Almost immediately upon landing, the 48 SEALs came under withering fire from the PDF stationed at the airfield.

Training at the airfield came to a halt on 14 August 1945, when the Japanese unconditionally surrendered.

( Note: The Machesney Elementary School across from where the airport was also got named after Fred Machesney's airport ) The airfield was Rockford's main airport until the 1950s, when the Greater Rockford airport came on line.

True to their word, Transport Canada launched an ambitious program of land acquisition and airfield construction and in November of 1977 the terminal building that we see today opened, and with it came the modern age of aviation.

Inspired by this, Nishizawa came up with the idea of doing demonstration loops over the enemy airfield.

The following day, a lone allied bomber came roaring over the Lae airfield and dropped a note attached to a long ribbon of cloth.

In 1941, the airport came under formal military control and an immediate construction program began to turn the civil airport into a military airfield.

Ultimately, the presence of Vichy France in North Africa as an ally of the Germans came to an end ( ironically ) on Armistice Day, 11 November 1942, when General Noguès, the commander-in-chief of the Vichy armed forces, requested a ceasefire ; that did not stop a unit of U. S. Navy aircraft from attacking the airfield at Marrakech and destroying several French aircraft, apparently on the initiative of the unit ’ s commander.

It came about 05: 00 in the morning, but no origin for its flight could be found at any Luzon airfield.

Chkalov apparently miscalculated his landing approach and came in short of the airfield, but when he attempted to correct his approach the engine cut out.

The final straw for Grimlock came when he and the Dinobots were injured in a Decepticon trap at an airfield.

Following its initial success on the first day, the 21st Brigade began the advance east, capturing an airfield at Seppinggang and crossing the Batakan Ketjil river where they came up against a strong Japanese force on 3 July.

Once the airport came under military control an immediate construction program began to turn the civil airport into a military airfield.

Built in 1959 in Styria, the idea for the track came from the United Kingdom's success at Silverstone Circuit, also built on the site of an airfield.

CIA support of the Permesta rebels came in the form of 15 B-26 bombers which formed the insurgent airforce AUREV ( Angkatan Udara Revolusioner ) based on Manado airfield, large amounts of weapons and equipment, significant funds, plus an international cast of CIA agents and mercenaries from Taiwan, Poland, the Philippines and the USA.

With the collapse of the Reich the airfield was captured by the US Army in April 1945, being subsequently handed over to the Soviets in July, when the area came under Soviet control following the post-war territorial settlement between the Allies.

The airfield came under Royal Air Force control at the outbreak of the Second World War.

The Allies overwhelmed the outnumbered Japanese defenders, who had occupied the islands since May 1942, and captured Tulagi and Florida, as well as an airfield ( later named Henderson Field ) that was under construction on Guadalcanal.

The airfield at Lunga Point on Guadalcanal under construction by Japanese and conscripted Korean laborers in July 1942.

The Japanese naval construction units and combat troops, under the command of Captain Kanae Monzen, panicked by the warship bombardment and aerial bombing, had abandoned the airfield area and fled about west to the Matanikau River and Point Cruz area, leaving behind food, supplies, intact construction equipment and vehicles, and 13 dead.

In 1976, under the command of Brigadier General Ernest R. Reid, Jr., work began to add an expeditionary airfield to the base's growing infrastructure.

The Malden Municipal Airport was an Army airfield and then an Air Force base from 1942 to 1960, as operated by the military and then under civilian contracts.

On 16 October 1946, the 234th AAFBU was inactivated and on 1 November 1946, the airfield was placed under administrative control of Colorado Springs Army Air Base, Colorado.

The 18 / 36 grass runway had disappeared under a land fill, while 06 / 24 had effectively become a taxiway. To remain a viable airport it was necessary to update airfield services, and achieve CAT3 status.

It then meets a roundabout with access for the new Berryfields development as well as Aylesbury Vale Parkway before passing under a railway line, then through Waddesdon, then passes close to Westcott near the former airfield of RAF Westcott.

In February 1947 the airfield was opened as Blackbushe Airport under the control of the Ministry of Civil Aviation.

Galland nursed his crippled Me 262 to the airfield, only to find it was under attack by more P-47s.

RAF forces set a headquarters in Bangkok, at Don Muang airfield, under Group Captain D O Finlay on 9 September 1945.

When the war ended the airfield still remained under military control, but by the late 1940s the first commercial services were launched.

The City of Savannah acquired a 600 acre tract in the vicinity of Cherokee Hill, one of the highest elevations in the county, and construction of a new airfield commenced under a WPA project.

On 5 July 1942, during World War II, the airport was commandeered by the United States Army Air Forces and used as a contract primary pilot training airfield under the AAF Gulf Coast Training Center ( later Central Flying Training Command ).

Grant Heights had been Narimasu airfield under the Imperial Japanese Army until the end of World War II.

The initial Allied landings captured an airfield, later called Henderson Field by the Allies, that was under construction by the Japanese.

There a Ranger force would seize the airfield to permit C-141 transports to land in advance of the rescue to transport the contingent from Iran under the protection of fighter planes.

The majority of the force attacked the main fort, while a troop from T patrol under Lieutenant Ballantyne engaged the airfield defences, destroying three Caproni aircraft and capturing a number of prisoners.

Allied forces, primarily from the U. S., had landed on Guadalcanal on 7 August 1942 and seized an airfield, later called Henderson Field, that was under construction by the Japanese military.

By nightfall on 8 August, the 11, 000 Allied troops secured Tulagi, the nearby small islands, and a Japanese airfield under construction at Lunga Point on Guadalcanal ( later renamed Henderson Field ).

Informed by the British that the situation in Imphal was under control, Stilwell wanted to launch a final assault to capture the Japanese airfield at Myitkyina.

A 10-year-old Chinese soldier from a unit of the Chinese Army in India | X Force, placed under Merrill and Charles N. Hunter's command, after the capture of the Myitkyina airfield.

The airfield near Žatec had been put at disposal of the Haganah by a new Czechoslovak foreign minister Vladimír Clementis ( a prominent Slovak member of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia ) and was under the command of Yehuda Ben Chorin.

Strategic Air Command began deploying Boeing B-52 Stratofortress bombers and aerial refueling aircraft to the newly completed airfield facilities in 1987.

Until 1991, Blytheville was home to Blytheville Air Force Base later renamed to Eaker Air Force Base, a major airfield that was part of the Strategic Air Command.

During the Cold War of the early and middle 1950s, the airfield was reopened as Nouasseur Air Base and was used as a United States Air Force Strategic Air Command staging area for B-47 Stratojet bombers pointed at the Soviet Union.

The United States Air Force built a new runway, which was the longest in the north of England, and a huge rectangular hardstanding apron as well as a new control tower to turn Elvington into a " Basic Operation Platform " which would have operated as a Strategic Air Command ( SAC ) dispersal airfield.

Up until 1980, Strategic Air Command considered retaining the former SAC Alert Facility on the south end of the airfield as either an Operating Location ( OL ) or as a smaller installation to be called McCoy Air Force Station under control of an air base squadron for occasional dispersal basing of two B-52D / G / H and two KC-135A / E / Q aircraft from other SAC installations.

The facility was transferred from RAF control to the Strategic Air Command in the mid 1950s, and the airfield was almost totally rebuilt.

It was activated during World War II as a troop carrier training airfield, and was a front-line Strategic Air Command ( SAC ) base during the Cold War.

* USAAF Station # 547 Abbots Ripton, home of 2nd Strategic Air Depot is now the current-day active portion of RAF Alconbury, the former airfield part of Alconbury being the World War II Alconbury Airdrome.