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  • Picture of the book cover: Short of War Major USAF Contingency Operations, edited by A. Timothy Warnock.
    Short of War Major USAF Contingency Operations 1947-1997
  • Picture of the book cover: To Save a City: The Berlin Airlift, 1948-1949 by Roger G. Miller
    The Berlin Airlift 1948 - 1949.
  • Picture of a map of reconnaissance objectives in Cuba, 1962, during the Cuban Missile crisis.
    Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962.
  • Picture of the book cover:  Operation Ranch Hand: the Air Force and Herbicides in Southeast Asia, 1961-1971, by William A. Buckingham.
    Operation Ranch Hand
  • Pictures of an F-16A Fighting Falcon, F-15C Eagle and F-15E Strike Eagle fighter aircraft fly over burning oil field sites in Kuwait during Operation Desert Storm.
    Operation Desert Storm
  • Picture of a Pave Low helicopter refueling while flying over flooded plains in Mozambique, 2000.
    Operation Atlas Response, 2000.
  • A picture of a painting depicting Air National Guard pilots flying over the burning Pentagon on 9/11.
    Operation Noble Eagle, 2001.


SIGNIFICANT OPERATIONS

1942 - Doolittle's Raid

1943 - Ploesti Raids

1945 - Bombings of Dresden

1948 - The Berlin Airlift

1962 - Operation Ranch Hand

1962 - Cuban Missile Crisis

1965 - Operation Rolling Thunder

1965 - Operation Arc Light

1972 - Operation Linebacker I

1972 - Operation Linebacker II

1975 - Operation Babylift and Frequent Wind

1975 - Mayaguez Incident

1979 - Operation Eagle Claw

1983 - Operation Urgent Fury

1986 - Operation El Dorado Canyon

1990 - Operation Desert Shield Desert Storm

1991 - Operation Provide Comfort and Northern Watch

1991 - Operation Southern Watch

1992 - NATO Operation Sky Monitor

1993 - Operation Deny Flight

1995 - Operation Deliberate Force

1996 - Operation Desert Strike

1998 - Operation Desert Fox

1999 - Operation Allied Force

2000 - JTF Operaton Atlas Response

2001 - Operation Noble Eagle

2001 - Operation Enduring Freedom

2003 - Operation Iraqi Freedom

2005 - Hurricane Katrina Relief Operations

2011 - Operation Tomodachi

USAF Named Operations 1947-2006

 

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