Ninth Air Force
After beginning life in the
United States
as a numbered air support command, this establishment became the major tactical
air force
in the European Theater of Operations during
World War II
.
Ninth Air Force
first entered combat in the Mediterranean Theater of Operations, then moved to
R.A.F Burtonwood
,
England
in
1943
. Following the war, Ninth Air Force served as one of the tactical air forces of Tactical Air Command. Presently assigned to
Air Combat Command
, Ninth Air Force also serves as the Air Force component to the
United States Central Command
. It is headquartered at
Shaw Air Force Base
in
Sumter, South Carolina
.
Commands During World War II
IX Bomber Command
1942-45
IX Air Defense Command
1944-45
IX Fighter Command
1942-45
IX Tactical Air Command
1943-45
IX Troop Carrier Command
1943-44
XIX Tactical Air Command
1944-45
XXIX Tactical Air Command
1945
External links
9th Air Force web site
GlobalSecurity.org 9th Air Force info page
<< Previous
Word Browser
Next >>
edward palmer
chris taylor (game designer)
welcome
cap hatien
cunedda
george fox university
500 (number)
ceredig
cherepovets
lord sempill
thit jensen
vesyegonsk
valentinius
lyubim
samuel hoar
lord sinclair
first air force
second air force
third air force
oprichnik
fourth air force
fifth air force
buy, russia
seventh air force
eighth air force
strait of tiquina
tenth air force
rus' (people)
george coles
basil brooke, 1st viscount brookeborough
eleventh air force
twelfth air force
chlodomer
thirteenth air force
fourteenth air force
fifteenth air force
sixteenth air force
eighteenth air force
nineteenth air force
brian clevinger
twentieth air force
twenty first air force
twenty second air force
louis iii of east francia
Copyright 2005-2009 OnPedia.com. All Rights Reserved