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.
William E. Dyess
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William Edwin Dyess was an officer of the United States Army Air Forces during World War II. He was captured after the Allied loss at the Battle of Bataan and endured the subsequent Bataan Death March
Dyess Air Force Base
…Dyess AFB was established in 1942 as Abilene Army Air Base. It was renamed in honor of Texas native and Bataan Death March survivor Lieutenant Colonel William Dyess. As of 2023, the 7th Bomb Wing is commanded by Colonel Seth W. Spanier. The vice commander is Colonel Samuel M. Friend and the command chief master…
William Edwin Dyess