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The wing activated as the 306th Bombardment Wing, Medium on 1 September 1950 at MacDill AFB, Florida.Upon activation, the 306th Bombardment Group, already stationed at MacDill, was assigned as its operational component, but four months later the group's flying squadrons were attached directly to the wing after and it became a paper organization.
McCoy Air Force Base was named for Colonel Michael Norman Wright McCoy (born 1905) on 7 May 1958. Col McCoy was killed on 9 October 1957 in the crash of a B-47 Stratojet (DB-47B-35-BW), AF Serial No. 51-2177, of the 447th Bombardment Squadron, 321st Bombardment Wing, which suffered wing failure northwest of downtown Orlando, Florida while taking part in a practice demonstration during the ...
In February 1951, the group became non-operational and its squadrons were attached to the 306th Bombardment Wing at MacDill AFB, Florida. [8] The 306th was inactivated as a group on 16 June 1952 and its operational squadrons were reassigned to the 306th Bombardment Wing as SAC converted its bomb groups to the dual deputy organization.
The first operational B-47B Medium bombers were delivered to SAC in July 1951 to the 306th Bombardment Wing, MacDill AFB, Florida.SAC's last two B-47E bombers went to storage on 11 February 1966 from the 98th Bombardment Wing, Lincoln AFB, Nebraska.
306th Bombardment Wing (Heavy), McCoy AFB, Florida; Activated to replace: 4047th Strategic Wing B-52D, 1963–1973 367th Bombardment Squadron (a/c from 347 BS) Inactivated in 1974; McCoy AFB closed. Became 306th Strategic Wing at RAF Mildenhall, UK in 1975. 307th Strategic Wing, U-Tapao RTNAF, Thailand; B-52D, 1973–1975
B-47Es of the division's 306th Bombardment Wing [b]. The 823d Air Division was activated 1 June 1956 at Homestead Air Force Base, Florida when the 19th Bombardment Wing moved to Homestead from Pinecastle Air Force Base to join the 379th Bombardment Wing.
The attached 306th Bombardment Group transferred to its parent wing on 1 September 1950, and until 10 February 1951, the 307th Wing had no tactical mission. On that date, wing resources were used to man the 6th Air Division at MacDill, and the wing deployed without personnel to Kadena, where it absorbed resources of the 307th Bombardment Group ...
A "D" model (tail number 56-669, call sign "Straw 02") with the 306th Bombardment Wing, March AFB, California, assigned to the 43rd Strategic Wing at Andersen AFB, Guam, was hit by a SA-2 surface-to-air missile. When the B-52 was over the target area, the missile detonated under the aircraft.