1st - 6th Aircraft Repair Units (Floating) and 1st - 18th Aircraft Maint Units (Floating)
1944 -USAAF - 1945
Air Depot Liberty Ships and Maintenance Unit Auxiliary Vessels supported air operations in the Western Pacific. Army, Navy and Merchant Marines combined to provide aircraft repair shops, specialty services, mobile maintenance, defensive gunnery, salvage and rescue operations. Their helicopters operating from shipboard helipads and amphibious vehicles served island locations.
Dedicated by Veterans 3 Oct 97 FARAMA reunion.
Erected 1997 by Floating Aircraft Repair and Maintenance Association (FARAMA).
Topics. This memorial is listed in these topic lists: Air & Space • Patriots & Patriotism • War, World II • Waterways & Vessels.
Location. 39° 46.763′ N, 84° 6.751′ W. Memorial is in Riverside, Ohio, in Montgomery County. It can be reached from Spaatz Street. Marker (Memorial Wall #1, 065) is in the Memorial Park of the National Museum of the United States Air Force, with museum access off Springfield Street. Touch for map. Memorial is at or near this postal address: 1100 Spaatz Street, Dayton OH 45431, United States of America. Touch for directions.
Regionally, this memorial is in Ohio’s Dayton Metro and in the Miami Valley. It is also in the American Midwest and in the Corn Belt. Globally, it is in North America, the Western Hemisphere, the Western World, and the Anglosphere. Historically, it finds itself in what was once the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy, the territory of the Mississippian Culture, and the Northwest Territory.
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker: 47th Fighter Squadron (here, next to this marker); AC-130A Spectre Gunship II (here, next to this marker); SSgt Forrest Ray Cope
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Also see . . .
1. Top Secret Project Ivory Soap - Aircraft Repair Ships. United States Merchant Marine website entry (Submitted on July 19, 2015, by William Fischer, Jr. of Reynoldsburg, Ohio.)
2. Aircraft Repair Ships of WWII. Eagle Speak website entry (Submitted on July 19, 2015, by William Fischer, Jr. of Reynoldsburg, Ohio.)
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Credits. This page was last revised on August 26, 2022. It was originally submitted on July 19, 2015, by William Fischer, Jr. of Reynoldsburg, Ohio. This page has been viewed 919 times since then and 42 times this year. Photos: 1, 2. submitted on July 19, 2015, by William Fischer, Jr. of Reynoldsburg, Ohio. 3. submitted on July 2, 2015, by William Fischer, Jr. of Reynoldsburg, Ohio. 4. submitted on December 28, 2009, by William Fischer, Jr. of Reynoldsburg, Ohio.
