| Barksdale Air Force Base | | | | IATA: BAD - ICAO: KBAD | | Summary | | Airport type | Military | | Operator | USAF | | Elevation AMSL | 166 ft (51 m) | | Coordinates | 32°30′6.548″N, 93°39′45.637″W | | Runways | | Direction | Length | Surface | | ft | m | | 15/33 | 11,756 | 3,658 | PEM | Barksdale Air Force Base is a United States Air Force base that lies at the foot of the Shreveport/Barksdale Highway Bridge in 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 hosts a large complement of B-52 bombers and A-10 "tank busters". During World War II Barksdale played host to the major contingent of the Free French Air Forces. An IATA airport code, also known an IATA location identifier or simply a location identifier [1], is a three-letter code designating many airports around the world, defined by the International Air Transport Association (IATA). ...
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Bossier City is a city located in Bossier Parish, Louisiana. ...
Official language(s) de jure: none de facto: English & French Capital Baton Rouge Largest city Baton Rouge [1] Area Ranked 31st - Total 51,885 sq mi (134,382 km²) - Width 130 miles (210 km) - Length 379 miles (610 km) - % water 16 - Latitude 29°N to 33°N - Longitude 89°W...
The 2d Bomb Wing (2 BW) is a B-52 Stratofortress unit based at Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana. ...
The Eighth Air Force is a numbered air force (NAF) of the major command (MAJCOM) of Air Combat Command of the United States Air Force and it is headquartered at Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana. ...
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Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki TÅjÅ Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000...
History
Barksdale Field official opened in 1933. It is named in honor of Lt. Eugene Hoy Barksdale, United States Army Air Corps, who lost his life August 11, 1926 , while flight testing an observation airplane in Dayton, Ohio . It has been suggested that this article be split into multiple articles accessible from a disambiguation page. ...
August 11 is the 223rd day of the year (224th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ...
Year 1926 (MCMXXVI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar). ...
Nickname: Gem City Coordinates: Country United States State Ohio County Montgomery Founded April 1, 1796 Incorporated 1805 Government - Mayor Rhine L. McLin Area - City 56. ...
By the mid-1930s, Barksdale Field was the headquarters and main base of the 3rd Wing, used by fighter and attack pilots to hone their gunnery and bombing skills. The 1940s saw the training of bomber crews. Barksdale then became headquarters for the Air Training Command from 1945 to 1949 and began phasing out bomber crew training. Barksdale Field was renamed Barksdale Air Force Base January 13, 1948. Air Training Command (ATC) was a former United States Air Force command. ...
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1948 (MCMXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1948 calendar). ...
From 1972 through 1973 almost all of the base's resources were deployed overseas for operations over Vietnam. All aircraft and crews returned to Barksdale in January and October of 1973. January 1, 1975 , Headquarters Eighth Air Force was installed on Barksdale. January 1 is the first day of the calendar year in both the Julian and Gregorian calendars. ...
1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday. ...
The Eighth Air Force is a numbered air force (NAF) of the major command (MAJCOM) of Air Combat Command of the United States Air Force and it is headquartered at Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana. ...
In April 1982, and again in December 1990, the space shuttle Columbia made a stop at Barksdale on its way back to Cape Canaveral. Space Shuttle Columbia (NASA Orbiter Vehicle Designation: OV-102) was the first spaceworthy space shuttle in NASAs orbital fleet (Enterprise preceded Columbia, but Enterprise was a non-spaceworthy test article intended for later conversion to a flightworthy vehicle). ...
Cape Canaveral from space, August 1991 Cape Canaveral (Cabo Cañaveral in Spanish) is a strip of land in Brevard County, Florida, United States, near the center of that states Atlantic coast. ...
In April 1992, 265 buildings on Barksdale’s main base were placed on the National Registry of Historic Places. The National Register of Historic Places is the USAs official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects worthy of preservation. ...
Barksdale was the first location to which President George W. Bush was flown after the September 11 terrorist attacks. George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is an American politician and the 43rd and current President of the United States. ...
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See also For the film of the same name, see Strategic Air Command (film) The Strategic Air Command (SAC) was the operational establishment of the United States Air Force in charge of Americas bomber-based and ballistic missile-based strategic nuclear arsenal from 1946 to 1992. ...
ACC bases and deploments The Air Combat Command (ACC) is a major command (MAJCOM) of the United States Air Force whose mission is to provide air combat forces (mostly aircraft), to other commands, including both commands within the Air Force as well as the United States Unified Combatant Commands that...
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