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Naval Air Station Key West ( IATA: NQX [2], ICAO: KNQX, FAA LID: NQX ), is a naval air station and military airport located on Boca Chica Key, four miles (6 km) east of the central business district of Key West, Florida, United States. [3] NAS Key West is an air-to-air combat training facility for fighter aircraft of all military services, with ...
County. Miami-Dade. Soldier Key is an island in Biscayne National Park in Miami-Dade County, Florida. It is located between Biscayne Bay and the Atlantic Ocean, about three miles north of the Ragged Keys, five miles south of Cape Florida on Key Biscayne, seven-and-a-half miles east of the mainland and three miles west of Fowey Rocks.
Fort Jefferson is a former U.S. military coastal fortress in the Dry Tortugas National Park of Florida. It is the largest brick masonry structure in the Americas, [2] [3] covering 16 acres (6.5 ha) and made with over 16 million bricks. [4] Among United States forts, only Fort Monroe in Virginia and Fort Adams in Rhode Island are larger.
Fleming Key is an island off the northwest corner of the island of Key West, Florida in the lower Florida Keys. It is roughly 2 miles (3.2 km) long by 0.25 miles (400 m) wide. It is connected to the island of Key West by the Fleming Key Bridge (Mustin Road), having 18 feet (5.5 m) of clearance over Fleming Key Cut, a small channel.
The Saddlebunch Keys are a series of mangrove islands about 7 miles (11 km) east of Key West, Florida. [1] The keys are scattered between Lower Sugarloaf Key and Shark Key . U.S. 1 (or the Overseas Highway) crosses some of the Saddlebunches at mile markers 11.5—15. Just east of Big Coppitt Key and Shark Key, and west of Sugarloaf Shores, is ...
Cudjoe Key Air Force Station. Coordinates: 24.699°N 81.505°W. Cudjoe Key Air Force Station (earlier Cudjoe Key Missile Tracking Annex, Eglin AFB Site "No D 8") is a Formerly Used Defense Site of 68.5 acres (27.7 ha) [1] in Monroe County, Florida, 7 mi (11 km) Northeast of Perky, Florida. [2]
1940-1944. In use. 1940-present. During World War II, the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) established numerous airfields in Florida for antisubmarine defense in the western Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico and for training pilots and aircrews of USAAF fighters, attack planes, and light and medium bombers. After early 1944, heavy bomber crews ...
95th Fighter Squadron. 96th Test Wing. 116th Field Artillery Regiment. 124th Infantry Regiment (United States) 125th Fighter Wing. Governor's Guards (Florida) 159th Fighter Squadron. 211th Infantry Regiment (United States) 265th Air Defense Artillery Regiment.