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Cannon Air Force Base is a United States Air Force Base, located approximately southwest of Clovis, New Mexico.

The host unit at Cannon is the 27th Special Operations Wing ( 27 SOW ) assigned to the Air Force Special Operations Command ( AFSOC ).

Cannon AFB was established in 1942 as Army Air Base, Clovis.

Cannon Air Force Base is named in honor of General John K. Cannon ( 1892 – 1955 ).

General Cannon received his wings in 1922 and held a variety of command positions in World War II, including command of all air operations for the invasion of Southern Europe in August 1944 and Commander in Chief, Allied Air Forces in the Mediterranean Theater.

General Cannon retired in 1954 as Commanding General, Tactical Air Command.

While at Cannon, the units conducted ground attack training for Air Force pilots.

On 8 June Clovis AFB was renamed Cannon Air Force Base in honor of the late General John K. Cannon, a former commander of Tactical Air Command.

With the transfer of Bergstrom AFB, Texas to Strategic Air Command, TAC inactivated the 27th Tactical Fighter Wing at Bergstrom and activated it in place at Cannon on 18 February, replacing the 312th TFW which was inactivated in place the same day for reasons of precedence.

From Cannon, the aircrews were transferred to the F-100 bases in South Vietnam-Phù Cát Air Base ( 37th TFW ); Phan Rang AB ( 35th TFW ) and Tuy Hoa AB ( 31st TFW ).

Headquarters 832d Air Division, however, remained at Cannon exercising operational control over several TAC wings ( including the reassigned 474th ) until its inactivation in 1975.

The 837th Air Division moved to Nellis AFB Nevada on 1 July 1975, after which the 27th TFW became the host unit at Cannon.

On 13 May 2005, the Base Realignment and Closure ( BRAC ) Commission recommended that Cannon Air Force Base be closed.

The Air Force had until December 31, 2009 to come up with a new use for Cannon AFB, otherwise the base would be closed in 2010.

On 20 June 2006, it was announced that Cannon AFB would transfer from Air Combat Command and become an Air Force Special Operations Command ( AFSOC ) installation.

According to the Air Force News Service, new airframes, to include the CV-22 Osprey, will likely be assigned to the Hurlburt Field and Duke Field complexes at Eglin AFB, Florida as well as to the new wing at Cannon.

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Portales is located near the larger city of Clovis as well as Cannon Air Force Base, a major contributor to the economy of the region.

Portales is the principal city of the Portales Micropolitan Statistical Area, which is part of the larger Clovis-Portales Combined Statistical Area, including Clovis, away and Cannon Air Force Base, away.

The Portales economy is also connected to Cannon Air Force Base located approximately to the north.

Portales remained partially insulated from the national economic downturn of 2008-2010 due in part to a balanced economy based on agri-business and staple food product manufacturing ( primarily peanut butter and milk ), higher education, and a relatively strong local retail services market fueled by a growing population of Eastern New Mexico University students and Cannon Air Force Base employees.

1988 marked the beginning of Cannon ’ s expansion as a result of decisions made by the Secretary of Defense ’ s Commission on Base Realignment and Closures ( BRAC ).

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This official plan omits one of the largest, most popular car parks, Upper Lodge ( approx 500 metres west of Cannon Gate ), foreshadowing Royal Parks decision to close it permanently on 8 November 2010, in favour of the new Pheasantry and Clapperstile car parks.

Rather than have the flag remade, Annie Wells Cannon introduced HJR 1 and the Utah legislature changed the law to allow the changes found on the 1913 version to become part of the official flag.

The Militant, edited by James P. Cannon, Martin, Abern, and Max Shachtman, was the official organ of the Communist League of America throughout its six years of existence.

The paper was succeeded by a similar broadsheet that served as the official organ of the WPUS called the New Militant, edited by Cannon.

The last occasion in England when a stake was hammered through a sinner ’ s heart at an official burial, took place at the junction of Cable Street and Cannon Street Road: John Williams was found hanged in his cell, after being arrested as a suspect in the Ratcliff Highway murders.

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By 1834, the trading post had grown in popularity and was relocated to the Straight River, one mile ( 1. 6 km ) upstream of its junction with the Cannon River, the site of modern-day Faribault.

It is the site of the ancient London Stone, and of Cannon Street railway station.

* Salcombe B underwater archaeological site identified from Bronze age finds discovered on the Salcombe Cannon Wreck site.

The First Haymarket Theatre or Little Theatre was built in 1720 by John Potter, carpenter, on the site of The King's Head Inn in the Haymarket and a shop in Suffolk Street kept by Isaac Bliburgh, a gunsmith, and known by the sign of the Cannon and Musket.

Cannon atop Pilot Knob aimed at the site of Johnsonville

Although there was a house on the site when the Domesday Survey of 1086 was conducted, Cannon Hall picked up its current name from the 13th-century inhabitant Gilbert Canun.

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The Salcombe Cannon Wreck of the 1630s is a notable site.

Cannon Hill Common covers 21 hectares of open space, and is a site of borough importance – Grade 1 for Nature Conservation.

The site of the Patty Cannon House in Reliance, MD, mid-1930s — Cannon's house was not on this lot ; however, she owned the land on which this house is built.

In April 1873, a local benefactor, Miss Louisa Ann Ryland ( 1814-89 ) of Barford Hill House, Warwickshire, gave of meadow land, known as Cannon Hill Fields, to the Corporation and paid for the draining of the site to create a public park.

In September 1960, the school began holding classes on the current site of Cannon Campus.

Cannon Street station occupies the site now.