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Bases for U-2 Operations in the Middle East, 1956
![Map showing bases for U-2 operations in the Middle East, 1956. Labels include: NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN, WEST GERMANY, Wiesbaden, Black Sea, Turkey, Adana, Mediterranean Sea. Scale: 0 — 500 Kilometers — 500 Miles. Bottom right: 724745 (B00952) 4-92. Bottom center: Secret NOFORN.]
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Suez takeover, however, the second contingent of U-2 aircraft and pilots was still being trained in Nevada. This unit would not be ready for redeployment before the end of August and would not become established at Incirlik airbase near Adana, Turkey, until early September 1956. The Agency referred to the AQUATONE detachment at Adana as Detachment B, cryptonym KWCORK; the Air Force covername was Weather Reconnaissance Squadron Provisional 2; and the unit’s unofficial name was Tuslog Detachment 10-10. By whatever name, the Adana detachment became the mainstay of U-2 activity for the next three and a half years.⁴³
The fast-moving events of the Suez Crisis would not wait for Detachment B pilots to complete their training. With tension growing between Egypt and the Suez Canal Company’s former owners, the United Kingdom and France, as well as between Egypt and Israel, US
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⁴³ *OSA History*, chap. 11, pp. 9, 39-40; chap. 12, pp. 5, 12 (TS Codeword).
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