Message no. 1

From:	"Paul J. Adam" <shadowrn@********.DEMON.CO.UK>
Subject:	question v2 - Hickam Field
Date:	Sun, 8 Jun 1997 15:20:35 +0100

In message <29025.199706071209@*****.teach.cs.keele.ac.uk>, Spike
<u5a77@*****.CS.KEELE.AC.UK> writes
>|Hickam AFB.
>
>What's AFB?

Air Force Base. Hickam is in Hawaii. And according to my handy-dandy Air
Commanders CD-ROM...

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US Air Force: Air Bases
Hickam AFB, Hawaii
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Command: PACAF

Major Unit: HQ PACAF; 15th ABW, C-135B/C

Tenant Units: 154th CG; F-15A, F-15A/B, C-130H, KC-135R (ANG)

Location and Origin of Name: on Oahu Island nine miles west of Honolulu,
and named for Lieutenant Colonel Horace M. Hickam, a pioneer aviator
killed in an A-12 accident on 5 November 1934 at Fort Crockett, TX

Copyright (c) 1995 SoftKey Multimedia Inc.; All Rights Reserved.
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Tom, if this is radically incorrect please let me know :)

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