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508th Air Refueling Squadron
The 508th Air Refueling Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit. It was an air refueling unit that operated the Boeing KB-29 and Boeing KC-97 from at Turner Air Force Base, Georgia from 1953 to 1957. In 1985, the squadron was consolidated with the 608th Bombardment Squadron, a World War II training unit of the Army Air Forces (AAF). The 608th was active from 1943 to 1944 training heavy bomber crews until it was disbanded in a general reorganization of AAF training and support units. History World War II The squadron's first predecessor was the 608th Bombardment Squadron, which was activated at Pyote Army Air Base, Texas on 1 March 1943, but made four moves before the end of the year. The squadron was one of the four original squadrons of the 400th Bombardment Group. It served as an Operational Training Unit (OTU) for Consolidated B-24 Liberator units until December.Maurer, ''Combat Squadrons'', p. 683Maurer, ''Combat Units'', p. 285 The OTU program involved th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
508th Strategic Fighter Wing
5 (five) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number, and cardinal number, following 4 and preceding 6, and is a prime number. It has attained significance throughout history in part because typical humans have five digits on each hand. In mathematics 5 is the third smallest prime number, and the second super-prime. It is the first safe prime, the first good prime, the first balanced prime, and the first of three known Wilson primes. Five is the second Fermat prime and the third Mersenne prime exponent, as well as the third Catalan number, and the third Sophie Germain prime. Notably, 5 is equal to the sum of the ''only'' consecutive primes, 2 + 3, and is the only number that is part of more than one pair of twin primes, ( 3, 5) and (5, 7). It is also a sexy prime with the fifth prime number and first prime repunit, 11. Five is the third factorial prime, an alternating factorial, and an Eisenstein prime with no imaginary part and real part of the form 3p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
