Category: History

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  AS OF 8 AUGUST 2025– NEED TO LOCATE– Bowling, Richard K.-Dick Caron, Robert E.  

Sadden we have lost the following members of Vance AFB, OK Class 68E: (#-Indicated the three lost in Southeast Asia (SEA). Their names appear on the Vietnam Wall) (NOTE Wall is a 3/5 scale of the Vietnam Memorial in Washington DC, it stands six feet tall at the center and covers almost 300 feet from end to […]

# Indicated DG LAST,  FIRST             Initial Aircraft Assignments Arms, Charles I.                     C-141 Beard, Larry R.                      C-121 Blinn, Roger K.                      C-7A Bowling, Richard K.-Dick     C-133 […]

Vance Air Force Base, Oklahoma – 5 miles south of Enid, approximately 94 miles northwest of Oklahoma city and is 1,307 ft above sea level. The facility has a mission of producing military pilots. Vance AFB (VAFB) is located on over 4,934 acres with 142 buildings, and 230 housing units. There are approximately 2,450 employees […]