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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.
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.
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.
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 ...
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 ...
W. Florida World War II Army Airfields. Categories: History of Florida. Military in Florida. Military history of the United States by state.
13th Army Band (United States) The 13th Army Band is a United States National Guard military band stationed in Miramar, Florida. The unit is a part of the Florida National Guard, headquartered at St. Augustine. According to retired Adjutant General, Major General Michael A. Calhoun, the band is the "best kept secret in the National Guard. [1]
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 ...