Fourteenth Air Force
On 1 July 1993, 14 AF returned to its former space role and became a Numbered Air Force for Air Force Space Command, responsible for performing space operations. In 1997, 14 AF established the Space Operations Center at Vandenberg AFB in California for the 24-hour command and control of all space operations resources. In 2002, 14 AF became the Air Force space operational component of United States Strategic Command.
In 2005, 14 AF officially opened up its newly renovated operations center. The new command and control capabilities of the Joint Space Operations Center ensured unity of effort for all space capabilities supporting joint military operations around the globe.
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See also
- South-East Asian Theatre of World War II
- Burma Campaign
- Operation Ichi-Go
- RAF Third Tactical Air Force
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References
- Maurer, Maurer "Air Force Combat Units of World War II", Pub USAF, Reprinted 1986 (first pub 1961)
- Fourteenth Air Force official website
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External links
- Annals of the Flying Tigers
- Fourteenth Air Force in China 1943 - 1945
- 14th Air Force
- Night Fighter by J R Smith - a first-hand account of a P-61 radar observer in WWII China
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Footnotes
- ^ Fourteenth Air Force official website
- ^ a b c Air Force Combat Units of World War II - Part 8 See References Maurer
- ^ Fourteenth Airforce History Information presented on DefenseLINK is considered public information and may be distributed or copied unless otherwise specified
- ^ Wing to Wing Air Combat in China, 1943 - 1945, Molesworth, Carl Orion Books, New York 1990 ISBN0-517-57568-X
- ^ a Transferred from the Tenth Air Force
- ^ The 341st Bomb Group usually functioned as if it were two groups and for a time as three. Soon after its activation in September 1942, 341st Bomb Group Headquarters and three of its squadrons the 22nd, 490th and 491st, and were stationed and operating in India under direction of the Tenth Air Force, while the 11th squadron was stationed and operating in China under direction of the "China Air Task Force", which was later reorganized and reinforced to become the Fourteenth Air Force. Fourteen months later the Group Headquarters along with 22nd and the 491st squadrons joined the 11th squadron under the command of the Fourteenth Air Force. However most of the 490th "Burma Bridge Busters" remained under the command of Major-General Howard Davidson's Tenth Air Force. Still later the 11th Squadron and a detachment of the 491st operated for a time under the East China Task Force.
- ^ Life and Times of the 341st Bomb Group: Forward
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