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The 44th Missile Wing (44 MW) is an inactive United States Air Force unit. Its last assignment was with Twentieth Air Force, being assigned to Ellsworth AFB, South Dakota. It was inactivated on 4 July 1994. For over 40 years the 44th was a front-line Strategic Air Command wing, initially as a B-47 Stratojet medium bomber
The 44th SMW executed the unique 'Long Life' test of a Minuteman ICBM. The 68th Strategic Missile Squadron performed the only launch of a United States ICBM from an operational inland US missile site from LF November-02 (N-02) on 1 March 1965. The first stage was loaded with only enough propellant for seven seconds of burn time and the upper ...
This is a list of missile wings activated by the United States Air Force during and after the Cold War.Although most of these wings included the word "missile" in their designations, the majority of units operating Convair SM-65 Atlas and Martin SM-68A Titan I intercontinental ballistic missiles were strategic wings or strategic aerospace wings, which combined missile, bomber and air refueling ...
For the next decade, the wing had no tactical components assigned, but it used attached KC-135 tankers and crews furnished by other Strategic Air Command wings to provide air refueling support to meet operational commitments of various commands in the eastern Atlantic, most of Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East.
It was inactivated on 30 June 1971. Established as the Strategic Wing (Provisional), 72 in late 1972 at Andersen AFB, Guam, with approximately 100 B-52Gs. The Strategic Wing (Provisional), 72 flew 8,010 sorties over South Vietnam, North Vietnam, and Cambodia and flew the last sorties of the Vietnam War on 15 August 1973. The wing lost 6 B-52Gs ...
44th Bombardment Wing; Lake Charles (later Chennault) AFB, Louisiana Second Air Force, 25 Apr 1953 – 15 Jun 1960, B-47B/E 66th Bombardment Squadron 67th Bombardment Squadron 68th Bombardment Squadron 506th Bombardment Squadron (1958–1960)* Inactivated 15 June 1960; became 44th Strategic Missile Wing at Ellsworth. 68th Bombardment Wing
44th Bombardment Group, 2 January 1951 (attached to 44th Bombardment Wing after 10 February 1951) 44th Bombardment Wing, 16 June 1952; Department of the Air Force, 15 June 1960 (not organized) Strategic Air Command, 19 March 1962 (not organized) 44th Strategic Missile Wing, 1 July 1962 [7] 44th Operations Group, 1 September 1991 – 1 September ...
Redesignated as the 44th Operations Group (44 OG) within the Strategic Air Command and activated on 1 September 1991 under the "Objective Wing" concept adopted by the Air Force. The ICBM squadrons of the renamed 44th Missile Wing were reassigned to the group.