As 1941 ended, the appearance of the new Fw 190, with its obvious technical superiority over the current Spitfire Mark V, would make Fighter Command's job that much harder in 1942.

He served over two years as the Deputy Chief, Space Control Operations Division in Cheyenne Mountain Air Force Base and, after promotion to the rank of Captain in June 1989, became the Command's Deputy Director for Space Control at Peterson Air Force Base.

In 1944, after the WASPs were disbanded, Love continued to work on the Air Transport Command's Report.

The Training and Doctrine Command's annual Drill Sergeant of the Year award is named after Ailes.

Except for the island of Sumatra, the Dutch East Indies were also outside South East Asia Command's area of responsibility until after the Japanese surrender.

The main threat from the Soviets in the Atlantic came from the Soviet Northern Fleet and in early 1965 most of the Command's units were concentrated in No. 18 Group RAF, based in Scotland to monitor their activities.

* Damned Good Show ( 2002 ) covers RAF Bomber Command's early bomber operations and has fictional No. 409 Squadron RAF flying the Handley Page Hampden.

The role of these aircraft is to augment the Air Mobility Command's long-range intertheater C-5s and C-17s during periods of increased airlift needs, from minor contingencies up through full national defense emergencies.

For example during the Coventry Blitz on the night of 14 / 15 November 1940, 515 Luftwaffe bombers many flying more than one sortie against Coventry delivered their bombs in a raid that lasted more than 10 hours, while in contrast the much more devastating raid on Dresden on the night of 13 / 14 of February 1945 by the two waves of the RAF Bomber Command's main force, the first wave released their first bomb at 22: 14, with all but one of the 254 Lancaster bombers releasing their bombs within two minutes, and the last one releasing at 22: 22.

Task Force 63 and Military Sealift Command's Sealift Logistics Command ( SEALOGEUR ) are two separately named formations that actually operate as a unified one with one staff.

The base is operated by the 375th Air Mobility Wing ( 375 AMW ) and is also home to the Air Force Reserve Command's 932d Airlift Wing ( 932 AW ) and the Illinois Air National Guard's 126th Air Refueling Wing ( 126 ARW ), the latter two units being operationally gained by the US Air Force's Air Mobility Command ( AMC ).

Josiah Tungamirai, the ZANLA High Command's political commissar relates that on the night of the fatality, he and Tongogara had been travelling with others in two vehicles from Maputo to Chimoio.

Josiah Tungamirai, the ZANLA High Command's political commissar, relates that on the night of the fatality, he and Tongogara had been travelling with others in two vehicles from Maputo to Chimoio.

The rest were operated by two squadrons of Bomber Command's No. 100 Group RAF at RAF Sculthorpe from February 1944, where they were used to carry electronic countermeasures to confuse and jam enemy radar in support of bombing missions.

He has commanded the 21st Air Force at McGuire Air Force Base, New Jersey ; the Air Mobility Command's Tanker Airlift Control Center ; two airlift wings and a maintenance squadron.

Late in the night of June 27, 2005, two MH-47 Special Operations Aircraft of the Army Special Operations Command's 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment ( Airborne ) ( SOAR ( A )) approached Sawtalo Sar.

To inject more realism into the training, ATC made arrangements with Strategic Air Command to allow instructor pilots to fly intercept missions against SAC bombers with F-86D ( later L ) Sabre, With the addition of interceptor crew training and the acquisition of interceptor aircraft, HQ USAF decided effective 20 October 1953 to assign ATC responsibility for supporting Air Defense Command's interceptor forces.

Command's position was that the snipers could be of more assistance by continuing to provide air cover.

Command's position was that the snipers could be of more assistance by providing air cover.

A historic seaport and popular summer tourist destination, Portsmouth is served by Portsmouth International Airport at Pease, formerly the Strategic Air Command's Pease Air Force Base.

The station was built within the grounds of Hillingdon House, a 19th century mansion bought by the British Government in 1915, and became most famous for being the home of RAF Fighter Command's No. 11 Group Operations Room during the Battle of Britain.

The railroad discontinued its use of the town's depot by the 1950s, but that time also saw the opening of Thomasville's FPS-35 radar base, part of the Air Defense Command's Semi Automatic Ground Environment ( SAGE ) system, bringing in servicemen and their families.

In reality, the Normandy landings were the main attempt at establishing a beachhead, made easier by the German Command's reluctance to commit its armies.

During the Dambuster Raids Royal Air Force missions in May 1943, the RAF Bomber Command's No. 5 Group and the operation HQ was in St Vincents, a building which was later owned by Aveling-Barford and housed a district council planning department.

As the Navy's activities began to be shifted to Los Alamitos the Long Beach Army Airfield at Long Beach became the home of the Army's Air Transport Command's Ferrying Division, which included a squadron of 18 women pilots commanded by Barbara London, a long time Long Beach aviatrix.

Morison's legacy is also sustained by the United States Naval History and Heritage Command's Samuel Eliot Morison Naval History Scholarship.

Bomber Command used not only British aircraft but also American-built machines such as the B-17 Flying Fortress and B-24 Liberator ( although less than 2 % of Bomber Command's wartime sorties were flown by US-built aircraft ); in the case of the former they were the first to be put into battle and gave useful information on improvements before the US entered the war.

The Big Wing contrasted with the tactics used by Air Vice-Marshal Keith Park, the commanding officer of Fighter Command's 11 Group, which was taking the brunt of the Luftwaffe attacks.

The Duxford Big Wing was not an organised and rehearsed military unit, merely an ad-hoc collection of squadrons led by one of Fighter Command's less experienced squadron leaders.

In 1940 ( and arguably the whole war ) Bomber Command was in no way capable of delivering a knock out blow to Germany so the pro bomber advocates were severely embarrassed by Fighter Command's success.

A prolonged offensive against the Rhine-Ruhr area ( nicknamed " Happy Valley " by aircrew ) began on the night of 5 / 6 March 1943 with the first raid of the Battle of the Ruhr flew RAF Bomber Command's 100, 000th sortie of the Second World War which

A plaque was presented by the USAAF Troop Carrier units commemorating the IX Troop Carrier Command's stay at Cottesmore and it can still be seen outside the Station HQ.

This was ameliorated, to a certain degree, by High Command's decision to incorporate all Romanian forces in the southwest of the Soviet Union into the Third Army.

At the start of the war RAF Bomber Command's doctrine was based on tight formations of heavily armed bombers attacking during daylight and fending off attacks by fighters with their defensive guns.

Due to the new Defence agreement 2005-2009, significant changes are to take place in FBT, which is to eventually evolve into a new " Defence Construction and Establishment Service " (), short " FBE ", by incorporating some decentralized departments located out by the Military regiments, as well as the Defence Command's infrastructure department, into FBT, for a more streamlined organization.

While the majority of American merchant mariners are employed by shipping businesses and accordingly wear either uniforms prescribed by their employers or civilian attire, some officers receive commissions in the United States Maritime Service for federal government duty, such as the faculty of the United States Merchant Marine Academy and the Military Sealift Command's civilian officers manning non-commissioned United States Naval Ships.

For example, No. 6 Group, which represented about one-sixth of Bomber Command's strength, was a Royal Canadian Air Force unit.

The No 106 Group was assigned to the Coastal Command's Photo Reconnaissance assets with the whole of Northern Europe as its operational area.

With the withdrawal of British forces announced in 1968, Singapore bought the entire Bloodhound assets of the No. 65 Squadron and established the Singapore Air Defence Command's 170 Squadron.

From July 1940, Duxford saw considerable action during the Battle of Britain as a sector station of RAF Fighter Command's No. 12 Group.

In 1944 Miller, by then an air commodore, was posted to England and on September 19 he took up command of RAF Bomber Command's No. 61 Base in North Yorkshire.

No. 141 Squadron transferred to No. 100 Group Bomber Command in late 1943 and during the Battle of Berlin on the night of 16 / 17 December, a Mosquito crewed by Squadron Leader F. F. Lambert and Flying Officer K. Dear made Bomber Command's first successful Serrate-guided operational sortie when they damaged a Bf 110 with cannon-fire.