Anton Army Airfield

Anton Army Airfield
	Part of Sixth Air Force
	Located in Panama
	Anton AAF
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Type	Military Airfield
Site information
Controlled by	United States Army Air Forces
Site history
In use	1943

Anton Army Airfield is a former United States Army Air Forces World War II airfield in Panama used as an auxiliary of Howard Field as part of the defense of the Panama Canal.

Wartime units assigned to the station were:

30th Fighter Squadron (XXVI Fighter Command), 3 January-10 February 1943 (P-40 Warhawk)
29th Bombardment Squadron (6th Bombardment Group), 29 March-13 May 1943 (Northrup A-17 Nomad)

Today there is little or no trace of the airfield.

References

This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the Air Force Historical Research Agency.

Maurer, Maurer (1983). Air Force Combat Units Of World War II. Maxwell AFB, Alabama: Office of Air Force History. ISBN 0-89201-092-4.
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