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The wing was established as 509th Bombardment Wing, Very Heavy on 3 November 1947 and organized on 17 November 1947. [6] The initial mission of the 509th Bomb Wing was to carry out strategic bombing missions using Atomic Bombs at the discretion of the President of the United States .
The 509th Operations Group (509 OG) is the flying component of the United States Air Force 509th Bomb Wing (509 BW), assigned to Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri. It is equipped with all 20 of the USAF's B-2 Spirit stealth bombers, flown by its 393rd Bomb Squadron .
315th Bombardment Wing, 18 December 1944; 313th Bombardment Wing, c. June 1945; Second Air Force, 10 October 1945; 58th Bombardment Wing, 17 January 1946; Fifteenth Air Force, 31 March 1946; Source: Fact Sheet – 509 Operations Group (ACC) [88]
On 30 November 1988, SAC announced that the 509th Bomb Wing would divest its FB-111 and KC-135 aircraft, relocate from its then-home station of Pease AFB, New Hampshire which was being realigned as an Air National Guard base pursuant to BRAC, and become the nation's first operational B-2 bomber unit. On 17 December 1993, Whiteman AFB's first B ...
Pease Air National Guard Base is a New Hampshire Air National Guard base located at Portsmouth International Airport at Pease in New Hampshire.It occupies a portion of what was once Pease Air Force Base, a former Strategic Air Command facility with a base-related population of 10,000 and which was home to the 509th Bomb Wing (509 BW) flying the General Dynamics FB-111A.
400th Bombardment Group, 1 March 1943 – 10 April 1944; 509th Bombardment Group, 12 July 1948; 509th Bombardment Wing, 16 June 1952; 817th Air Division, 5 January 1958; 509th Bombardment Wing, 8 July 1958 – 25 June 1965; Strategic Air Command 8 August 1966 (not organized) 509th Bombardment Wing, 2 October 1966; 416th Bombardment Wing, 1 July ...
The Air Force now has the B-61-12 tactical nuclear bomb ready for operational use on its 20 B-2 Spirit stealth bombers.
Laggin' Dragon was the last of the fifteen Silverplate B-29s delivered to the 509th Composite Group for use in the atomic bomb operation. Built at the Glenn L. Martin Aircraft plant at Omaha, Nebraska, it was accepted by the USAAF on June 15, 1945, after most of the 509th CG had already left Wendover Army Air Field, Utah, for North Field, Tinian.