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Lete Airfield is an abandoned World War II military airfield located in the vicinity of Al Jukhkh al Kabir; about 10 km east of
Benghazi Benghazi () , ; it, Bengasi; tr, Bingazi; ber, Bernîk, script=Latn; also: ''Bengasi'', ''Benghasi'', ''Banghāzī'', ''Binghāzī'', ''Bengazi''; grc, Βερενίκη (''Berenice'') and ''Hesperides''., group=note (''lit. Son of he Ghazi ...
. Its precise location is undetermined, likely redeveloped as part of the suburbs of Benghazi. It was used by the United States Army Air Force Ninth Air Force during the Eastern Desert Campaign by the
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by the 343rd Bombardment Squadron ( 98th Bombardment Group) from 3 March-25 September 1943,
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and the 344th Bombardment Squadron ( 98th Bombardment Group), from 4 March-24 September 1943,
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.


References


Further reading

* Maurer, Maurer
''Air Force Combat Units of World War II''.
Maxwell AFB, Alabama: Office of Air Force History, 1983. 521p.. *


External links

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