Pope AFB, NC - Military Installations on Waymarking.com

Pope AFB is home of the 43d Airlift Wing (C-130Es), 23d Fighter Group (A-10s famous Flying Tigers) and several special ops training and operational units. Soon, because of Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) recomendations, roughly 90% of the active duty Air Force will move on (with the Herks and Hogs) to other bases and the Army will take over Pope. There will still be a remnant of active duty AF and some incoming AF Reserve still on Pope. Otherwise, Pope has been a great assignment, I'll miss it. Come check it out before the BRAC completely changes it.

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The following info provided by flyingmoose:

In 1918, bi-planes and observation balloons began using a pea field north of the newly established Army artillery training post at Camp Bragg in 1918 as a landing strip.

Lt. Harley Halbert Pope was killed in an airplane crash in January 1918 near the Cape Fear River, north of Fayetteville, North Carolina.

Members of Pope's squadron, the 276th Aero Squadron, received movement orders to Camp Bragg Flying Field in February 1919. As a memorial to Pope, the War Department officially established the field at Camp Bragg as Pope Field on 5 April 1919. A runway did not exist, just a wide open field surrounded by a pine forest.

Pope Field became an Air Force Base with the creation of the United States Air Force on 17 September 1947

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Era: Post WW II General Comments: Not listed Related web site: Not listed

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