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Present royal air force station menwith hill england, united kingdom. Mar 11, 2020 the 6167th operations squadron received a distinguished unit citation for actions of maynovember 1952. Building and maintaining the most complete and sophisticated reference on the world wide web for the u. The 379th bomb group holds the record for the most tonnage dropped of any u. Media in category 420th air base group united states air force the following 11 files are in this category, out of 11 total. History books aircraft time line commanders main bases component units assigned to history.
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