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The group's heritage was continued by the 416th Bombardment Wing (BW), a Strategic Air Command B-52 Stratofortress wing that conducted strategic bombardment training and air refueling operations on a global scale based at Griffiss Air Force Base in New York. 416th BW crews and aircraft deployed to the Pacific during the Vietnam War era to ...
The 416th Bombardment Wing (416 BW), a Strategic Air Command (SAC) B-52G Stratofortress and KC-135R Stratotanker wing that conducted strategic bombardment readiness, conventional bombardment operations and air refueling operations on a global scale, was based at Griffiss AFB. 416 BW crews and aircraft deployed to the Pacific during the Vietnam ...
During the Vietnam War, starting in 1965, SAC would deploy over two complete Bombardment Wings including Bombardment Squadrons, Air Refueling Squadrons, including the Maintenance & Support Squadrons and their personnel to Andersen AFB, Guam (B-52 Bomber and a few supporting tanker aircraft), Kadena AB, Okinawa, (B-52 Bomber & the Primary Tanker Aircraft Base) & Kung Kuan (Later renamed ...
1.44 Griffiss AFB 20 September 1948, Rome, NY (H). ... Namesake: Lt Col Townsend E. Griffiss. 416th Bomb Wing 1962–1991; 4039th Strategic Wing 1958–1963
Inactivated in 1995; K. I. Sawyer AFB closed per BRAC. 416th Bombardment Wing (Heavy), Griffiss AFB, New York; Activated to replace 4039th Strategic Wing B-52G, 1963–1992; B-52H, 1992–1995 668th Bombardment Squadron (a/c from 75th BS) Inactivated in 1995; Griffiss AFB closed per BRAC. 449th Bombardment Wing (Heavy), Kincheloe AFB, Michigan
At: Griffiss AFB, NY. Assigned to: Eighth Air Force. Equipment: B-52s. Reassigned to: Eighth Air Force. 820th Air Division on 5 January 1959; Reassigned to: Eighth Air Force, 6th Air Division on 1 April 1961. Inactivated on: 1 February 1963. Resources absorbed by 416th Bombardment Wing in 1963.
98th Bomb Wing established on: 28 May 1948. Activated on: 12 July 1948. At: Fairchild AFB, WA. Assigned to: Fifteenth Air Force on 12 July 1948. (Attached to the 92nd Bomb Wing from 12 July 1948 to 15 April 1950). Equipment: B-29s. Reassigned to: Second Air Force on 16 May 1950. (Remained attached to 92nd Bomb Wing).
The 801st BW (P) consisted of 28 B-52G Stratofortresses and was formed around a nucleus provided by he 2d Bombardment Wing at Barksdale AFB, Louisiana and drew aircraft from the crews of the 524th BS/379th BW, Wurtsmith AFB, Michigan; the 668th BS/416th BW at Griffiss AFB, New York and from 69th BS/42d BW at Loring AFB, Maine.