Bizerte-Sidi Ahmed Air Base is a Tunisian Air Force base located approximately 7 km west of Menzel Abderahman, and 9 km west-southwest of Bizerte.
Units stationed at the base are:
No. 11 Squadron Jet trainer squadron, Aermacchi MB-326 No. 15 Squadron Fighter squadron, Northrop F-5 Tiger/TigerII No. 21 Squadron Transport squadron, C-130 Hercules, Let L-410 Turbolet, G-222
World War II During World War II it was a German air base until 16 November 1942 when it was the target of an American bombing raid led by Theodore Van Kirk as a threat to Operation Torch.
It was then used by the United States Army Air Forces Twelfth Air Force during the North African Campaign. It was known as Bizerte Airfield. Several Allied units used the base in 1943. It was a heavy bomber airfield used by B-17 Flying Fortress strategic bombers of the 2d Bombardment Group, between 2 and 9 December 1943. There was a major air depot co-located at Sidi Ahmed.
Post-World War II AFRICOM secretly operates a drone base at Bizerte-Sidi Ahmed Air Base.
See also Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress airfields in the Mediterranean Theater of Operations
References
External links
Maurer, Maurer. Air Force Combat Units of World War II. Maxwell AFB, Alabama: Office of Air Force History, 1983. .
Tunisian Air Force order of battle