EEUU.-EEUU adopta medidas para la seguridad de sus tropas en Europa y evita pronunciarse sobre rotaciones en Reino Unido
- Código:
- 7906188
- Fecha:
- 28/04/2025
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April 28, 2025, Mildenhall, East Of England, United Kingdom: Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker of the USAF. The 100th Air Refuelling Group (USAF) commemorates: Operation Chowhound (food drops over the Netherlands on 1-8 May 1945). On this occasion, the 100th fly the historic route over the Netherlands on board a Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker. Above the Netherlands three Lockheed Martine F-35 Lightning II fighter
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jets of the Royal Netherlands Air Force will fly a mid-air refuelling mission with the 100th. Under the command of Wing Commander Col Ryan Garlow, the aircraft departs from RAF Mildenhall, home base of the 100th Air Refuelling Wing. Historically, the nickname given to the 100th was the �Bloody Hundredth'. Flying over 300 combat missions, the group earned two Distinguished Unit Citations (Regensburg, 17 August 1943; Berlin, 4/6/8 March 1944). The group suffered tremendous losses in combat, with 177 aircraft missing in action (MIA), flying its last mission on 20 April 1945. During World War II, its predecessor unit, the 100th Bombardment Group (Heavy), was an Eighth Air Force B-17 Flying Fortress unit stationed at RAF Thorpe Abbotts in England.
Fecha: 28/04/2025.
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