Souvenir Picture Folder - Maxwell Air Force Base, Montgomery, Alabama

Description

This is a souvenir picture folder of Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama.  It measures 6" x 4 1/8" when closed.  It has a fold-out strip of 18 pictures along with a history of the base.  It is postmarked 1955.
Maxwell Air Force Base
(
IATA
:
MXF
,
ICAO
:
KMXF
,
FAA
LID
:
MXF
), officially known as
Maxwell-Gunter Air Force Base
, is a
United States Air Force
(USAF) installation under the
Air Education and Training Command
(AETC). The installation is located in
Montgomery
,
Alabama
,
US
. Occupying the site of the first
Wright Flying School
, it was named in honor of Second Lieutenant
William C. Maxwell
, a native of
Atmore, Alabama
.
The base is the headquarters of
Air University
(AU), a major component of
Air Education and Training Command
(AETC), and is the U.S. Air Force's center for Joint Professional Military Education (PME). The host wing for Maxwell-Gunter is the
42d Air Base Wing
(42 ABW).
The
Air Force Reserve Command
's
908th Airlift Wing
(908 AW) is a tenant unit and the only operational flying unit at Maxwell. The 908 AW and its subordinate
357th Airlift Squadron
(357 AS) operates eight
C-130H Hercules
aircraft for theater airlift in support of combatant commanders worldwide. As an AFRC airlift unit, the 908th is operationally gained by the
Air Mobility Command
(AMC).