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Loring Air Force Base (IATA: LIZ, ICAO: KLIZ) was a United States Air Force installation in northeastern Maine, near Limestone and Caribou in Aroostook County. It was one of the largest bases of the U.S. Air Force's Strategic Air Command during its existence, and was transferred to the newly created Air Combat Command in 1992.
Aug 19, 2024 · For decades, Maine's Loring Air Force Base played a key role in the defense of the United States. The base, located near the town of Limestone, was home to a squadron of B-52 bombers. The following images come from videos from here, here, and here.
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Loring AFB was one of the biggest in the arsenal for the United States Air Force. Loring had two separate commands, it started out as Strategic Air Command then transferred to Air Combat Command (ACC) in 1992.
Sep 29, 2024 · Two veterans who were stationed at the base and still live near it recently shared stories of their service and the base’s history. In 1947, the U.S. Air Force chose Aroostook County to host one of the new Strategic Air Command bases, meant to house and possibly deploy nuclear weapons.
Aug 27, 2019 · Memories of a robust Loring Air Force Base have not faded, even after a quarter of a century. Residents from northern Maine and across the country gathered Aug. 23 to 25 to meet old friends and reminisce during the 25th anniversary of the base’s 1994 closure.
Loring Air Force Base in Maine was the closest base in the continental United States to the Soviet Union east of the Urals, to Europe and to the Middle East. Loring was a megabase, with enormous capacity, second in all of SAC. It had two runways, and only two other SAC bases had two runways.
Loring Air Force Base extended for 9,000 acres and its combined military and civilian workforce peaked at about 10,000 before its closure in the 1990’s. (See reference to Assignment in Aroostook under “Geography” in Movies.)
