MAIDUGURI, Nigeria- Hundreds of Islamic militants in trucks and a stolen armored personnel carrier attacked an air force base and international airport on the outskirts of a Nigerian city before dawn Monday, officials and witnesses said, possibly leaving scores of people dead in one of the insurg...
of the attack, it would be good to have fighters on the wing to go ahead and take care of us." At this point, Tillman said that the plan to fly the president back to Washington, D.C., was aborted due to concerns that Air Force One would be attacked at Andrews Air Force Base. ...
It centers on the primary efforts of the United States Air Force and allied air units to defend 10 key air bases within the Republic of Vietnam. Bien Hoa, on 1 November 1964, was the first base to be attacked and until the cease-fire in January 1973, these bases suffered a total of...
air base- a base for military aircraft air station base,base of operations- installation from which a military force initiates operations; "the attack wiped out our forward bases" armed forces,armed services,military,military machine,war machine- the military forces of a nation; "their military ...
COLOMBO, March 26 -- A major base of the Sri Lankan Air Force, some 30 km north of the island country's capital Colombo, was attacked by suspected aircraft of Tamil Tigers early Monday morning, defense officials said. The Katunayake air b ...
The report comes a few hours after explosions were heard in the city of Qahjavarestan, close to Isfahan's International Airport and an air force base. Abdolrahim Mousavi, commander-in-chief of the Islamic Republic of Iran Army, said the "suspicious flying objects" were intercepted and cause...
Whiteman Air Force Base is located in Johnson County, Missouri, 65 miles southeast of Kansas City. The base is two miles south of Knob Noster, just off U.S. Highway 50. Whiteman is about 10 miles east of Warrensburg and 20 miles west of Sedalia. The base had it beginnings in 1942...
By December 1941, the .Hawaiian Air Force had been an integrated command for slightly more than one year and consisted of 754 officers and 6,706 enlisted men, with 233 aircraft assigned at its three primary bases (Hickam, Wheeler, and Bellows). When the Japanese attacked Oahu's military ...
The Swiss Air Force (German language: Schweizer Luftwaffe; French; Italian language: Forze aeree svizzere Romansh language Aviatica militara svizra) is the air component of the Swiss Armed Forces, established on 31 July 1914 as part of the army and in Oc
The Raid on Anuradhapura Air Force Base, code-named Operation Ellaalan, was an successful commando raid conducted on SLAF Anuradhapura an Air Force Base in Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. The attack happened on the 22nd October 2007. At 3:15 AM a group of ...