XIX Tactical Air Command
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The XIX Tactical Air Command is an inactive United States Air Force unit. The unit's last assignment was with the Ninth Air Force based at Biggs Field, Texas, where it was inactivated on 31 March 1946.
Maj Gen Otto P. Weyland in the cockpit of his P-47 Thunderbolt
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Ninth Air Force
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The Ninth Air Force (Air Forces Central) is a Numbered Air Force of the United States Air Force headquartered at Shaw Air Force Base, South Carolina. It is the Air Force Service Component of United States Central Command (USCENTCOM), a joint Department of Defense combatant command responsible for U.S. security interests in 27 nations that stretch from the Horn of Africa through the Persian Gulf region, into Central Asia.
B-24 Liberator of the 376th Bomb Group taking off from a Libyan base, 1943
P-38 of the 370th Fighter Group on a wartime advanced landing strip
P-47D of the 406th Fighter Group on a wartime advanced landing strip
12th Army Group Ground-Air command team in April 1945 with Eisenhower, Spaatz, and Bedell Smith