The 343d Wing is an inactive United States Air Force unit. Its last assignment was with Pacific Air Forces at Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska, where it was inactivated on 20 August 1993. The unit was f
Two of the wing's A-10A Thunderbolt IIs over Alaska during Exercise Arctic Warrior in 1991
11th Fighter Squadron P-40 in Alaska, 1943
54th Fighter Squadron P-38
11th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron F-102
The Eleventh Air Force is a Numbered Air Force of the United States Air Force Pacific Air Forces. It is headquartered at Joint Base Elmendorf–Richardson, Alaska.
343d Wing
…XI Fighter Command, 3 September 1942 Eleventh Air Force, 31 March 1944 – 15 August 1946 31st Air Division, 18 August 1955…
Capt. St. Clair Streett (at left) with pilots of the 1920 Alaskan Flying Expedition
Elmendorf Field, August 1941
18th Pursuit Squadron P-36 Hawks, Elmendorf, August 1941
LB-30 and B-17E of the 36th Bombardment Squadron at Unmnak (Fort Glenn AAF), June 1942. The B-17E (41–9126) was lost on 28 August 1942