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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 ...
1964 Operation Chrome Dome Map from Sheppard Air Force Base, TX 1966 overview of US airborne alert routes, based on a document used by White House staff.. Operation Chrome Dome was a United States Air Force Cold War-era mission from 1961 to 1968 in which B-52 strategic bomber aircraft armed with thermonuclear weapons remained on continuous airborne alert, flying routes that put them in ...
The Bomber Task Force mission was created as a response to the 2018 National Defense Strategy which called to develop Dynamic Force Employment where the USAF would use its forces to provide "proactive and scalable options for priority missions." [3] The first Bomber Task Force deployment was undertaken by the 23rd Expeditionary Bomb Squadron ...
The HCPD Bomb Squad and the U.S. Air Force EOD from Shaw Air Force Base safely disposed of the ordnance according to their post. ... An aerial map of the Conway Bombing and Gunnery Range sites and ...
Reassigned to: Eighth Air Force on 1 July 1955, (Attached to 7th Air Division 13 September to 3 November 1955). Changed equipment in: 1957 to B-47s, KC-97s. Reassigned to: Second Air Force on 1 January 1959. Reassigned to: Second Air Force, 17th Air Division on 15 July 1959. Changed equipment in: 1959 to B-47s, KC-97s, KC-135s.
Air Force Base, Air Reserve Base or Air Guard Base are used to describe an installation from which aircraft operations can be conducted or from which major activities of importance to Air Force combat, combat support, or training missions can be supported. Air Force Station (sometimes Air Station), Air Reserve Station or Air National Guard ...
Two U.S. Air Force B-1 Lancer bombers, from the 28th Bomb Wing, Ellsworth Air Force Base, S.D., fly over the National Museum of the United States Air Force at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, 18 April 2017, on the 75th anniversary of the Doolittle Raid on Japan. The flyover marked the end of a memorial service commemorating the raid.
The 23rd Bomb Squadron is a United States Air Force unit, assigned to the 5th Bomb Wing. It is stationed at Minot Air Force Base , North Dakota. The mission of the squadron is to fly the Boeing B-52H Stratofortress strategic bomber.