Dyess Air Force Base
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Dyess Air Force Base is a United States Air Force base located about 7 miles southwest of downtown Abilene, Texas, and 150 miles west of Fort Worth, Texas.
C 130 Hercules, 463rd Tactical Airlifift Wing for a mass airdrop exercise. Dyess Air Force Base
Main gate entrance sign
7th Bomb Wing Headquarters
Abilene Army Airfield, mid-1940s.
Abilene, Texas
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Abilene is a city in Taylor and Jones counties, Texas, United States. Its population was 125,182 at the 2020 census. It is the principal city of the Abilene metropolitan statistical area, which had a
Dyess Air Force Base
…Air Force Base (AFB) (IATA: DYS, ICAO: KDYS, FAA LID: DYS) is a United States Air Force (USAF) base located about 7 miles (11 km) southwest of downtown Abilene, Texas, and 150 miles (240 km) west of Fort Worth, Texas. The host unit at Dyess is the 7th Bomb Wing assigned to the Global Strike Command Eighth Air Force…
Downtown Abilene
The restored Texas & Pacific Railway depot in Abilene serves as the tourist information center.
Hotel Wooten
Enterprise Tower