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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).
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 ...
25th Bombardment Group, 1 February 1940 (attached to VI Bomber Command after 13 December 1943) VI Bomber Command, 17 December 1943; Second Air Force, c. 9 May – 17 June 1944; 341st Bombardment Group, 18 June 1947 – 27 June 1949; 341st Bombardment Wing, 1 September 1955 – 25 June 1961; Strategic Air Command, 2 August 1961 (not organized)
With the arrival of the B-36s, the wing was redesignated as the 7th Bombardment Wing, Heavy on 1 August. B-36s continued to arrive throughout 1948, with the last B-29 being transferred on 6 December to the 97th Bomb Group at Biggs AFB .
When the wing base organization was made permanent in 1948, the wing was redesignated as the 7th Bombardment Wing, Heavy on 1 August. [2] In November 1948, B-36B aircraft began to join the B-36As. On 7 December one of the new B-36Bs flew a nonstop simulated bombing mission to Hawaii, dropping a 10,000 lb simulated bombload in the ocean.
The 444th was assigned to the first B-29 Superfortress wing, the 58th Bombardment Wing. After a period of organization at Davis-Monthan the squadron moved to Great Bend Army Air Field , Kansas. for training, initially flying Boeing B-17 Flying Fortresses , Consolidated B-24 Liberators and Martin B-26 Marauders . [ 4 ]
This page currently focuses on one of the two historical categories of USAF wings: "AFCON" (Headquarters (US) Air Force CONtrolled) units or "permanent" units, which during the Cold War period were readily distinguished by having one, two or three digit designations, such as the 1st Fighter Wing, 60th Military Airlift Wing, 355th Fighter Wing, and could go through a series of inactivations and ...
The flying organizations within Tenth Air Force include fighter units equipped with the F-16 Fighting Falcon and A-10 Thunderbolt II; air rescue units equipped with the HC-130 Hercules and the HH-60 Pave Hawk helicopter; a bomb wing equipped with the B-52 Stratofortress; a special operations unit equipped with the C-145A Skytruck and the U-28 ...