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An aerial view of a portion of the base. The 3rd Air Force, U.S. Air Force Europe (USAFE), has its headquarters on the base; the 513th Airborne Command and Control Wing, USAFE, is also based at Mildenhall

An aerial view of a portion of the base. The 3rd Air Force, U.S. Air Force Europe (USAFE), has its headquarters on the base; the 513th Airborne Command and Control Wing, USAFE, is also based at Mildenhall

An aerial view of a portion of the base. The 3rd Air Force, U.S. Air Force Europe (USAFE), has its headquarters on the base; the 513th Airborne Command and Control Wing, USAFE, is also based at Mildenhall

An aerial view of a portion of the base. The 3rd Air Force, U.S. Air Force Europe (USAFE), has its headquarters on the base; the 513th Airborne Command and Control Wing, USAFE, is also based at Mildenhall

An aerial view of a portion of the base. The 48th Tactical Fighter Wing, U.S. Air Force Europe (USAFE), has its headquarters on the base; the 513th Airborne Command and Control Wing, USAFE, is based at Mildenhall

An aerial view of the main runway and a portion of the base. The 501st Tactical Missile Wing, United States Air Force Europe (USAFE), is based at Greenham Common

An aerial view of a portion of the base. The 48th Tactical Fighter Wing, U.S. Air Force Europe (USAFE), is based at Lakenheath

An aerial view of a portion of the base, showing a housing area in the foreground. The 20th Tactical Fighter Wing, U.S. Air Force Europe (USAFE), and the 42nd Electronic Combat Squadron, USAFE, are based at Upper Heyford

An aerial view of a portion of the base. The 48th Tactical Fighter Wing, U.S. Air Force Europe (USAFE), is based at Lakenheath

An aerial view of a portion of the base. The 3rd Air Force, U.S. Air Force Europe (USAFE), has its headquarters on the base; the 513th Airborne Command and Control Wing, USAFE, is also based at Mildenhall

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The original finding aid described this photograph as:

Base: Raf Mildenhall

Country: Great Britain / England (GBR)

Scene Camera Operator: SSGT David S. Nolan

Release Status: Released to Public

Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

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28/04/1989
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The U.S. National Archives
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label_outline Explore Airborne Command, Royal Air Force Raf, Air Force Europe

A Monster Mash team lifts a Zodiac inflatable boat

Team Mildenhall children play on a bouncy attraction

US Navy (USN) Aviation Electrician's Mate AIRMAN Apprentice (AEAA) Justin W. Walker checks resistance on a circuit card for a S-3B Viking aircraft electronic control assembly, ensuring the equipment is within safety standards. AEAA Walker is aboard the USN aircraft carrier USS JOHN F. KENNEDY (CV 67) currently conducting carrier qualifications in the Atlantic Ocean

A detailed view of the weapons load of an F-16C Falcon from the 52nd Fighter Wing based at Spandahlem AB Germany as it takes on fuel from a 100th Air Expeditionary Wing KC-135R Stratotanker (not shown) from RAF Mildenhall United Kingdom on 31 Mar 99. While patroling the skies over Kosovo during Operation Allied Force, it is armed with AIM-120C missiles on the two outboard stations for self protection and Highspeed Anti Radiation Missiles on the inboard station to suppress anti-aircraft radar sites

U.S. Army Lt. Col. Doug Van Weelden, 82nd Combat Aviation

The US Air Force (USAF) 100th Services Squadron (SVS), RAF Mildenhall, turned the Fitness Center into a temporary billet to accommodate the sudden increase in troops transiting the base

A NATO E-3A Sentry airborne warning and control system aircraft from NATO Air Base Geilenkirchen, West Germany, prepares to refuel from a KC-135R Stratotanker aircraft during a training mission. The plane is one of eighteen such aircraft providing surveillance for member nations as directed by NATO's Airborne Early Warning Force commander

Pilot MAJ Bob Aboe and co-pilot 1LT John Burda of the 2nd Airborne Command and Control Squadron, 55th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing, prepare for a flight in an EC-135C Stratolifter advanced airborne command post aircraft (AABNCP).

Paratroopers from D Battery, 319th Field Artillery, land at the drop zone during NATO Exercise ARDENT GROUND '87. Members of the Allied Command Europe Mobile Force from Belgium, the Netherlands, West Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, the United Kingdom and the United States are participating in the live artillery/air exercise being staged on Salisbury Plain Training Area in Wiltshire

A staff sergeant operates a control panel as he participates in a KC-135 refueling operation during Exercise GLOBAL SHIELD '84

Washington Army National Guard (WAARNG) Soldiers, Alpha Company (A Co.), 1/303rd Armor Battalion (BN), 81st Armor Brigade (Separate), Fort Lewis, Washington (WA), load a litter onto a US Air Force (USAF) C-130 Hercules aircraft as they assist in the aeromedical combat configuration and loading competition portion of the USAF Air Mobility Command (AMC) sponsored Rodeo 98 airlift competition at McChord Air Force Base (AFB), Washington (WA)

Captain (CAPT) Chris Bridges (left), USAF, Pilot, 492nd Fighter Squadron (FS), RAF Lakenheath, United Kingdom, watches as Group Captain Richard Garwood, RAF, Commanding Officer, RAF Marham, United Kingdom, acquaints himself with the front seat station after they completed a flight in a F-15E Strike Eagle. Group Captain Garwood visited RAF Lakenheath for an orientation ride in the Strike Eagle

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portion europe air force europe usafe headquarters airborne command airborne command control mildenhall air force aerial view staff sergeant us air force high resolution raf mildenhall great britain ssgt david air force base aerial photographs us national archives royal air force raf