Their orders were to attack enemy airfields and harass the Germans in any way possible.
It might have to include scores of targets like radar installations, airfields and missile sites.
If Turkey doesn't budge, American armour could be flown in to airfields in northern Iraq.
He feels buyers may have been influenced by reports of thousands of unsold saloons parked on airfields.
The Americans may be thinking of storing weapons in the region and of having access to airfields.
Other coalition forces captured airfields in western Iraq and were airlifted into Iraqi Kurdistan, north of Baghdad.
Among other things, it publicly allowed the U.S. Navy and Air Force to use its ports and airfields.
The club said it had now moved to "one of the most beautifully located airfields in the UK".
Mr Cundall said he expected the search to include three different airfields and to last about six weeks.
The scheme saw engineer regiments construct airfields as part of the soldiers' training using materials supplied by local authorities.
Our Air Force will rotate additional aircraft through more airfields in Northern Australia.
America has obtained permission for its military aircraft to fly over Kazakhstan and to use Kazakh airfields for stopovers.
That will probably mean keeping bombers at the airfields in Timbuktu and Sevare.
In 1971, the Pakistani air force attacked Indian airfields and Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi declared a state of emergency.
It will require further contraction of military bases, ports, airfields and depots and the defense industrial base and its suppliers.
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The Airfields of Britain Conservation Trust (ABCT) said the monuments would acknowledge the locations as heritage sites and highlight their contribution.
"Jet aircraft had just started to come in and there were a dozen airfields around Somerset in daily use, " he said.
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Six former airfields in Cumbria are to be commemorated with granite memorials.
Blocked roads and bridges, lack of rail and small upcountry airfields, coupled with rain and snow, made swift access impossible except by helicopter.
He said Somerset has such a history as there are many airfields and they happened at a time when planes were new and untested.
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VLJs are mostly confined to the large number of underused airports and airfields in America, Ms Blakey believes they will provide valuable growth opportunities.
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It will be able to carry military payloads non-stop from Europe to military, commercial, or remote airfields in central Africa or the Middle East.
The FAA targeted airfields with fewer than 150, 000 operations -- an operation is a takeoff or landing -- or 10, 000 commercial operations in a year.
One of the armed forces' oldest airfields could be sold to private investors under plans being considered to help the MoD cope with budget cuts.
NATO's experts work out their contingency plans (no-fly zones, electronic warfare, air strikes against airfields, communications and air-defence systems), their political masters face an equally tricky set of problems.
The Camp Bastion complex, near the large U.S. Camp Leatherneck, is one of the busiest airfields in the world, with more than 28, 000 people working on site, according to the UK Ministry of Defense.
It started on the ground with seizures of airfields in the west of Iraq -- to prevent their use as launch pads for Scud missiles -- and of oil fields, to prevent them from being ignited.
"The airfields aren't permanently destroyed, " Rumsfeld added.
Duty later called Safferstein to the Mariana Islands in the western Pacific, where U.S. forces had built airfields to launch long-range raids on Japan itself, and in mid-1945 the two bombs from Los Alamos had been secretly delivered by Navy ship.
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