• Wheelus Air Base was a United States Air Force base located in British-occupied Libya and the Kingdom of Libya from 1943 to 1970. At one time it was the...
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    changed its name to the Libyan Arab Republic Air Force (LAAF). After US forces left Libya in 1970, Wheelus Air Base, a former US facility about 11 kilometres...
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    Aviano Air Base (IATA: AVB, ICAO: LIPA) (Italian: Base aerea di Aviano) is a base in northeastern Italy, in the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region. It is located...
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  • Hellenikon Air Base is a decommissioned United States Air Force base located in Athens, Greece. After its closure, it was redeveloped into Ellinikon International...
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    to the control of the US Army Air Forces, who called it Mellaha AAF until 1945, when they renamed it Wheelus Air Base for a US airman killed that year...
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    installed in the chapel at Wheelus Air Base to commemorate Lady Be Good and her crew. As part of the US withdrawal from Wheelus, the window was disassembled...
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    Zaragoza Air Base (IATA: ZAZ, ICAO: LEZG) is a base of the Spanish Air and Space Force located near Zaragoza, Spain. It is located 16 kilometres (10 mi)...
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    Incirlik Air Base (Turkish: İncirlik Hava Üssü) (IATA: UAB, ICAO: LTAG) is a Turkish air base of slightly more than 3320 ac (1335 ha), located in the İncirlik...
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    available, but most have not been translated from their original Arabic. Wheelus Air Base Medieval Muslim Algeria Berbers and Islam Kusaila Early Muslim conquests...
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    The most important of the United States installations in Libya was Wheelus Air Base, near Tripoli, considered a strategically valuable installation in...
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