These photos reflect some of Ramstein Air Base’s history from 1952 to 1991.
Photo by Master Sgt. John E. Lasky A rainbow appears over a C-130 Hercules and the air traffic control tower at Ramstein Air Base March 27, 2006. The air transport aircraft belongs to the 187th Airlift Squadron of the Wyoming Air National Guard in Cheyenne.
A B-17 crew member balances a propeller in order to make repairs during World War II. Some B-17s were assigned to U.S. Air Forces in Europe in the late 1940s and were used as reconnaissance planes, renamed RB-17 Flying Fortresses.
Airman 1st Class William Ayers (right) stands by behind the wheel of an MJ-1B weapons loader as Sgt. Louis Andre secures a Mark 84 2,000-pound practice bomb to the loader’s arm on Nov. 12, 1987. The Airmen were weapons specialists with the 526th Aircraft Maintenance Unit at Ramstein.
A U.S. Air Forces in Europe Airman wears head protection gear against chemical weapons while manning an M-60 machine gun during Exercise Reforger ’81 at Ramstein.
F-100s from Hahn and Forward Air Controllers from the 17th AF (Ramstein Air Base) and the 7th Army (Stuttgart/Vaihingen) work together in 1965. By then, tension between the Soviet Union and the United States over Berlin and Cuba had cooled considerably. 1966 saw major reorganizations of U.S. military command structure in Europe with the 7th Army being merged with U.S. Army Europe and the headquarters being relocated from Frankfurt to Stuttgart.
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