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Biancur Field, Eglin Auxiliary Field # 6, was named for 1st Lt Andrew Biancur, USAAF, a test pilot of the Medium Bombardment Section of the 1st Proving Ground Group, killed in crash of a prototype YP-61-NO Black Widow, AAF Ser.
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: Eglin AFB Auxiliary Field # 6 ( Biancur Field ) is the site of Camp James E. Rudder and the home of the U. S. Army ’ s 6th Ranger Training Battalion.
* Auxiliary Field 6 ( Biancur Field )
: Auxiliary Field 6 is named Biancur Field for 1st Lt. Andrew Biancur, a test pilot of the Medium Bombardment Section of the 1st Proving Ground Group, killed 8 January 1944 in the crash of YP-61-NO Black Widow, 41-18883, c / n 711, at Eglin Field.
The camp is located on the Eglin Air Force Base reservation, co-located with Eglin AFB Auxiliary Field # 6 / Biancur Field, approximately fourteen miles northwest of the main Eglin AFB airfield.
Biancur Field, as Eglin AFB Aux Field # 6, remains the airfield portion of Camp Rudder and was previously used by the U. S. Navy's Training Squadron 4 ( TRARON 4 or VT-4 ) at nearby Naval Air Station Pensacola in the early 1960s for strike pilot training.
The squadron aircraft were T2J Buckeyes and Biancur was used for Field Carrier Landing Practice ( FCLP ) touch-and-go landings before student pilots were allowed to land on board the training carrier of the period, the USS Antietam ( CV-36 ).
Meals for the sailors on TAD ( Temporary Assigned Duty ) at Biancur were supplied by the U. S. Army Rangers at Field 7.
With the Navy's departure, all Biancur Field operations passed over to the Army.
Field and Eglin
* 1980 – Demonstration flight of a secretly modified C-130 for an Iran hostage crisis rescue attempt ends in crash landing at Eglin Air Force Base's Duke Field, Florida leading to cancellation of Operation Credible Sport.
Fort Walton Beach and three United States Air Force bases, ( Duke Field in the North and Eglin AFB and Hurlburt Field are in the south ).
This fast-growing region serves primarily as " bedroom communities " for Pensacola to the west and Hurlburt Field, Fort Walton Beach, and Eglin Air Force Base to the east.
It is named in honor of Lieutenant Colonel Frederick I. Eglin ( 1891 – 1937 ), who was killed in a crash of his Northrop A-17 pursuit aircraft on a flight from Langley to Maxwell Field, Alabama.
: The 919 SOW, located about five miles ( 8 kilometers ) south of Crestview and from Eglin main at Eglin AFB Auxiliary Field # 3 ( Duke Field ) and is the only special operations wing in the Air Force Reserve Command ( AFRC ).
The 1st Experimental Guided Missiles Group was activated at Eglin Field, Florida, on 6 February 1946, operating out of Auxiliary Field 3.
* Eglin Field, 4 August 1937
* Eglin Field Military Reservation, 1 October 1940
* Eglin Field, 28 December 1944
* Section V, Eglin Field Section, 13th Air Base Squadron, 1 Sep 1936
Auxiliary Field 1 is named Wagner Field for Maj. Walter J. Wagner, former commanding officer for the 1st Proving Ground, Eglin Field, who was killed 10 October 1943 in the crash of AT-6C-NT Texan, 41-32187, c / n 88-9677, at Auxiliary Field 2.
He was assigned as Assistant A-3 of Eglin Field.
Field and Auxiliary
Marine Corps Auxiliary Landing Field Bogue is located in the western section of Carteret County along Bouge Sound.
A local unit of the U. S. Air Force Auxiliary, the Civil Air Patrol, also conducts operations out of Hulman Field.
* Auxiliary Field 1 ( Wagner Field )
: Work on Auxiliary Field 1 began 27 November 1940.
* Auxiliary Field 2 ( Pierce Field )
: Auxiliary Field 2 is named Pierce Field for Lt. Col. George E. Pierce, killed 19 January 1942 while piloting B-25C-1 Mitchell, 41-13118, which crashed into the Gulf of Mexico S of Destin, Florida.
* Auxiliary Field 3 ( Duke Field )
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# Field Marshal ( Abbreviated: FM ) – O11.
# Field Marshal Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig of Britain,
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# Managing the Voluntary Fund for Technical Cooperation in the Field of Human Rights ;
# Flag Field.
# Address Field.
# Information Field.
# Frame Check Sequence ( FCS ) Field.
# Janez Strnad, Homogeno gravitacijsko polje: med posebno in splošno teorijo relativnosti ( Homogeneous Gravitational Field: Between Special and General Theory of relativity ), ( DMFA S, Ljubljana 1994, pp 44 ).
# Field Headquarters of the Defence
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Ashford was ranked # 1 in the world by Track & Field News over 100 metres in 1979 and 1981, and over 200 metres in 1981.
Ashford, unsurprisingly, regained her # 1 Track & Field News ranking.
On May 30, 1985 she gave birth to her daughter Raina Ashley Washington, and again came back for an excellent 1986, losing only once over both the 100 m and 200 m and earning another # 1 ranking by Track & Field News over the shorter distance.
) A half-century later, a 13-Cent commemorative stamp ( Scott # 1710 ) depicting the Spirit flying low over the Atlantic Ocean was issued on May 20, 1977, the 50th anniversary of the flight from Roosevelt Field.
* Duke Field ( Eglin AFB Auxiliary Field # 3 )
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