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Andersen Air Force Base

United States Air Force base in Guam.

History

Andersen Air Force Base (Andersen AFB, AAFB) (IATA: UAM, ICAO: PGUA, FAA LID: UAM) is a United States Air Force base located primarily within the village of Yigo in the United States territory of Guam. The host unit at Andersen AFB is the 36th Wing (36 WG), assigned to the Pacific Air Forces Eleventh Air Force. As a non-flying wing, the 36 WG's mission is to provide support to deployed air and space forces of USAF, foreign air forces to Andersen, and tenant units assigned to the base.

Andersen AFB was placed under the installation management authority of Joint Region Marianas in October 2009, along with Naval Base Guam. The two bases are about 30 miles (48 km) apart at opposite ends of the island. Established in 1944 after the Liberation of Guam as North Field, it is named for Brigadier General James Roy Andersen (1904–1945).

The most important U.S. air base west of Hawaii, Andersen is one of the four Air Force Bomber Forward Operating Locations and the only base in the Western Pacific that can permanently service U.S. heavy strategic bombers, including B-1B, B-2, and B-52 bombers. Andersen is one of two critical bases in the Asia-Pacific region, the other being Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean. Due to Guam's almost unrestricted airspace and the close proximity of Farallon de Medinilla Island, a naval bombing range 184 miles (296 km) north, the base is in an ideal training location.

Text from Wikipedia: Andersen Air Force Base, CC BY-SA 4.0, lightly trimmed.

Key dates

  1. 1944
    Andersen Air Force Base was established on 3 December 1944, and is named for Brigadier General James Roy Andersen (1904–1945).
  2. 1944
    Established as North Field, December 1944 (station became operational on 3 February 1945)
  3. 1945
    The 314th arrived in Guam on 16 January 1945 from Peterson Field, Colorado.
  4. 1948
    The 19th Bombardment Wing (BW) was formed at North AFB in 1948 from the resources of the former North Guam Air Force Base Command (Provisional).
  5. 1953
    With decreased hostility in Korea, the 19th BW headquarters was relocated to Kadena Air Base, Okinawa in 1953 and was replaced by the 6319th Air Base Wing of the Far East Air Forces (FEAF).
  6. 1966
    In support of Operation Arc Light, SAC activated the 4133rd Bombardment Wing (Provisional) on 1 February 1966.
  7. 1973
    A ceasefire came into effect in Vietnam on 27 January 1973.
  8. 1994
    The host unit was changed on 1 October 1994, when the 633rd Air Base Wing was inactivated.
  9. 2008
    On 21 July 2008, a B-52 crashed into the sea while on a training mission that was to fly over a parade in Guam commemorating the U.S. liberation of the island from Japanese occupation in 1944.

Dates and events quoted from the same Wikipedia article (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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