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Georgette l'espagnole
Nombre de messages : 75 Age : 75 Date d'inscription : 04/11/2012
| Sujet: PORT LYAUTEY LA BASE AMERICAINE Mar 13 Nov 2012 - 11:42 | |
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Georgette l'espagnole
Nombre de messages : 75 Age : 75 Date d'inscription : 04/11/2012
| Sujet: Re: PORT LYAUTEY LA BASE AMERICAINE Mar 13 Nov 2012 - 11:44 | |
| In November 1942, after Operation Torch, the Americans captured the Port Lyautey French fighter base as a military base, named Craw Field. The Navy ran the base until 1947, when the State Department negotiated reversion of control to France. In 1950, a $23,000,000 expansion was authorized, but then the Korean War diverted resources. In the 1950s, nearly 10,000 persons were on the base making it the largest aggregation of Americans in any one overseas base outside Japan. Later, the base at Kenitra was expanded to become a U.S. Naval Air Station.
The base was shared by both the USA and Morocco through "The Cold War". A small Navy communications out-station at Sidi Yahia closed in the mid 1970s. The Air-Station was closed in 1991. | |
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Georgette l'espagnole
Nombre de messages : 75 Age : 75 Date d'inscription : 04/11/2012
| Sujet: Re: PORT LYAUTEY LA BASE AMERICAINE Mar 13 Nov 2012 - 11:48 | |
| La base militaire française a Port Lyautey fut capturée et utilisée par les forces américaines durant les années de la Deuxième Guerre Mondiale et ensuite largement développée pour en faire une base militaire aérienne très importante de la SAC , base américaine de l'Otan . | |
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Georgette l'espagnole
Nombre de messages : 75 Age : 75 Date d'inscription : 04/11/2012
| Sujet: Re: PORT LYAUTEY LA BASE AMERICAINE Mar 13 Nov 2012 - 11:49 | |
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Georgette l'espagnole
Nombre de messages : 75 Age : 75 Date d'inscription : 04/11/2012
| Sujet: Re: PORT LYAUTEY LA BASE AMERICAINE Mar 13 Nov 2012 - 11:50 | |
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Georgette l'espagnole
Nombre de messages : 75 Age : 75 Date d'inscription : 04/11/2012
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Georgette l'espagnole
Nombre de messages : 75 Age : 75 Date d'inscription : 04/11/2012
| Sujet: Re: PORT LYAUTEY LA BASE AMERICAINE Mar 13 Nov 2012 - 11:51 | |
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Georgette l'espagnole
Nombre de messages : 75 Age : 75 Date d'inscription : 04/11/2012
| Sujet: Re: PORT LYAUTEY LA BASE AMERICAINE Mar 13 Nov 2012 - 11:51 | |
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Georgette l'espagnole
Nombre de messages : 75 Age : 75 Date d'inscription : 04/11/2012
| Sujet: Re: PORT LYAUTEY LA BASE AMERICAINE Mar 13 Nov 2012 - 11:52 | |
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Georgette l'espagnole
Nombre de messages : 75 Age : 75 Date d'inscription : 04/11/2012
| Sujet: Re: PORT LYAUTEY LA BASE AMERICAINE Mar 13 Nov 2012 - 11:52 | |
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Georgette l'espagnole
Nombre de messages : 75 Age : 75 Date d'inscription : 04/11/2012
| Sujet: Re: PORT LYAUTEY LA BASE AMERICAINE Mar 13 Nov 2012 - 11:52 | |
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Georgette l'espagnole
Nombre de messages : 75 Age : 75 Date d'inscription : 04/11/2012
| Sujet: Re: PORT LYAUTEY LA BASE AMERICAINE Mar 13 Nov 2012 - 11:53 | |
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Georgette l'espagnole
Nombre de messages : 75 Age : 75 Date d'inscription : 04/11/2012
| Sujet: Re: PORT LYAUTEY LA BASE AMERICAINE Mar 13 Nov 2012 - 11:53 | |
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Georgette l'espagnole
Nombre de messages : 75 Age : 75 Date d'inscription : 04/11/2012
| Sujet: Re: PORT LYAUTEY LA BASE AMERICAINE Mar 13 Nov 2012 - 11:54 | |
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Georgette l'espagnole
Nombre de messages : 75 Age : 75 Date d'inscription : 04/11/2012
| Sujet: Re: PORT LYAUTEY LA BASE AMERICAINE Mar 13 Nov 2012 - 11:55 | |
| Aerial view of the Port Lyautey Control Tower and building.P2V on flight line with ship on the Sebou River background. The squadron that this aircraft belonged to was Patrol Squadron 5 (VP-5) out of NAS Jacksonville, Florida. They were more than likely doing a six month deployment according to Jack Malone, VP-23 1953/1955 who saw this photo on 1/26/05 and e-mailed the information. The following photographs were contributed by Dean Miner, former PHA3, USN who was stationed at Port Lyautey from early 1957 until late 1958, where he was assigned to the Photo Lab. In that capacity, he took the aerial and aircraft photographs which follow.Helicopter (Helo) landing at Port Lyautey. Many of the photographs Dean Miner took, were taken from this aircraft. SAR Amphibious boat on the Sebou River practicing Rocket Assisted Takeoffs. Note the rocket bottle in the aft hatch. This and the following photographs were taken from the crash boat.Same aircraft with rocket activatedAn aerial view of the terminal, aircraft on the ground and a VR-24 aircraft in flight.P2V refueling on the flight line P2V's in formation.Base Photo Lab personnel 1957 - 1958. Dean Miner is in the rear row, third from the left. Seated in the front row from left to tight are, Ens. Skiff, Lt. Rutledge and Chief DeMoss. After Dean Miner left Port Lyautey, he received a report that Chief DeMoss had been killed in a P4M crash while hitching a ride back to the states. If anyone can confirm this, it would be greatly appreciated.
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Georgette l'espagnole
Nombre de messages : 75 Age : 75 Date d'inscription : 04/11/2012
| Sujet: Re: PORT LYAUTEY LA BASE AMERICAINE Mar 13 Nov 2012 - 11:56 | |
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Georgette l'espagnole
Nombre de messages : 75 Age : 75 Date d'inscription : 04/11/2012
| Sujet: Re: PORT LYAUTEY LA BASE AMERICAINE Mar 13 Nov 2012 - 11:57 | |
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