Barksdale Air Force Base is a U.S. military base near Bossier City, Louisiana, USA. Barksdale is the home of the U.S. Air Force's 2nd Bombing Wing and headquarters of the 8th Air Force . Barksdale hosts a large complement of B-52 bombers and A-10 "tank busters".
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Barksdale Air Force Base (http://www.barksdale.af.mil/index.shtml)
Barksdale was born November 5, 1897, in Goshen Springs, Mississippi.
At the time of Barksdale's death in 1926, he was acting chief of the test pilot section in the absence of the chief "Jimmy" Doolittle.
BarksdaleAFB is named in honor of Lieutenant Eugene Hoy Barksdale, Air Corps,U.S. Army, who lost his life August 11, 1926, while flight testing an observation type airplane over McCook Field, in Dayton, Ohio.
Barksdale Air Force Base is a United States Air Force base that lies perfectly at the foot of the Shreveport/Barksdale Highway Bridge in Shreveport and Bossier City, Louisiana.
Barksdale is the home of the Air Force's 2d Bomb Wing, headquarters of the Eighth Air Force, and the Air Force Reserve Command's 917th Wing.
Barksdale was the first location to which President George W. Bush was flown after the September 11 terrorist attacks.
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