The destroyer USS Dallas came up the Sebou River, silenced the shore batteries with its guns and landed the Raider team which in turn captured the airfield.

Two USN K-class blimps completed the first transatlantic crossing by non-rigid airships when they landed at Craw Field, Port Lyautey on the evening of 1 June 1944.

It primarily supported land-based naval reconnaissance aircraft, such as the P4M Mercator in the 1950s, the P-2 Neptune in the 1950s and 1960s and the Lockheed P-3 Orion,[4] EP-3 Aries and EA-3 Skywarrior[5][6] in the 1960s and 1970s.

Most of the MUSLO team members had previously been assigned to Williams Field, Arizona where the Moroccan pilots and technicians were initially trained.

[citation needed] This article incorporates public domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency