4/16/2014 - NELLIS AIR FORCE BASE, Nev. -- April 18 marks an important day in the history of the 57th Wing and the U.S. Air Force. In 1943, the 57th fighter group - now known as the 57th Operations Group at Nellis AFB - dealt a "fatal blow" to the German WINDSOR LOCKS — More than half a century has passed since Lt. Eugene M. Bradley, a young fighter pilot, died in a flying accident at the airport here that now bears his name. But 87-year-old Frank Mears remembers it like yesterday. ``It still brings Hartsfield Jackson Airport may be the busiest airport in Georgia and the world, but DeKalb Peachtree Airport is the second busiest airport in the Peach State. With charter and private airplanes leaving and arriving throughout the day this airport is a was chosen as the best place to take mom for Mother's Day Brunch in this week's Readers Choice Poll. Although only a few readers voted, an overwhelming majority of those were cast for the 57th who garnered 80 percent of the votes, and with one percent of Ben Carson could announce his candidacy in “bombed-out Detroit,” suggested activist Vernon Robinson, who leads a group trying to draft Carson to s seen as someone who’s not afraid to be a fighter,” said the adviser, John Brabender. A pair of full-sized, replica World War II fighter planes still stand guard outside the 57th fighter group Restaurant site at DeKalb-Peachtree Airport, and olive 1940s military trucks and Jeeps dot the lawn. But the future is up in the air for the 25-year .
The 64th AGRS, part of the 57th Adversary Tactics Group, supports Red Flag Between 1965 and 1973, during the Vietnam War, the Air Force lost a fighter for every two enemy planes it shot down in Southeast Asia, compared to a 10:1 ratio, and as high John Stefanik, 24, of Chicopee, Mass., and Lt. Charles Leaf, 21, of South Orange, members of the United States Army Air Force’s 66th Squadron of the 57th fighter group during World War II. The photo was taken in either July or August 1943, following Not that there were many enemy fighters still around in Italy by the time Hutton joined the 57th Fighter Group in Corsica in 1944. Germany's earlier aircraft losses during battles in North Africa and the difficulty of supplying its air forces in Italy had Southmayd Jr., between 1940 and 1945 when he served in the 65th Fighter Squadron, 57th Fighter Group of the 12th Army Air Force. The 58 letters in the collection detail Henry Southmayd’s recruitment into the Army Air Corps and subsequent training .
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