Bizerte-Sidi Ahmed Air Base

37°14′36.30″N 009°47′11.03″E / 37.2434167°N 9.7863972°E / 37.2434167; 9.7863972TypeMilitary airfieldSite informationControlled byTunisian Air Force United States Air ForceSite historyBuilt1943

Bizerte-Sidi Ahmed Air Base (ICAO: DTTB) is a Tunisian Air Force base located approximately 7 km west of Menzel Abderhaman, 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 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 Ahmen.

Post-World War II

AFRICOM secretly operates a drone base at Bizerte-Sidi Ahmed Air Base.^[1][2]

See also

• Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress airfields in the Mediterranean Theater of Operations

References

External links

 This article incorporates public domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency

• Maurer, Maurer. Air Force Combat Units of World War II. Maxwell AFB, Alabama: Office of Air Force History, 1983. ISBN 0-89201-092-4.
• Maurer, Maurer, ed. (1982) [1969]. Combat Squadrons of the Air Force, World War II (PDF) (reprint ed.). Washington, DC: Office of Air Force History. ISBN 0-405-12194-6. LCCN 70605402. OCLC 72556.
• Tunisian Air Force order of battle