|
389th Bombardment Group
389th may refer to: * 389th Bombardment Squadron, inactive United States Air Force unit *389th Fighter Squadron The 389th Fighter Squadron is part of the 366th Fighter Wing at Mountain Home Air Force Base, Idaho. It operates McDonnell Douglas F-15E Strike Eagle aircraft conducting close air support. Mission Perform close air support, interdiction, s ... (389 FS) is part of the 366th Fighter Wing at Mountain Home Air Force Base, Idaho * 389th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht), German division of the Wehrmacht in the Second World War; fought in the Battle of Stalingrad * 389th Strategic Missile Wing, inactive unit of the United States Air Force See also * 389 (number) * 389, the year 389 (CCCLXXXIX) of the Julian calendar * 389 BC {{mil-unit-dis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
389th Bombardment Squadron
The 389th Bombardment Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit. Its last assignment was with the 312th Bombardment Group, based at Ellington Field. Texas. It was inactivated on June 27, 1949. History Established in early 1942 as a light bomb squadron, equipped with A-24 Banshees, although equipped with export model A-31 Vengeance dive bombers for training. Trained under Third Air Force in the southeast United States, also used for antisubmarine patrols over the Atlantic southeast coast and then Gulf of Mexico. Deployed to Southern California in early 1943 to the Desert Warfare Center, trained in light bombing while supporting Army maneuvers in the Mojave Desert until October. Re-equipped with North American A-36 Apache dive bombers and deployed to New Guinea as part of Fifth Air Force. In the Southwest Pacific the squadron attacked Japanese strong points and tactical positions and targets of opportunity in support of MacArthur's campaign along the north coast of New ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
389th Fighter Squadron
The 389th Fighter Squadron is part of the 366th Fighter Wing at Mountain Home Air Force Base, Idaho. It operates McDonnell Douglas F-15E Strike Eagle aircraft conducting close air support. Mission Perform close air support, interdiction, strategic attack, suppression of enemy air defense, and defensive counterair missions, employing the full array of U.S. Air Force capabilities including precision-guided munitions, inertially-aided munitions, night vision goggles, fighter data lin366 OG Fact Sheet History World War II The 389th flew combat in the European Theater of Operations from 14 March 1943 to 3 May 1945. Lt. Col. John B. England, who was commander of the 389th Fighter-Bomber Squadron from Alexandria AFB, was killed when his F-86 crashed into the woods near Toul. He was returning from gunnery practice near Tripoli, Libya. The fog was very thick and visibility was near zero. After several attempts to locate the runway his plane suffered fuel starvation. At this mom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
389th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)
The 389th Infantry Division was a German division of the Wehrmacht in the Second World War, which fought for example in the Battle of Stalingrad. It was formed on 27 January 1942 in Milowitz. History The 389th Infantry division was formed on 27 January 1942 as a division of the 18th mobilization wave on the training area in Milowitz near Prague. The Motto of the division was "''Der Sonne Rad mit Schild und Speer, dem Rhein, dem Reich zu Wehr und Ehr''". It was designed as a "Sturm- und Stoß" division (English: storm and impulse division), whose soldiers had to run through a hard training and a long conscription to fight on the foremost part of the front. The soldiers were mostly veterans of the previous campaigns on the Western Front and the Invasion of Poland. From May 1942 onwards, it was employed in battles on the Eastern Front as a part of the 6th Army under the command of General der Panzertruppe Friedrich Paulus. After he had taken over the command in January 1942, the R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
389th Strategic Missile Wing
The 389th Strategic Missile Wing is an inactive unit of the United States Air Force. Its last assignment was with the 13th Strategic Missile Division at Francis E. Warren Air Force Base, Wyoming, where it was inactivated on 25 March 1965. The wing was first active during World War II as the 389th Bombardment Group, a Consolidated B-24 Liberator unit that served with VIII Bomber Command in England. The group was stationed at RAF Hethel in early 1943. It was one of three Eighth Air Force B-24 groups that took part in Operation Tidal Wave, the Ploiești Mission of 1 August 1943. For his actions during the Ploiești operation, Second Lieutenant Lloyd Herbert Hughes was awarded the Medal of Honor. The group continued in combat until the surrender of Germany in 1945, then returned to the United States where it was inactivated. The 389th Strategic Missile Wing was activated in 1961, when it assumed the assets of the inactivating 706th Strategic Missile Wing. It operated Atlas missiles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
389 (number)
300 (three hundred) is the natural number following 299 and preceding 301. Mathematical properties The number 300 is a triangular number and the sum of a pair of twin primes (149 + 151), as well as the sum of ten consecutive primes (13 + 17 + 19 + 23 + 29 + 31 + 37 + 41 + 43 + 47). It is palindromic in 3 consecutive bases: 30010 = 6067 = 4548 = 3639, and also in base 13. Factorization is 30064 + 1 is prime Other fields Three hundred is: * In bowling, a perfect score, achieved by rolling strikes in all ten frames (a total of twelve strikes) * The lowest possible Fair Isaac credit score * Three hundred ft/s is the maximum legal speed of a shot paintball * In the Hebrew Bible, the size of the military force deployed by the Israelite judge Gideon against the Midianites () * According to Islamic tradition, 300 is the number of ancient Israeli king Thalut's soldiers victorious against Goliath's soldiers * According to Herodotus, 300 is the number of ancient Spartans ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
