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During the Cold War, in 1949, the United States Air Force Strategic Air Command reactivated the range and refurbished the runways. Runway 03/21 was extended to 8,000 ft to accommodate jet fighters, along with SAC B-29 and B-50 Superfortress bombers. The Air Force renamed the facility Matagorda Island Air Force Base. It built a dock, a large ...
Lackland Air Force Base CDP is a census-designated place (CDP) covering the permanent residential population of the Lackland Air Force Base in Bexar County, Texas, United States. [22] It first appeared as an unincorporated community in the 1970 U.S. Census [ 23 ] and then as a census designated place in the 1980 U.S. Census . [ 24 ]
Randolph Air Force Base: San Antonio Fort Sam Houston: San Antonio Camp Bullis: San Antonio Martindale Army Air Field: San Antonio Dyess Air Force Base: Abilene: Goodfellow Air Force Base: San Angelo: Laughlin Air Force Base: Del Rio: Sheppard Air Force Base: Wichita Falls: Fort Cavazos: Killeen: Fort Bliss: El Paso: Fort Wolters: Mineral Wells ...
Bergstrom Air Force Base (IATA: BSM, ICAO: KBSM, FAA LID: BSM) was located seven miles southeast of Austin, Texas. In its later years it was a major base for the United States Air Force (USAF) RF-4C Phantom reconnaissance fighter fleet. Bergstrom Air Force Base blueprint, 1957 A British Airways Concorde on base.
Joint Base San Antonio (JBSA) is a United States military facility located in San Antonio, Texas, US.The facility is under the jurisdiction of the United States Air Force 502d Air Base Wing, Air Education and Training Command (AETC).
Kelly Air Force Base personnel processed and routed vital war material earmarked for South Vietnam to the Southeast Asian Theater. By 1967, the pace of the United States build-up intensified. The Lockheed C-141A Starlifter cargo aircraft began to enter the Air Force inventory in sufficient numbers to replace the aging Douglas C-124 Globemaster II .
Randolph Air Force Base (IATA: RND, ICAO: KRND, FAA LID: RND) is a United States Air Force base located at Universal City, Texas (14.8 miles (23.8 km) east-northeast of Downtown San Antonio). Opened in 1931, Randolph has been a flying training facility for the United States Army Air Corps , the United States Army Air Forces , and the Air Force ...
Shaw, Frederick J. (2004), Locating Air Force Base Sites, History’s Legacy, Air Force History and Museums Program, United States Air Force, Washington DC. OCLC 57007862, 1050653629; Thole, Lou (1999). Forgotten Fields of America: World War II Bases and Training, Then and Now. Vol. 2. Pictorial Histories Publishing. ISBN 978-1-57510-051-7.