Ras Lanuf Oil Airport is an airport in the

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, located on the

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coast south-southwest of

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. Its primary use is the transportation of oilfield workers from production facilities in the area. The Ras Lanuf V40

non-directional beacon A non-directional beacon (NDB) or non-directional radio beacon is a radio beacon which does not include directional information. Radio beacons are radio transmitters at a known location, used as an aviation or marine navigational aid. NDB are ...

(Ident: VR) is located on the field.

World War II

During

World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...

the airfield, then known as Hamraiet Airfield was used as a military airfield by the

United States Army Air Force The United States Army Air Forces (USAAF or AAF) was the major land-based aerial warfare service component of the United States Army and ''de facto'' aerial warfare service branch of the United States during and immediately after World War II ...

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57th Fighter Group during the North African Campaign against Axis forces. The 57th flew

P-40 Warhawk The Curtiss P-40 Warhawk is an American single-engined, single-seat, all-metal fighter and ground-attack aircraft that first flew in 1938. The P-40 design was a modification of the previous Curtiss P-36 Hawk which reduced development time and ...

s from the airfield between 3–19 January 1943 before moving forward with the

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Airports in Libya Tripolitania Airfields of the United States Army Air Forces in Libya {{libya-geo-stub

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