Air Force Base Newspapers: Difference between revisions

== Introduction ==

This is a list of United States Air Force base newspapers.

Dates in parentheses with an external link are the years digitized copies are available.

Noteworthy is that many of the references that came from Air Force base sites are about the newspapers ceasing their print editions and date to circa 2007.

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| Aero News<ref>{{cite web |title=Key Field Aero News 1942 11 25 nr 36 (PDF) |url=http://www.wartimepress.com/product/key-field-aero-news-1942-11-25-nr-36-pdf |website=Wartime Press |access-date=31 March 2025}}</ref>

| Alert Signal/The Blueprint/Silver Wings<ref>{{cite news |last1=Lindsey |first1=Jessica |title=CAFB’s Silver Wings Retiring Its Print Edition |url=http://www.cdispatch.com/news/cafbs-silver-wings-retiring-its-print-edition |access-date=30 March 2025 |work=Commerical Dispatch |date=29 July 2022}}</ref>

| Columbus Air Force Base

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| Border Eagle<ref>{{cite news |last1=May |first1=Austin M. |title=Laughlin Public Affairs Airman Takes MAJCOM-Level Honors |url=http://www.laughlin.af.mil/News/News/Display/Article/356031/laughlin-public-affairs-airman-takes-majcom-level-honors |access-date=31 March 2025 |work=Laughlin Air Force Base |date=27 February 2007}}</ref>

| Laughlin Air Force Base

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| Sewart Air Force Base

| ([http://www.newspapers.com/paper/the-carriers-courier/9151 1949-1968])

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| Delta Dagger Dispatch/Green Mountain Sentinel<ref>{{cite web |last1=Harrington |first1=Harry |title=Vermont Air National Guard Newsletters, 1967-1988 |url=http://www.vermonthistory.org/documents/findaid/AirGuardNewsletterNotes.pdf |website=Vermont Historical Society |access-date=1 April 2025 |date=May 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Document Detail for IRISNUM= 01122197 |url=http://www.airforcehistoryindex.org/data/001/122/197.xml |website=Air Force History Index |access-date=1 April 2025}}</ref>

| Burlington Air National Guard Base

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| Dow Field/Dow Air Force Base

| ([http://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/dowfieldobserver 1942-1945], [http://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/tankertimes 1959])

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| Fighter Forum<ref>{{cite web |last1=Hayes |first1=Benjamin |title=Homestead Historian [Image 4 of 5] |url=http://www.dvidshub.net/image/6888883/homestead-historian |website=DVIDS |access-date=1 April 2025 |date=14 September 2021}}</ref>

| Forbes Sky Schooner<ref>{{cite news |last1=Hart |first1=Megan |title=Roger Bergquist, Publisher of Former Forbes Air Force Base Newspaper, Dies at 91 |url=http://www.cjonline.com/story/news/local/2015/11/13/roger-bergquist-publisher-former-forbes-air-force-base-newspaper-dies-91/16610531007 |access-date=30 March 2025 |work=Topeka-Capital Journal |date=13 November 2015}}</ref>

| Forbes Air Force Base

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| Minot Air Force Base

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| Keesler News<ref>{{cite news |title=Keesler News Turns a New Page |url=http://www.keesler.af.mil/About-Us/News/Article-Display/Article/609001/keesler-news-turns-a-new-page |access-date=31 March 2025 |work=Keesler Air Force Base |date=10 April 2015}}</ref>

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| On Target<ref>{{cite web |last1=Wright |first1=Bill |title=February 2011 |url=http://www.hnlcpa.com/history/february2011.shtml |website=Heath-Newark-Licking County Port Authority |access-date=30 March 2025 |date=February 2011}}</ref>

| Newark Air Force Base

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| Philippines Flyer<ref>{{cite web |title=Document Detail for IRISNUM= 00462268 |url=http://www.airforcehistoryindex.org/data/000/462/268.xml |website=Air Force History Index |access-date=31 March 2025}}</ref>

| Clark Air Force Base

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| Prop Wash<ref>{{cite web |last1=Voisin |first1=Mike |title=Prop Wash |url=http://www.aafcollection.com/items/detail.php?key=928 |website=Army Air Forces Collection |access-date=31 March 2025 |date=30 August 2018}}</ref>

| Hawthorne Field

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| Robins Field News<ref>{{cite web |title=Robins Field News 1943 04 02 nr 08 (PDF) |url=http://www.wartimepress.com/product/robins-field-news-1943-04-02-nr-08-pdf |website=Wartime Press |access-date=31 March 2025}}</ref>

| Robins Field

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| Salvo!<ref>{{cite web |title=Salvo 1943 06 18 nr 52 (PDF) |url=http://www.wartimepress.com/product/salvo-1943-06-18-nr-52-pdf |website=Wartime Press |access-date=1 April 2025}}</ref>

| Roswell Army Air Field

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| Sourdough Sentinel<ref>{{cite web |last1=Liska |first1=Cody |title=The Anchorage Press is Dead: Far From Its Roots |url=http://www.crudemag.com/anchorage-press-is-dead |website=Crude |access-date=30 March 2025}}</ref>

| Elmendorf Air Force Base

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| Travis Air Force Base

| ([http://www.travis.af.mil/Tailwind 2017-2021])

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| Tex-Acts/Senator<ref>{{cite news |last1=Ingle |first1=John |title=Thanks for the Ride Sheppard |url=http://www.sheppard.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/369619/thanks-for-the-ride-sheppard |access-date=31 March 2025 |work=Sheppard Air Force Base |date=15 December 2006}}</ref>

| The Cadet News/Maxwell Field Post/Aerogram/Maxwell-Gunter Dispatch<ref>{{cite web |last1=Voisin |first1=Mike |title=Cadet News, The |url=http://www.aafcollection.com/items/detail.php?key=707 |website=Army Air Forces Collection |access-date=31 March 2025 |date=27 November 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Maxwell Field Post |url=http://www.dtacollectibles.com/product/american-veteran-kwjf-4 |website=DTA Collectables |access-date=31 March 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Voisin |first1=Mike |title=Aero Gram |url=http://www.aafcollection.com/items/detail.php?key=927 |website=Army Air Forces Collection |access-date=31 March 2025 |date=30 August 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Berube |first1=Phil |title=Base Leaders Recognize ‘Hometown Heroes’ |url=http://www.maxwell.af.mil/News/Display/Article/704449/base-leaders-recognize-hometown-heroes |access-date=31 March 2025 |work=Maxwell Air Force Base |date=4 April 2014}}</ref>

| Maxwell Field/Gunter Field/Maxwell Air Force Base

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| Tonopah Army Air Field

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| The Field News<ref>{{cite web |title=1944 Army Air Corps Base Newspaper. The Field News. Will Rogers Field, Oklahoma |url=http://www.ebay.com/itm/374758345883 |website=eBay |access-date=1 April 2025}}</ref>

| Will Rogers Field

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| The Great Bender<ref>{{cite web |title=The Great Bender 1944 02 07 nr 18 (PDF) |url=http://www.wartimepress.com/product/the-great-bender-1944-02-07-nr-18-pdf |website=Wartime Press |access-date=31 March 2025}}</ref>

| Great Bend Army Air Field

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| The Hawaiian Falcon<ref>{{cite book |last1=Cross |first1=Roy F. |title=MAC and Operation Babylift: Air Transport in Support of Noncombatant Evacuation Operations |date=November 1989 |publisher=Office of History, Military Airlift Command |location=Scott Air Force Base, Illinois |page=31 |url=http://www.amc.af.mil/Portals/12/documents/AFD-150325-043.pdf |access-date=31 March 2025}}</ref>

| Hickam Air Force Base

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| The Indoctrinator<ref>{{cite web |title=Document Detail for IRISNUM= 00489694 |url=http://www.airforcehistoryindex.org/data/000/489/694.xml |website=Air Force History Index |access-date=1 April 2025}}</ref>

| Parks Air Force Base

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| Patrick Air Force Base

| ([http://www.ccspacemuseum.org/library/missileer 1950-1999])

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| The Ramp<ref>{{cite web |title=The Ramp 1944 09 03 (PDF) |url=http://www.wartimepress.com/product/the-ramp-1944-09-03-pdf |website=Wartime Press |access-date=1 April 2025}}</ref>

| The Rip Chord<ref>{{cite web |title=The Rip Chord 1942 10 31 nr 19 (PDF) |url=http://www.wartimepress.com/product/the-rip-chird-1942-10-31-nr-19-pdf |website=Wartime Press |access-date=31 March 2025}}</ref>

| McChord Field

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| The Springboard/Andrews Ambassador/Ambassador-Beam/Gateway/Capital Flyer<ref>{{cite news |last1=Jones |first1=Bobby |title=Capital Flyer Takes Final Flight |url=http://www.afdw.af.mil/News/Features/Display/Article/336288/capital-flyer-takes-final-flight |access-date=30 March 2025 |work=Air Force District of Washington |date=28 June 2012}}</ref>

| Andrews Air Force Base

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| The Yuma Actioneer<ref>{{cite web |title=The Yuma Actioneer 1943 11 18 nr 01 (PDF) |url=http://www.wartimepress.com/product/the-yuma-actioneer-1943-11-18-nr-01-pdf |website=Wartime Press |access-date=31 March 2025}}</ref>

| Yuma Army Air Field

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| Tyndall Field/Tyndall Air Force Base

| ([http://digitalcommons.usf.edu/tyndall_target 1942-1944])

| Valley Bomber<ref>{{cite web |title=B-52s Stratofortress Home Castle SAC Air Force Base '61 Valley Bomber newspapers |url=http://www.ebay.com.my/itm/155754942353 |website=eBay |access-date=30 March 2025}}</ref>

| Castle Air Force Base

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| Walla Walla Army Air Field

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| Wing Tips/The Guardian/The Volunteer<ref>{{cite web |title=Wing Tips 1943 04 23 nr 01 (PDF) |url=http://www.wartimepress.com/product/the-ladd-field-midnight-sun-1942-07-11-nr-49-pdf |website=Wartime Press |access-date=31 March 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Hopkins |first1=Leticia |title=Airman Renames Base Paper with Historic Tie |url=http://www.moody.af.mil/News/Features/Display/Article/212611/airman-renames-base-paper-with-historic-tie |access-date=31 March 2025 |work=Moody Air Force Base |date=5 October 2006}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Ferrell |first1=Mona |title=Moody Takes News Online with Web Site |url=http://www.moody.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/211981/moody-takes-news-online-with-web-site |access-date=31 March 2025 |work=Moody Air Force Base |date=1 March 2007}}</ref>

| Moody Air Force Base

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* Air Force, Other

** Jefferson Barracks Hub – Air Corps Replacement Training Center Jefferson Barracks<ref>{{cite web |title=Jefferson Barracks Hub 1942 06 20 nr 25 (PDF) |url=http://www.wartimepress.com/product/jefferson-barracks-hub-1942-06-20-nr-25-pdf |website=Wartime Press |access-date=1 April 2025}}</ref>

** North Star – Alaskan Division, Air Transport Command<ref>{{cite web |title=North Star 1945 08 13 nr 17 (PDF) |url=http://www.wartimepress.com/product/north-star-1945-08-13-nr-17-pdf |website=Wartime Press |access-date=1 April 2025}}</ref>

** Sololand – 2160th AAF Base Unit<ref>{{cite web |title=Sololand 1945 01 15 nr 12 (PDF) |url=http://www.wartimepress.com/product/sololand-1945-01-15-nr-12-pdf |website=Wartime Press |access-date=1 April 2025}}</ref>

** TAC – Army Air Forces Tactical Center<ref>{{cite web |last1=Voisin |first1=Mike |title=TAC |url=http://www.aafcollection.com/items/detail.php?key=696 |website=Army Air Forces Collection |access-date=31 March 2025 |date=29 September 2022}}</ref>

** The Big Stick – 3rd Bomber Command<ref>{{cite web |title=3rd Bomber Command – The Big Stick 1945 08 25 nr 03 (PDF) |url=http://www.wartimepress.com/product/3rd-bomber-command-the-big-stick-1945-08-25-nr-03-pdf |website=Wartime Press |access-date=1 April 2025}}</ref>

** The Target – Training Division, Laredo Army Air Field<ref>{{cite web |title=The Target 1943 09 20 nr 01 (PDF) |url=http://www.wartimepress.com/product/the-beam-1943-09-20-nr-01-pdf |website=Wartime Press |access-date=1 April 2025}}</ref>

* Naval Air Stations

** Exhaust – Naval Air Station Glenview<ref>{{cite web |title=Exhaust 1943 04 09 nr 15 (PDF) |url=http://www.wartimepress.com/product/exhaust-1943-04-09-nr-15-pdf |website=Wartime Press |access-date=31 March 2025}}</ref>