533d Air Defense Group
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The 533d Air Defense Group is a disbanded United States Air Force organization. Its last assignment was with the 27th Air Division at Oxnard Air Force Base, California, where it was inactivated on 18
F-94 Starfires of the group's 354th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron
F-51D as flown by the 354th FIS until July 1953
Sterparone Airfield
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Sterparone Airfield is an abandoned World War II military airfield in Italy. It was located 11.1 kilometers south-southeast of San Severo, in the Province of Foggia. The airfield was abandoned and dis
533d Air Defense Group
…replaced air defense groups commanding fighter squadrons with fighter groups with distinguished records during World War II. The group was activated at Sterparone Airfield, Italy as the 533d Air Service Group shortly after VE Day in a reorganization of Army Air Forces (AAF) support groups in which the AAF replaced service…
Sterparone Airfield, Italy, 1945