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Assigned to: Second Air Force, 825th Air Division, (Attached to the 7th Air Division 3 January to 5 April 1957). Equipment: B-47s. Changed equipment in: 1961 to B-47s, KC-97s. Reassigned to: Second Air Force, 825th Strategic Aerospace Division on 1 June 1962. Inactivated on: 1 September 1964. Reactivated on: 1 July 1987. At: McConnell AFB, KS.
The bombing campaigns of the Vietnam War were the longest and heaviest aerial bombardment in history. The United States Air Force, the U. S. Navy, and U. S. Marine Corps aviation dropped 7,662,000 tons of explosives. By comparison, U. S. forces dropped a total of 2,150,000 tons of bombs in all theaters of World War II.
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Squadron emblems of the United States Air Force. This is a list of United States Air Force Bomb Squadrons. It covers all squadrons that were constituted or redesignated as bombardment squadron sometime during their active service. Today Bomb Squadrons are considered to be part of the Combat Air Force (CAF) along with fighter squadrons. Units in this list ...
8–9 August: The Red Army Air Force began a limited bombing offensive with a raid on Berlin. [22] 15 August: Robert Stanford Tuck led the first air mission by fighters based in eastern England against enemy-occupied territories in a "Rhubarb" sweep of the Netherlands for ground targets by two Hawker Hurricanes. [17]: 215–219
Eighth Air Force was the primary heavy bombardment Air Force in the European Theater of Operations (ETO) during World War II, stationed in England. Its mission was conducting long-range strategic bomber offensive against Occupied Europe and Nazi Germany. The first Liberator mission from England took place on 9 October 1942.
The story of the B-17 would become the story of the VIII Bomber Command (later Eighth Air Force) strategic heavy bombardment campaign of the European Theater of Operations (ETO) during World War II Initially equipped with B-17Es in 1942, the Eighth Air Force received B-17Fs in Jan 1943 and B-17Gs in Nov 1943.
Eighth Air Force's mission in the Pacific was initially to organize and train new bomber groups for combat against Japan. In the planned invasion of Japan, the mission of Eighth Air Force would be to conduct B-29 Superfortress raids from Okinawa in coordination with Twentieth Air Force operating from airfields in the Mariana Islands. [13]
Record (1991–2001) — Canadian mission to secure Iraqi-Kuwaiti border. Southern Watch (1991–2003) — No-Fly Zone South of 33°N over Iraq. Alysse (1992–2003) — French codename for contribution to Operation Southern Watch. Bolton (1997–2001) — UK Royal Air Force Contribution to Southern Watch.