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More than 250 Airmen and pilots flying fourteen F-16 Fighting Falcons from the 510th Fighter Squadron returned to Aviano AB, Italy, on 27 March after more than three weeks of training at Zaragoza AB, Spain. The purpose of the training was to build coalition partnerships with North Atlantic Treaty Organization allies and accomplish critical flight training. While in Spain, the 510th FS pilots completed air-to-air training mission against Spanish EF-18 Hornets and EF-2000 Eurofighters and performed air-to-ground missions such as basic surface attacks, close air support, and large force employment.
Warmly inscribed by the author to the son of one of the subject pilots. Compelling account of the 9th U.S. Air Force over France during World War II. Color and black & white illustrations & photos throughout.
Title: A Stormy Sky Over Normandy: Summer 1944
Author: Remy Chuinard
Publisher: By Author
Place: Granville, France
Date: 2000
ISBN: 2951396317
Edition: First U.S. Edition
The 405th Fighter group detailed, from its inception to its inactivation as a Dive Bombardment group, tracing its day-to-day activities in the European Theater with the U.S. Ninth Air Force. Pilots' personal accounts of their daily struggle to provide tactical air support to the ground forces. Over 250 photos.
Title: Thunder Monsters over Europe
Author: Reginald G. Nolte
Paperback: 160 pages
Publisher: Sunflower University Press
Date: December 2000
ISBN: 0897450752
Jenkins' Jerry Junkers: The WWII Fighter Squadron
Written by David SarvaiOn the following pages is a capsule history of the 510th Fighter Squadron, 405th Fighter-Bomber Group, during the crucial period of World War Two (WWII) from the spring of 1943 to the collapse of Hitler's Nazi Germany. It is a record of the dedication, courage, and sacrifice of those who were the soul, heart and muscle of one of the finest combat units of the European Theatre.
Only Angels Have Wings tells the story of the author growing up during the depression, his burning desire to become a pilot and the realization of that dream when he joins the U.S Army Air Corps. During WWII he was shot down, evaded capture and joined a French Marquis Group. While participating in a raid against Germans he was captured. He later made a daring escape and joined another Marquis Group where he devised a plan to successfully liberate two French Cities. After 50 years he managed to locate and visit members of the French Resistance group he was with.
Title: Only Angels Have Wings
Author: Arlie J. Blood
Publisher: Arlie J. Blood
Date: April 12, 1997
ISBN: 0965801608
Hardcover: 234 pages
Langley Air Force Base - 1954. This yearbook was loaned to us by Mrs. Jeanette Turner Bean of Arlington VA. She received the book while stationed at Langley AFB as A2c Turner, WAF.
This book details the daily life of the Air Force Personnel at Langley during the Post WWII era.
Title: 405th Fighter Group
Date: 1954
Hardcover: Approx. 200 pages
Pilots of the 510th Fighter Squadron and Germany's Jagdgeschwader 73 train as adversaries but relax as friends. This deployment was the first large-scale encounter with the MiG-29 Fulcrum for the US Air Force.
The 31st Fighter Wing from Aviano Air Base in Italy led the largest air raids in Europe since World War II in the summer of 1995. Aircraft from the wing and from other coalition forces inflicted heavy damage on key Bosnian Serb targets. During Operation Deliberate Force, as the NATO-led bombing offensive of August and September was called, F-16 pilots of the 31st Wing's 510th and 555th Fighter Squadrons flew as part of large strike packages with US Navy and Marine Corps pilots as well as with British, French, Dutch, German, Italian, and Turkish aircrews.
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Visitors to the 31st Fighter Wing at Aviano Air Base in Italy are treated to what amounts to an international air show year-round. Ramps and shelters display a wide variety of aircraft from numerous countries, including Britain, Canada, Germany, Italy, and Spain. F-16s reside permanently at the wing's 510th and 555th Fighter Squadrons. USAFE expeditionary forces, consisting of A-10s from Spangdahlem, Germany, and F-15Es from Lakenheath, England, visit Aviano. The wing hosted a group of Portuguese F-16s last December. The US Marines have a contingent of EA-6B radar jamming aircraft at the base. And F-16s visit from Air National Guard and USAF Reserve units in the United States as rotations allow.
Airborne Forward Air Controllers, AFACs as they are called, are usually thought of as spotters in low-flying and slow-moving aircraft. That flight regime seems appropriate for identifying ground targets for other aircraft. The Air Force tried using fast-flying aircraft, the F-100 and F-4 in particular, as airborne controllers for a short time during the Vietnam War. The concept, however, met with limited success. So, the service fell back to relying primarily on such aircraft as the venerable single-engine 0-1 Bird Dog, the twin piston-engine 0-2 Skymaster, and the twin turboprop OV-10 Bronco. Other similar slower aircraft have also been used to a lesser extent over the years. More recently, the close air support A-10 Warthog evolved into the OA-10 to fill the AFAC role for USAF.
If USAF has such a thing as a food chain, F-16s at Aviano are dining near the top. The Block 40 jets at this air base in northern Italy are fully outfitted with LANTIRN navigation and targeting pods. They are the first and only operational F-16s with Sure Strike—a system that receives highly accurate targeting information from the ground. They are also the first F-16s in the active-duty Air Force to employ night vision goggles, or NVGs, operationally. And by march, all of the F-16s of Aviano’s 510th and 555th Fighter Squadrons will have cockpits and external lighting that are fully compatible with NVGs, thanks to a modification called the night vision imaging systems, or NVIS.
The Buzzards of the 510th Fighter Squadron from Aviano Air Base in northern Italy packed their travel pods and headed west over the Atlantic early this year to take in a few training opportunities in the United States. At Aviano, the Buzzards and the pilots from their sister squadron, the 555th, train with Italian F-104s and coalition forces located nearby, such as Dutch and Belgian F-16s, Canadian and Spanish F/A-18s, German Tornados, and US Navy fighters. Aviano-based F-16s have also participated in NATO Partnership for Peace exercises and in exchanges with Hungarian MiG-29s, Swedish Viggens, and French Mirage 2000s. Stateside training, however, offers many advantages not readily available in Europe, like firing live weapons and participating in large-scale exercises.