Dover Air Force Base

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Dover Air Force Base or Dover AFB (IATA: DOV, ICAO: KDOV, FAA LID: DOV) is a United States Air Force (USAF) base under the operational control of Air Mobility Command (AMC), located 2 mi (3.2 km) southeast of the city of Dover, Delaware. The 436th Airlift Wing (436th AW) serves as the host wing and operates a major Department of Defense air freight terminal. The AMC-gained 512th Airlift Wing (512th AW) of the Air Force Reserve Command is co-located at the base. Together the two wings fly a fleet of C-5M Super Galaxy and C-17 Globemaster III aircraft. Construction began in March 1941 and the facility opened on December 17, 1941, ten days after the attack on Pearl Harbor; it was converted to military use within weeks. It was redesignated Dover Air Force Base on January 13, 1948. Under the Military Air Transport Service and its successor Military Airlift Command, Dover transitioned to an all-C-5 Galaxy fleet by 1973, the first such wing in the USAF. The base transferred to the newly established...

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