Chakulia Airport
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Chakulia Airport is an airport in India. It is located southwest of Chakulia, a town and a notified area in Purbi Singhbhum district in the state of Jharkhand.
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40th BG B-29 42-6310 taking off from Chakulia Airfield, India, June, 1944
40th Air Expeditionary Wing
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The United States Air Force's 40th Air Expeditionary Wing is a provisional unit assigned to Air Combat Command to activate or inactivate as needed. It was most recently located at Diego Garcia, in the
Chakulia Airport
…facility for Superfortress operations. It was one of four B-29 bases established by the Americans in India. Chakulia was designated to be the home of the 40th Bombardment Group, with initially five B-29 Squadrons (25th, 29th, 44th, 45th and 395th). The 40th arrived at the base on 2 April 1944 after completing B-29 transition…
42-74738 on an unfinished airfield in China, 1944
42-42795 landing on Tinian, 1945
Emblem of the 40th Tactical Support Wing