Originally Posted by Seafire


Alconbury was where my old man was stationed at in England for 3 yrs....back then, they converted from the RB66s which went to Vietnam and were replaced with the RF 4C...first unit in Europe to get them...

also saw on the Website about the history of it, that the 10th Tac Recon Wing, later changed over to their mission having them equip with A 10s...

those same early Phantoms ended up going to the MN NG at Hermantown, outside of Duluth in the early 1980s...


The 10th TRW RF-4C's were at Alconbury until 1987 when the 1st TRS shut down. Most of the newer RF-4C's at Alconbury were integrated into my squadron at Zweibrucken (38th TRS), making us the last Tac Recce squadron in Europe. The rest of the RF-4C's from Alconbury were sent stateside.

The A-10's came to Alconbury around 1988, maybe late 1987. I was there TDY for a month in April 1986 and then for a couple days in 1987 and at that time they had the RF-4C's, Aggressor F-5's and TR-1's.

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