJOR DUSTIN S. PUETT Maj Dustin S. Puett is Chief, Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) Flight Systems Requirements Branch, Air Force Global Strike Command (AFGSC), Barksdale Air Force Base (AFB), La. As Branch Chief of ICBM Flight Systems Requirements Maj Puett Serves as command lead for future ICBM flight systems. Additionally, he plans, integrates, and executes multiple program interfaces to ensure program success. He leads division weapons & tactics efforts and is responsible advising leaders on ICBM tactics, techniques, and procedures. Furthermore, the Major is also responsible for developing all ICBM system training plans and strategies. Maj Puett is a 2007 graduate from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte with a Bachelor of Arts degree in biology. He has served in various leadership and staff positions during his career which include ICBM Combat Crew Commander, ICBM Weapons and Tactics Planner and Trainer, a tour as a Flight Commander and Division Chief at Squadron Officer College, and an assignment to Air Force Global Strike Command where he served as Deputy Chief, Strategic Studies and Wargaming Branch. Prior to his current assignment he served as the Deputy Chief, Strategic Basing and Total Force Integration Branch, Air Force Global Strike Command (AFGSC), Barksdale Air Force Base (AFB), La. His wartime experience includes a tour as the Aide-de-Camp for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) & 9th Air Expeditionary Task Force - Afghanistan Commander at Headquarters, Resolute Support (NATO), Kabul, Afghanistan. He was responsible for the planning, coordinating, and execution of the Commander’s travel. Maj Puett was also responsible for the Commander’s personal security and coordinating with security personnel. -
Pinnacle 19-1 Bio Book.Pdf
BBIIOOGGRRAAPPHHIICCAALL DDAATTAA BBOOOOKK Pinnacle 19-1 25-29 March 2019 National Defense University SENIOR FELLOWS Admiral Sam J Locklear, US Navy (Ret) Admiral Locklear started as a Capstone, Keystone, Pinnacle Senior Fellow in 2019. He is President of SJL Global Insights LLC, a global consulting firm specializing in a wide range of security and defense issues and initiatives. Today he serves on the Board of Directors of the Fluor Corporation, Halo Maritime Defense Systems, Inc., the National Committee on U.S. China Relations, is a Senior Advisor to the Center for Climate and Security and New York University’s Center for Global Affairs, is a Senior Fellow at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, and is the Chairman of the Board of Trustees United States Naval Academy Alumni Association. He also occasionally consults for HII, Raytheon IDS, and Fairfax National Security Solutions. In 2015 he retired from the US Navy after serving with distinction for over 39 years, including 15 years of service as a Flag Officer. During his significant tenure Admiral Locklear lead at the highest levels serving as Commander U.S. Pacific Command, Commander U.S. Naval Forces Europe and Africa, and Commander of NATO’s Allied Joint Force Command. In 2013 Defense News ranked him eleventh out of the 100 most influential people in global defense issues. As Commander U.S. Pacific Command, the United States’ oldest and largest geographic unified combatant command, he commanded all U.S. military forces operating across more than half the globe. He accurately assessed the rapidly changing geopolitical environment of the Indo-Asia-Pacific, the most militarized area of the world, made significant advancements in how U.S. -
Ubon Royal Thai Air Force Base Historical Brief
Ubon Royal Thai Air Force Base Historical Brief Ubon Royal Thai Air Force Base is a Royal Thai Air Force facility, which is also being used as a civil airport. It is located near the city of Ubon Ratchathani, in the Ubon Ratchathani Province, about 250 miles northeast of Bangkok. During the Vietnam War it was a front-line base of the United States Air Force. The host wing at Ubon was the 8th Tactical Fighter Wing, arriving in November 1966. Comprising the flying units were four F-4D "Phantom" tactical fighter squadrons. Also assigned to the wing was the 16th Special Operations Squadron, which flew AC-130 "Spectre" gunships. The 13th Bomb Squadron was assigned from September 1970 until April 1972, flying the B-57G The 13th flew mostly night interdiction missions against North Vietnamese truck traffic on the Ho Chi Minh trail. At the peak of operations in 1969, the units assigned to Ubon RTAFB were the following: Host Unit - 8th Tactical Fighter Wing • 16th Special Operations Squadron - 4 AC-130As, 1 AC-123K, 7 C-130As • 25th, 433rd, 435th Tactical Fighter Squadron - 70 RF-4Ds • Det 3, 38th Air Rescue And Recovery Squadron (ARRS) - 2 HH-43s, 12 O-2s • Tenant units at Ubon RTAFB included the 23rd Tactical Air Support Squadron flying the OV- 10. The 23rd's "Rustic FAC's" flew missions in support of ground forces, interdiction missions and armed convoy support. Another tenant, the 3rd Aerospace Rescue and Recovery Group performed a vital support role in crash rescue, aircrew recovery and evacuation missions. -
The Fighting Five-Tenth: One Fighter-Bomber Squadron's
The Fighting Five-Tenth: One Fighter-Bomber Squadron’s Experience during the Development of World War II Tactical Air Power by Adrianne Lee Hodgin Bruce A dissertation submitted to the Graduate Faculty of Auburn University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy Auburn, Alabama December 14, 2013 Keywords: World War II, fighter squadrons, tactical air power, P-47 Thunderbolt, European Theater of Operations Copyright 2013 by Adrianne Lee Hodgin Bruce Approved by William Trimble, Chair, Alumni Professor of History Alan Meyer, Assistant Professor of History Mark Sheftall, Associate Professor of History Abstract During the years between World War I and World War II, many within the Army Air Corps (AAC) aggressively sought an independent air arm and believed that strategic bombardment represented an opportunity to inflict severe and dramatic damages on the enemy while operating autonomously. In contrast, working in cooperation with ground forces, as tactical forces later did, was viewed as a subordinate role to the army‘s infantry and therefore upheld notions that the AAC was little more than an alternate means of delivering artillery. When President Franklin Delano Roosevelt called for a significantly expanded air arsenal and war plan in 1939, AAC strategists saw an opportunity to make an impression. Eager to exert their sovereignty, and sold on the efficacy of heavy bombers, AAC leaders answered the president‘s call with a strategic air doctrine and war plans built around the use of heavy bombers. The AAC, renamed the Army Air Forces (AAF) in 1941, eventually put the tactical squadrons into play in Europe, and thus tactical leaders spent 1943 and the beginning of 1944 preparing tactical air units for three missions: achieving and maintaining air superiority, isolating the battlefield, and providing air support for ground forces. -
The Cold War and Beyond
Contents Puge FOREWORD ...................... u 1947-56 ......................... 1 1957-66 ........................ 19 1967-76 ........................ 45 1977-86 ........................ 81 1987-97 ........................ 117 iii Foreword This chronology commemorates the golden anniversary of the establishment of the United States Air Force (USAF) as an independent service. Dedicated to the men and women of the USAF past, present, and future, it records significant events and achievements from 18 September 1947 through 9 April 1997. Since its establishment, the USAF has played a significant role in the events that have shaped modem history. Initially, the reassuring drone of USAF transports announced the aerial lifeline that broke the Berlin blockade, the Cold War’s first test of wills. In the tense decades that followed, the USAF deployed a strategic force of nuclear- capable intercontinental bombers and missiles that deterred open armed conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union. During the Cold War’s deadly flash points, USAF jets roared through the skies of Korea and Southeast Asia, wresting air superiority from their communist opponents and bringing air power to the support of friendly ground forces. In the great global competition for the hearts and minds of the Third World, hundreds of USAF humanitarian missions relieved victims of war, famine, and natural disaster. The Air Force performed similar disaster relief services on the home front. Over Grenada, Panama, and Libya, the USAF participated in key contingency actions that presaged post-Cold War operations. In the aftermath of the Cold War the USAF became deeply involved in constructing a new world order. As the Soviet Union disintegrated, USAF flights succored the populations of the newly independent states. -
Gao-20-296, Defense Nuclear Enterprise
United States Government Accountability Office Report to Congressional Committees March 2020 DEFENSE NUCLEAR ENTERPRISE Systems Face Sustainment Challenges, and Actions Are Needed to Effectively Monitor Efforts to Improve the Enterprise GAO-20-296 March 2020 DEFENSE NUCLEAR ENTERPRISE Systems Face Sustainment Challenges, and Actions Are Needed to Effectively Monitor Efforts to Improve Highlights of GAO-20-296, a report to the Enterprise congressional committees Why GAO Did This Study What GAO Found In 2014, the Secretary of Defense The Department of Defense (DOD) continues to make progress in implementing directed two reviews of DOD’s recommendations to improve the nuclear enterprise. These recommendations nuclear enterprise. These reviews stemmed from DOD’s 2014 internal and independent nuclear enterprise reviews, made recommendations to address a U.S. Strategic Command 2014 memorandum, and an internal DOD 2015 report problems with leadership, on nuclear command, control, and communications (NC3). Since GAO last organization, investment, morale, reported—in November 2018—an additional five of the 247 sub- policy, and procedures, as well as recommendations from the 2014 reviews have been closed; 91 remain open. In other shortcomings that adversely that time, DOD has also closed two more of the 13 recommendations from the affected the nuclear deterrence 2015 review; six remain open. However, the key tracking tools DOD uses to mission. In 2015, DOD conducted a provide visibility on the status of the recommendations do not provide current and review focused on NC3 systems, which resulted in additional complete information. For example, for those items that are behind schedule, recommendations to improve NC3. many of the expected completion dates have not been updated to reflect when the items are now expected to be completed. -
Inhaltsverzeichnis 1
Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Chronik des Marktes Giebelstadt(1) 5 2. Der Fliegerhorst 6 2.1. Voraussetzung für den Bau des Fliegerhorsts Giebelstadt 7 2.2. Vermessungen und Kaufverhandlungen 7 2.3. Die Realisierung des Bauvorhabens 8 3. Der Fliegerhorst vor dem Krieg 1935-1939 11 3.1. Die wirtschaftlichen Folgen durch den Bau des Fliegerhorstes 24 3.1.1. Wehrmachtssiedlungen in Giebelstadt 24 3.2. Wichtige Ereignisse 26 3.2.1. Parade des V. Armeekorps in Giebelstadt 26 3.2.2. Übergabe der Truppenfahne am Fliegerhorst 31 3.2.3. 1100 Jahrfeier 32 3.2.4. Besuch des Generalleutnant Kesselring, Generalstabschef der Luftwaffe 1936 33 3.2.5. Besuch des Giebelstädter Bürgermeisters Otto Scheer 1936 33 3.3. Fliegerhorst Bodeneinheiten 35 3.3.1. Fliegerhorstfeuerwehr 35 3.3.2. Fliegerhorstmusikkorps 38 3.4. Kampfgeschwader 455 42 3.4.1. Erinnerungen von Ltn. Gustav-Adolf Klüter(20) 42 3.4.2. Übergabe der Fliegergruppe 1936 von Obtl. Speidel an Major Weber 43 3.4.3. Die ersten Do 23 Flugzeuge 45 3.4.4. Stellenbesetzung des Kampfgeschwader 455 am 01.10.1935 46 3.4.5. Ltn. Rudolf Freiherr von Moreau 49 3.4.6. Trauerfeier im Fliegerhorst Giebelstadt 1936 50 3.4.7. Erinnerungen von Ltn. Thon 57 3.4.8. Aus den Erinnerungen von Ltn. Eckhard Thon 58 3.5. Kampfgeschwader I./155 66 3.5.1. Stellenbesetzung des Kampfgeschwader L/155 am 01.04.1936 67 3.5.2. Werkstattzug KG I./155 68 3.5.3. Flugzeugbilder des I./KG 155 71 3.5.4. Flugzeugkennung des I./KG 155 74 3.6.