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	13th Air Force
		In June 1991, Mount Pinatubo buried Clark in volcanic ash and forced the closure of the base on Nov 26, Thirteenth Air Force relocated to Andersen and officially established its headquarters on Guam on December 2, 1991.
		Thirteenth Air Force is responsible to Pacific Air Forces to plan, execute and control aerospace operations throughout the Southwest Pacific and Indian Ocean area of responsibility.
		Thirteenth Air Force provides the commander-in-chief, Pacific Command, a combat ready, deployable staff to direct joint coalition contingency operations, ensures assigned combat forces are effectively employed and logistically supported, and supports U.S. policies and interests by maintaining military-to-military relationships with regional partners.
	www.zianet.com /jpage/airforce/history/naf/13af.html (760 words)

	Thirteenth Air Force
		Thirteenth Air Force, nicknamed the Jungle Air Force, is responsible to Pacific Air Forces to plan, execute and control aerospace operations throughout the Southwest Pacific and Indian Ocean area of responsibility.
		The 13th Air Force A4 Logistics Directorate is responsible for logistics planning and execution for all USAF activities in the 13th Air Force area of responsibility (AOR), encompassing the South Pacific Ocean, Indian Ocean, and contiguous land areas.
		Thirteenth Air Force assisted in the planning and execution of Operation DESERT STRIKE and is currently tasked as the Joint Task Force for Operation PACIFIC HAVEN (JTF-PH) - the mission to evacuate, process, and relocate Kurdish evacuees to the United States.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/agency/usaf/13af.htm (1238 words)

	Thirteenth Air Force - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Thirteenth Air Force established its headquarters at Clark Field, Philippines, in January 1946.
		The Thirteenth Air Force relocated and officially established its headquarters at Andersen Air Force Base on December 2, 1991.
		In 2005, the Jungle Air Force stood down as a traditional Numbered Air Force and moved to Hickam Air Force Base to assume the role of the new Kenney Warfighting Headquarter for PACAF.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Thirteenth_Air_Force (657 words)

	Seventh Air Force History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Army Air Corps first activated 7 AF on 1 November 1940, as the Hawaiian Air Force, to control the growing number of air units arriving in the Territory of Hawaii that year.
		However, the movement of Far East Air Forces (renamed Pacific Air Forces) from Japan to Hawaii led to the inactivation of 7 AF on 1 July 1957.
		On 8 September 1986, Seventh Air Force activated at Osan Air Base, Republic of Korea, and assumed the mission of maintaining the fragile armistice on the Korean peninsula previously performed by the 314th Air Division.
	www.osan.af.mil /history/7thH.htm (597 words)

	Seventh Air Force
		Air Force personnel fly and maintain the F-16 Falcon and the A/OA-10 Thunderbolt combat aircraft, and perform a myriad of intelligence, logistics, planning, communications, and liaison duties.
		On September 1986, the Air Force activated 7 AF again to assume the duties of maintaining the fragile armistice on the Korean peninsula that the 314 Air Division was responsible for.
		On September 1986, the Air Force activated 7 AF to assume the duties of maintaining the fragile armistice on the Korean peninsula that the 314 Air Division was responsible for.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/agency/usaf/7af.htm (1201 words)

	Numbered Air Forces Index
		Following World War II this air force was involved in air defense and reserve training and concentrated entirely upon air defense in the latter 1960s and again after 1985.
		Assigned to Army Air Forces on September 16, 1943, to Continental Air Forces on April 16, 1945, and to Air Defense Command on March 21, 1946.
		The new air force drew its operational forces from existing air forces in the European and Mediterranean theaters and commenced combat operations the day after it was formed.
	www.maxwell.af.mil /au/afhra/rso/numbered_airforce_index.html (4679 words)

	Thirteenth Air Force (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Thirteenth Air Force was based out of several locations in the Pacific as our military kept island hopping their way to victory.
		Hence the nickname given to the Thirteenth Air Force of "The Jungle Air Force".
		The famous Yamamoto Raid was conducted by pilots of the Thirteenth Air Force, pilots Rex Barber, John Mitchell,
	home.earthlink.net /~bandit726/index.html (118 words)

	5th AAF, June 1944
		Thirteenth Air Task Force B-24s bomb Dublon Island in Truk Atoll and the airfield on Peleliu Island.
		Thirteenth Air Force aircraft still in the Solomon Islands-Bismarck Archipelago area hit Tobera Airfield on New Britain Island and forces on Bougainville Island.
		In New Guinea, Fifth Air Force and RAAF aircraft continue to blast stores, personnel areas, roads, and bridges in the general area of Wewak; B-25s, A-26s, and A-20s hit enemy positions in caves East of Mokmer Airfield, attack shipping in the Babo area (on MacCluer Gulf), and bomb Kamiri and Kornasoren Airfields.
	www.kensmen.com /jun44.html (1237 words)

	5th AAF, May 1944
		In New Guinea, the Wewak-Hansa Bay area is again hit by A-20s, B-24s and fighter-bombers; B-24s and B-25s attack numerous targets in the Wakde-Sawar-Sarmi-Maffin Bay areas and on Biak Island; and HQ 475th Fighter Group and 431st, 432d and 433d Fighter Squadrons move from Nadzab to Hollandia with P-38s.
		Thirteenth Air Task Force B-24s from Los Negros Island bomb supply and bivouac areas on Mariaon and Tagaulap Islands and AA guns on Woleai and Paliau Islands, all in Woleai Atoll.
		Thirteenth Air Task Force B-24s bomb the airfield on Woleai Atoll.
	www.kensmen.com /may44.html (950 words)

	Army Air Forces in World War II
		In Italy, Northwest African Strategic Air Force (NASAF) P-38's bomb and strafe communications targets on the toe of Italy; and bridges at Angitola and N of Locri are attacked.
		In New Guinea, as a result of the air offensive against Wewak and satellite airfields, Japanese airpower on New Guinea is sufficiently neutralized for 4 Allied destroyers to proceed along the coast from Milne Bay to Finschhafen; after bombarding Finschhafen during the night of 22/23 Aug, the warships return to Milne Bay.
		VIII Air Support Command Missions 41 and 42: 216 B-26's are dispatched to Rouen and Mazingarbe power stations; Poix/Nord and Lille/Nord Airfields; and the Hesdin fuel dump; 104 hit the targets; 1 B-26 is lost and 13 damaged; casualties are 5 WIA and 6 MIA.
	www.usaaf.net /chron/43/aug43.htm (11145 words)

	May 1943 - WWII Pacific Chronology
		AMERICAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS (Eleventh Air Force) In the Aleutians, 16 attack missions on Kiska and Attu are flown by 16 B-24's, 15 B-25's, 35 P-38's, 38 P-40's, and 4 F-5A's.
		SOUTHWEST PACIFIC THEATER OF OPERATIONS (Fifth Air Force) The airfield and surrounding areas on Gasmata are hit by A-20's during the night of 20/21 May and by B-17's during the day.
		SOUTHWEST PACIFIC THEATER OF OPERATIONS (Fifth Air Force) B-24's and B-17's hit the harbor and airfield at Kavieng, the airfield at Gasmata, and the village of Ubili.
	www.pacificwrecks.com /60th/today/1943/5-43.html (4698 words)

	Pacific nations enhance airpower cooperation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Gen Edward A. Rice Jr., Kenney Headquarters commander, and Air Vice Marshal Edy Harjoko, Indonesian Air Force, co-hosted the PACRIM Airpower Symposium, held Sept. 4-8 in Jarkarta, Indonesia.
		The symposium endeavored to build and enhance cooperation among the air forces of Pacific nations.
		Co-hosted by the Indonesian Air Force and U.S. Pacific Air Forces' Kenney Headquarters, this year's event included the most participating nations since the series was instituted more than 10 years ago.
	www.pacaf.af.mil /news/story.asp?id=123026663 (292 words)

	Fifth Air Force - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Fifth Air Force (5AF), with headquarters currently located at Yokota Air Base, Japan, is one of very few numbered air forces of the United States Air Force never to have been based in the United States itself.
		In August 1942, under the command of Major General George Kenney, the new Fifth Air Force was organized as a component of the FEAF, with headquarters in Brisbane, Australia.
		The 5AF, along with the Thirteenth Air Force (the other main combat command of the FEAF) devastated Japan's air, land, and sea forces in the South West Pacific Area for the remainder of World War II.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fifth_Air_Force (399 words)

	Asia Pacific Defense Forum Summer 1998 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		William Wieninger, 13th Air Force (13th AF) team chief and Flying Officer Mahfuz, Bangladesh Air Force (BAF), shake hands at the BAF Academy parade ground, during 13th AF's first Cooperative Engagement Program with the BAF.
		The Thirteenth Air Force Cooperative Engagement Program seeks to increase openness and mutual understanding, increase stability in the region, and to foster better working relationships between air forces of the Asia-Pacific region and the U.S., believing these efforts will pay dividends in future exercises or contingency operations.
		During their stay, the team met with senior Bangladesh Air Force (BAF) officers including: Air Commodore Shamsher Ali, BAF Assistant Chief of Air Staff; Air Commodore Khasrul Alam, commander of BAF Air Base Basher; and Air Commodore Rahman, commander of BAF Air Base Matiur Rahman.
	www.pacom.mil /forum/Summer_98/BANGLADE_r.html (596 words)

	Nathan F. Twining (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		When war broke out in Europe he was assigned to the operations division on the Air Staff; then in 1942 he was sent to the South Pacific where he became chief of staff of the Allied air forces in that area.
		When Germany surrendered, Arnold sent Twining back to the Pacific to command the B29s of the Twentieth Air Force in the last push against Japan, but he was there only a short time when the atomic strikes ended the war.
		In addition, McCarley insists on referring to American air doctrine from the 1930s on as "Douhetian." This is incorrect; the tactical school barely knew of his ideas before World War II, and besides, Douhet advocated the destruction of enemy morale by attacking the population directly.
	www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil /airchronicles/cc/twin.html (699 words)

	Air Force Magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		This officer, called with respect and affection by his associates “the toughest man in the Air Force,” was using his pipestem as a pointer, aiming at Hawaii over the east of us, Japan to the north, and back along Korea and down the Asian coast to Okinawa, to Formosa, to Indo-China, and the Philippines.
		His job was to create an air arm, and he trained the first pilots of what was then the Air Force of the Commonwealth Government.
		Not one single Air Force officer I talked to, whatever his rank, but agreed there should be some reorganization which would unshackle their branch of the service from its geographical split in the Pacific sector of the globe.
	www.afa.org /magazine/Dec1955/1255unscramble.asp (2414 words)

	June 1943 - WWII Pacific Chronology
		ALASKA (Eleventh Air Force) Weathered out from Kiska Island in the Aleutian Islands are 3 weather missions flown by 2 B-24's and 2 P-40's, as well as 2 attack missions by 2 B-24's and 6 fighters.
		CHINA (Fourteenth Air Force) In China, 5 P-40's strafe trucks, barracks, and personnel at Tangyang; at least 15 trucks are burned and considerable damage is done to the barracks area.
		CHINA (Fourteenth Air Force) In China, 7 B-25's, with escort of 8 P-40's, bomb the village of Shihshow.
	www.pacificwrecks.com /60th/today/1943/6-43.html (3983 words)

	931st Air Refueling Group - Home
		The 931 SF took over and ran the torch all the way to McConnell Air Force Base, Kan. where the torch was ran through the base and passed off to the Wichita Police Department at the back gate.
		DAVIS-MONTHAN AIR FORCE BASE, Ariz. -- A team of pararescuers from the 943rd Rescue Group's 304th Rescue Squadron are deployed to Mount Hood, Ore., to assist in ongoing rescue efforts there.
		DOBBINS AIR RESERVE BASE, Ga. -- The Air Force announced Dec. 5 that Dobbins ARB and the Atlanta metro region were selected as one of the six locations to host "Air Force Week," Oct. 8-14, 2007.
	www.931arg.afrc.af.mil (1285 words)

	Army Air Forces in World War II
		In mid-January 1943, the headquarters of the Thirteenth Air Force was established at Espiritu Santo in the New Hebrides islands.
		The air forces’ requests for small, mobile hospitals were partly satisfied starting in 1943 when the Army theater SOS agreed to attach several of its “portable surgical hospitals” to the operational control of the Fifth Air Force.
		The Thirteenth Air Force began to use such facilities in late 1944 when it had to close some of its group infirmaries temporarily.
	www.usaaf.net /ww2/medical/mspg8.htm (1794 words)

	Dobbins Air Reserve Base, Ga. - Home
		DOBBINS AIR RESERVE BASE, Ga. -- The United States Air Force announced Dec. 5 that Dobbins Air Reserve Base and the Atlanta metro region were selected as one of the six locations to host "Air Force Week," Oct. 8 - 14, 2007.
		DOBBINS AIR RESERVE BASE, Ga. -- Bringing a wealth of knowledge and experience to the command, Col. Steve Clayton took the reigns of the 94th Operations Group in an assumption of command ceremony Nov. 5.
		McCHORD AIR FORCE BASE, Wash. (AFPN) -- If Staff Sgt. Lara Koler had her 'druthers, she'd be taking hay rides and singing carols with her parents and other relatives during traditional holiday activities in Wendell, Idaho.
	www.dobbins.afrc.af.mil (1217 words)

	Air Force Link (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Kadena Air Base is the hub of airpower in the Pacific, and home to the Air Force’s largest combat wing—the 18th Wing—and a variety of associate units.
		Operating from the Air Force’s largest conventional ammunition storage area, the 18th Munitions Squadron maintains and outloads (by air or sea) PACAF’s war readiness materiel, and provides conventional munitions support to all Team Kadena units.
		In October 1991, as part of an Air Force-wide reorganization, the 313th Air Division inactivated and the newly re-designated 18th Wing absorbed its assets.
	www.kadena.af.mil /facts.htm (1954 words)

	Yap Island
		For more than two weeks prior to the landings, Thirteenth Air Force Liberators, based on Los Negros, had been pounding Truk to neutalize the strategic Japanese base and to prevent the enemy from reinforcing Saipan by air.
		A large Japanese task force, estimated at 40 ships or more, was sighted some distance north of Yap Island, on the 19th of June 1944.
		Liberators of the THirteenth Air Force were called upon to reach out more than 1,000 statute miles from their Los Negros base to hit Japanese warships that might seel refuge or fuel in Yap Harbor.
	www.missingaircrew.com /yap.asp (1766 words)

	Thirteenth Air Force - Home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		We are based in the il2 simulator Pacific Fighters, and fly primarily the aircraft of the real 13th Air Force.
		We have two squadrons that operate out of the 13th Air Force, the Fifth Bomb Group and the Eighteenth Fighter Group.
		Requirements for membership in the 13th Air Force are simple :
	13thaf.net /index.html (90 words)

	Amazon.com: Thirteenth Air Force Story in World War II: Books: Kenn C. Rust (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Thirteenth Air Force Story in World War II (Paperback)
		General Air Force Information — Find general information about the U.S. Air Force.
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	www.amazon.com /Thirteenth-Air-Force-Story-World/dp/0911852905 (444 words)

	The Jungle Air Force - Bibliography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		War than there are about the European Air War.
		it also doesn't mean the other air forces didn't do a tremendous job as
		Air Force Combat Units Of World War II Ed., Maurer, Maurer
	www.enter.net /~rocketeer/13thbibli.html (613 words)

	Antarctica joint task force medevacs two (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Swiss passenger suffered a broken leg, and the ship's helicopter transported her to McMurdo Station.
		The crews and personnel are part of the U.S. Air Force-led joint task force conducting Operation Deep Freeze, a mission that has supported the National Science Foundation and U.S. Antarctic Program since 1955.
		Chip Utterback, also the 13th Air Force commander, stands ready year round for this very reason.
	www.af.mil /news/story.asp?id=123036101 (289 words)

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