561st Fighter-Day Squadron
Videos
The 561st Fighter-Day Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit. It was last assigned to the 12th Fighter-Day Wing at Bergstrom Air Force Base, Texas, where it was inactivated on 8 January
12th Wing F-84F Thunderstreak
Squadron B-25H releasing 1,000 pound bombs over Burma.
RAF Gambut
Videos
RAF Gambut is a complex of six abandoned military airfields in Libya, located about 5 kilometres north-northeast of the village of Kambut, and 50 kilometres east-south-east of Tobruk. During World War
561st Fighter-Day Squadron
…Rommel to withdraw to Tunisia. By 14 December, the squadron was operating from Magrun Landing Ground (LG 142), also called Gambut No. 2, a satellite of RAF Gambut (LG 139). The new base was within range of German bases on Crete. American forces under General Dwight D. Eisenhower landed in Algeria and Morocco, and…
Abandoned German aircraft at Gambut after its recapture by the Allies (December 1941)