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The wing activated as the 306th Bombardment Wing, Medium on 1 September 1950 at MacDill AFB, Florida.Upon activation, the 306th Bombardment Group, already stationed at MacDill, was assigned as its operational component, but four months later the group's flying squadrons were attached directly to the wing after and it became a paper organization.
On 1 April 1963, the 306th Bombardment Wing (306 BW), a B-47 Stratojet unit originally scheduled for inactivation, moved on paper from MacDill AFB, Florida to McCoy AFB, converting to a B-52D Stratofortress and KC-135A Stratotanker wing by absorbing the assets and personnel of the 4047th Strategic Wing. With this standup of the 306 BW, the ...
The attached 306th Bombardment Group transferred to its parent wing on 1 September 1950, and until 10 February 1951, the 307th Wing had no tactical mission. On that date, wing resources were used to man the 6th Air Division at MacDill, and the wing deployed without personnel to Kadena, where it absorbed resources of the 307th Bombardment Group ...
At McCoy AFB, FL. Assigned to: Eighth Air Force, 823rd Air Division. Equipment: B-52s. Inactivated on: 1 April 1963. Aircraft and crews reassigned to the 306th Bombardment Wing 1 April 1963 from the 99th Bombardment Wing / 347th Bombardment Squadron at Westover AFB Massachusetts.
Wing transferred to McCoy AFB, Florida in 1963; 367th BS converted to B-52D Stratofortress. 307th Bombardment Wing, Lincoln AFB, Nebraska; Fifteenth Air Force, 8 Nov 1954 – 30 Dec 1958, B-47E Second Air Force, 31 Dec 1958 – 25 Jun 1965, B-47E; EB-47L (1962-1964) 370th Bombardment Squadron 371st Bombardment Squadron 372d Bombardment Squadron
Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, North Carolina [35] 72nd Bombardment Wing, 1 October 1962 – 30 June 1971; Ramey Air Force Base, Puerto Rico [20] 306th Bombardment Wing, 6 February 1961 – 30 June 1971; MacDill Air Force Base, Florida until 1 April 1963, then McCoy Air Force Base, Florida [19] 321st Bombardment Wing, 6 February – 25 October ...
After obtaining his pilot wings in 1966 at Moody AFB, GA, Ellis was assigned to Danang Air Base, Republic of Vietnam, in 1967. ... Arcuri was a B-52 copilot with the 744th Bomb Squadron of the ...
B-47B of the 306th Bomb Wing (Medium) landing at MacDill AFB. On 19 November 1951, the 306th received its first operational Boeing B-47B and christened it "The Real McCoy" in honor of Colonel Michael N. W. McCoy , [ 7 ] the 306th's wing commander, who flew it from the Boeing Wichita plant to MacDill AFB.