Sentence examples for army airfield from inspiring English sources

Keys was born at Lubbock army airfield in Hurlwood, Texas, coincidentally on the same day in 1943 that Richards was born in England.

At that time, Sebring, site of a former Army airfield in the central part of the state, had a cobbled-together road circuit made up of runways and access roads that covered roughly five miles per lap.

The town was just a tiny rural whistle-stop on the Louisville and Nashville line, but the war had brought an Army airfield to its outskirts, tripling its population to fifteen hundred.

He noted that in the last year 24,000 troops had passed through Hunter Army Airfield, a major staging area nearby for soldiers headed overseas, "deploying everywhere from Bosnia to the Bahamas".

In an era when black military personnel were being arrested while fighting segregation at installations like Freeman army airfield in Indiana, the Tuskegee Airmen were integrating the US war effort at the front lines.

Federal investigators wrote that military law enforcement agents found blood splatters in the walls of the family's home at Wheeler army airfield from Talia being whipped with Williams's belt.

After occupying what was then Czechoslovakia in 1968, the Soviet army chose an airfield 28 miles from Prague as the base for its Central Group of Forces.

They know the exact location of government ministries, of its police posts and army bases and airfields, of its power grids and communications lines.

Despite the fact that the Japanese had tried to destroy the airfields, army engineers were able to have all taxiways and runways fully operational by mid-May.

Perhaps the most striking thing about the field hospital run by the United States Army at this old Soviet airfield is that wounded Americans lie side by side with Taliban and Al Qaeda fighters.

After a tense Tuesday following the Ukrainian army's recapture of an airfield outside the city, militia drove captured Ukrainian APCs through the city on Wednesday, and 14 APCs were blockaded at the nearby village of Pcholkino.