The 17th Air Division is an inactive

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unit. Its last assignment was with

Pacific Air Forces Pacific Air Forces (PACAF) is a Major Command (MAJCOM) of the United States Air Force and is also the air component command of the United States Indo-Pacific Command (USINDOPACOM). PACAF is headquartered at Joint Base Pearl Harbor–Hickam (fo ...

, stationed at

U-Tapao Royal Thai Navy Airfield U-Tapao–Rayong–Pattaya International Airport ( th, ท่าอากาศยานอู่ตะเภา ระยอง–พัทยา; ) also spelled ''Utapao'' and ''U-Taphao'', is a joint civil–military public airport serving ...

, Thailand, where it was inactivated on 1 January 1976.

History

The

air division An air division is an air force or naval air formation that is roughly equivalent to an army division. An air division is usually commanded by a major general and it is composed of multiple wings, groups, air brigades, or equivalently-sized air forc ...

was first activated as the 17th Bombardment Wing on 18 December 1940, and assigned to the

Southeast Air District The points of the compass are a set of horizontal, radially arrayed compass directions (or azimuths) used in navigation and cartography. A compass rose is primarily composed of four cardinal directions—north, east, south, and west—each se ...

. It was assigned the 3d and

27th Bombardment Group 7 (seven) is the natural number following 6 and preceding 8. It is the only prime number preceding a cube. As an early prime number in the series of positive integers, the number seven has greatly symbolic associations in religion, mythology, s ...

s as its operational units, and the 22d Pursuit Wing was attached from January to June 1942. In September 1941, the

wing A wing is a type of fin that produces lift while moving through air or some other fluid. Accordingly, wings have streamlined cross-sections that are subject to aerodynamic forces and act as airfoils. A wing's aerodynamic efficiency is expres ...

was inactivated and its personnel used to form the

3d Air Support Command The 3rd Air Support Command was a United States Army Air Forces command, assigned to the 3rd Air Force throughout its existence. It was organized at Army Air Base, Savannah, Georgia. By early 1942, most of its trained personnel had been lost ...

.Futrell, p. 13 Reactivated as part of

Second Air Force The Second Air Force (2 AF; ''2d Air Force'' in 1942) is a USAF numbered air force responsible for conducting basic military and technical training for Air Force enlisted members and non-flying officers. In World War II the CONUS unit defended ...

in June 1942 as the 17th Bombardment Training Wing. Was the primary training command organization for USAAF heavy bombardment (

B-17 Flying Fortress The Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress is a four-engined heavy bomber developed in the 1930s for the United States Army Air Corps (USAAC). Relatively fast and high-flying for a bomber of its era, the B-17 was used primarily in the European Theater ...

B-24 Liberator The Consolidated B-24 Liberator is an American heavy bomber, designed by Consolidated Aircraft of San Diego, California. It was known within the company as the Model 32, and some initial production aircraft were laid down as export models des ...

) heavy groups during

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from June 1942 until May 1944. Initially, it controlled the third phase of training, in which each bombardment group split into tactical components and operated from squadron sized airfields under simulated combat conditions. Later, the 17th supervised the first and second phases of heavy bombardment group and crew training. In 1943 assumed mission for training

B-29 Superfortress The Boeing B-29 Superfortress is an American four-engined propeller-driven heavy bomber, designed by Boeing and flown primarily by the United States during World War II and the Korean War. Named in allusion to its predecessor, the B-17 Fl ...

Very Heavy bombardment groups prior to their deployment to

Twentieth Air Force The Twentieth Air Force (Air Forces Strategic) (20th AF) is a numbered air force of the United States Air Force Global Strike Command (AFGSC). It is headquartered at Francis E. Warren Air Force Base, Wyoming. 20 AF's primary mission is Interco ...

in the

Pacific Theater The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean (or, depending on definition, to Antarctica) in the south, and is bounded by the continen ...

until April 1946 when it ceased all activity. It also exercised limited supervision over the training of the XXI and XXII Bomber Commands during 1944.

Strategic Air Command

The disbanded wing was reconstituted and redesignated as the 17th Air Division, and activated on 15 July 1959. It gained control of the 340th and the 305th Bombardment Wings at Bunker Hill AFB,

Indiana Indiana () is a U.S. state in the Midwestern United States. It is the 38th-largest by area and the 17th-most populous of the 50 States. Its capital and largest city is Indianapolis. Indiana was admitted to the United States as the 19th s ...

, and the 4040th Air Base Squadron at Richard I. Bong AFB,

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in 1959. The two bombardment wings flew normal SAC alert patrols and participated in special exercises as required. The division lost its bombardment wings and gained missile wings in 1963, assuming responsibility for Titan and Minuteman missiles in

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Kansas Kansas () is a state in the Midwestern United States. Its capital is Topeka, and its largest city is Wichita. Kansas is a landlocked state bordered by Nebraska to the north; Missouri to the east; Oklahoma to the south; and Colorado to the ...

, and later

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. When joined by the 70th Bombardment Wing, on 1 July 1965 with B-52 and KC-135 aircraft, the division reverted to an earlier designation – 17th Strategic Aerospace Division. From 1965 to 1971, the division's units frequently deployed bomber and tanker resources. Arc Light operations in

Southeast Asia Southeast Asia, also spelled South East Asia and South-East Asia, and also known as Southeastern Asia, South-eastern Asia or SEA, is the geographical United Nations geoscheme for Asia#South-eastern Asia, south-eastern region of Asia, consistin ...

, consisting of military operations against enemy forces in

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, drew most of the deployments.

Pacific Air Forces

From 1 July 1975 to 1 January 1976 as part of

, it maintained an effective training program for United States Air Force tactical units in

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. Inactivated as part of the USAF phaseout of activities in Thailand after the end of the

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Lineage

* Constituted as the 17th Bombardment Wing on 3 October 1940 : Activated on 18 December 1940 : Inactivated on 1 September 1941 * Activated on 23 June 1942 : Redesignated 17th Bombardment Training Wing in January 1943 : Redesignated 17th Bombardment Operational Training Wing in April 1943 : Inactivated on 15 November 1943 * Redesignated 17th Bombardment Operational Training Wing (Very Heavy) : Activated on 11 March 1944 : Inactivated on 9 April 1946 : Disbanded on 8 October 1948 * Reconstituted and redesignated 17th Air Division, on 1 July 1959 : Activated on 15 July 1959 : Redesignated as: 17th Strategic Aerospace Division on 15 February 1962 : Redesignated as: 17th Strategic Missile Division on 1 September 1963 : Redesignated as: 17th Strategic Aerospace Division on 1 July 1965 : Inactivated on 30 June 1971 * Redesignated as: 17th Air Division on 24 January 1975 : Activated on 1 July 1975 : Inactivated on 1 January 1976

Assignments

GHQ Air Force The United States Army Air Corps (USAAC) was the aerial warfare service component of the United States Army between 1926 and 1941. After World War I, as early aviation became an increasingly important part of modern warfare, a philosophical ri ...

, 18 December 1940 * Southeast Air District (later, Third Air Force), 16 January 1941 – 1 September 1941 : Attached to

III Bomber Command The III Bomber Command is a disbanded United States Air Force headquarters. It was established in September 1941, shortly before the attack on Pearl Harbor to command bomber units assigned to 3rd Air Force. Following the entry of the United St ...

, 23 April – 1 September 1941 *

, 23 June 1942 *

II Bomber Command The II Bomber Command is a disbanded United States Air Force unit. It was established in September 1941, shortly before the attack on Pearl Harbor to command heavy bomber units assigned to Second Air Force. Following the entry of the United St ...

, 15 May 1943 * Second Air Force, 6 October – 15 November 1943; 11 March 1944 *

Fifteenth Air Force The Fifteenth Air Force (15 AF) is a numbered air force of the United States Air Force's Air Combat Command (ACC). It is headquartered at Shaw Air Force Base. It was reactivated on 20 August 2020, merging the previous units of the Ninth Air Force ...

, 31 March – 9 April 1946 * Second Air Force, 15 July 1959 *

Eighth Air Force The Eighth Air Force (Air Forces Strategic) is a numbered air force (NAF) of the United States Air Force's Air Force Global Strike Command (AFGSC). It is headquartered at Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana. The command serves as Air Force ...

, 1 July 1963 * Fifteenth Air Force, 31 March 1970 – 30 June 1971 *

, 1 July 1975 – 1 January 1976

Components

Commands

XXI Bomber Command The XXI Bomber Command was a unit of the Twentieth Air Force in the Mariana Islands for strategic bombing during World War II. The command was established at Smoky Hill Army Air Field, Kansas on 1 March 1944. After a period of organization an ...

: attached c. 15 April – 20 October 1944 * XXII Bomber Command: attached 14 August 1944 – 13 February 1945

Wings

* 13th Bombardment Wing: attached 17 August – 17 October 1945 * 20th Bombardment Wing: attached c. 15 August 1945 – January 1946 * 22d Pursuit Wing: attached 16 January – c. 16 June 1941 * 41st Bombardment Wing: attached 17 March – 4 July 1943 *

47th Bombardment Wing The 47th Flying Training Wing is a United States Air Force pilot training wing based at Laughlin Air Force Base, near Del Rio, Texas. It is one of five pilot training units in the Air Force's Air Education and Training Command which conducts ...

: attached c. 15 August 1945 – January 1946 *

70th Bombardment Wing The SCC68070 is a Philips Semiconductors-branded, Motorola 68000-based 16/32-bit processor produced under license. While marketed externally as a high-performance microcontroller, it has been almost exclusively used combined with the Philips SC ...

: 1 July 1965 – 31 December 1969 * 72d Bombardment Operational Training Wing: attached 20 August – c. 6 October 1943 *

73d Bombardment Wing __NOTOC__ AD 73 ( LXXIII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Domitian and Messalinus (or, less frequently, year 826 '' ...

: attached c. 15 April – 17 July 1944 * 96th Bombardment Wing: attached 16 August – 17 October 1945 * 305th Bombardment Wing: 15 July 1959 – 1 January 1961 *

308th Strategic Missile Wing 3 (three) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number following 2 and preceding 4, and is the smallest odd prime number and the only prime preceding a square number. It has religious or cultural significance in many societie ...

: 31 March 1970 – 30 June 1971 * 313th Bombardment Wing: attached 23 April – 5 November 1944 * 314th Bombardment Wing: attached 23 April – 9 December 1944 * 315th Bombardment Wing: attached 17 July 1944 – June 1945 * 316th Bombardment Wing: attached 14 August 1944 – 7 July 1945 * 340th Bombardment Wing: 15 July 1959 – 1 September 1963 * 351st Strategic Missile Wing: 1 February 1963 – 30 June 1971 * 381st Strategic Missile Wing: 1 July 1963 – 30 June 1971 *

500th Air Refueling Wing 5 (five) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number, and cardinal number, following 4 and preceding 6, and is a prime number. It has attained significance throughout history in part because typical humans have five digits on eac ...

: 1 January – 1 July 1963 * 4045th Air Refueling Wing: 9 September 1960 – 1 January 1963 * 432lst Strategic Wing: 1 October 1959 – 15 August 1962

Groups

2d Bombardment Group 002, 0O2, O02, OO2, or 002 may refer to: Airports *0O2, Baker Airport *O02, Nervino Airport Astronomy *1996 OO2, the minor planet 7499 L'Aquila *1990 OO2, the asteroid 9175 Graun Fiction *002, fictional British 00 Agent *'' 002 Operazione Luna' ...

: attached 2 November 1942 13 March 1943 * 3d Bombardment Group: 18 December 1940 – 1 September 1941 *

6th Bombardment Group Alec Trevelyan (006) is a fictional character and the main antagonist in the 1995 James Bond film '' GoldenEye'', the first film to feature actor Pierce Brosnan as Bond. Trevelyan is portrayed by actor Sean Bean. The likeness of Bean as Ale ...

: attached 5 May – 18 November 1944 *

9th Bombardment Group 9 (nine) is the natural number following and preceding . Evolution of the Arabic digit In the beginning, various Indians wrote a digit 9 similar in shape to the modern closing question mark without the bottom dot. The Kshatrapa, Andhra and ...

: attached 5 May – 18 November 1944 * 16th Bombardment Group: attached 5 May 1944 – June 1945 *

19th Bombardment Group 19 (nineteen) is the natural number following 18 and preceding 20. It is a prime number. Mathematics 19 is the eighth prime number, and forms a sexy prime with 13, a twin prime with 17, and a cousin prime with 23. It is the third full re ...

: attached c. 15 April – 7 December 1944 * 27th Bombardment Group: 18 December 1940 – 1 September 1941 * 29th Bombardment Group: attached c. 15 April – 7 December 1944 * 34th Bombardment Group: attached 2 November – 14 December 1942 * 39th Bombardment Group: attached c. 15 April 1944 – 8 January 1945 * 44th Bombardment Group: attached 24 July 1945 – 30 March 1946 * 45th Bombardment Group: attached 15 January – 17 June 1941 * 46th Bombardment Group: attached 15 January – 19 May 1941 * 48th Bombardment Group: attached 15 January – 21 May 1941 * 56th Pursuit Group: attached 15 January – 16 May 1941 *

88th Bombardment Group The 88th Bombardment Group is an inactive United States Air Force unit. During World War II, the group served as a training unit for Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress units and aircrews. It was inactivated in May 1944, when the Army Air Forces reorg ...

: attached c. 1 November 1942 – November 1943 *

91st Bombardment Group The 91st Bomb Group (Heavy) was an air combat unit of the United States Army Air Forces during the Second World War. Classified as a heavy bombardment group, the 91st operated B-17 Flying Fortress aircraft and was known unofficially as "The Ragg ...

: attached c. 26 June – 24 August 1942 * 93d Bombardment Group: attached 24 July 1945 – 30 March 1946 *

95th Bombardment Group 95 or 95th may refer to: * 95 (number) * one of the years 95 BC, AD 95, 1995, 2095, etc. * 95th Division (disambiguation) * 95th Regiment ** 95th Regiment of Foot (disambiguation) * 95th Squadron (disambiguation) * Atomic number 95: americium * ...

: attached 2 November 1942 – 18 April 1943 * 96th Bombardment Group: attached 28 September – 30 October 1942 * 98th Bombardment Group: attached c. 6 May – 10 November 1945 *

99th Bombardment Group The 99th Infantry Division was formed in 1942 and deployed overseas in 1944. The "Checkerboard" or "Battle Babies" division landed at the French port of Le Havre and proceeded northeast to Belgium. During the heavy fighting in the Battle of the ...

: attached 2 – c. 16 November 1942 *

100th Bombardment Group 1 (one, unit, unity) is a number representing a single or the only entity. 1 is also a numerical digit and represents a single unit of counting or measurement. For example, a line segment of ''unit length'' is a line segment of length 1 ...

: attached 2 – c. 29 November 1942 *

302d Bombardment Group 3 (three) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number following 2 and preceding 4, and is the smallest odd prime number and the only prime preceding a square number. It has religious or cultural significance in many societie ...

: attached 1–30 September 1942 *

303d Bombardment Group 3 (three) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number following 2 and preceding 4, and is the smallest odd prime number and the only prime preceding a square number. It has religious or cultural significance in many societie ...

: attached 1 – c. 23 August 1942 *

304th Bombardment Group The 304th Bombardment Group is an inactive United States Army Air Forces (AAF) unit. Its last assignment was with the Army Air Forces Antisubmarine Command, based at Langley Field, Virginia. It was inactivated on 30 December 1942 History The gro ...

: attached 2 November – c. December 1942 * 305th Bombardment Group: attached 1–31 August 1942 *

306th Bombardment Group 3 (three) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number following 2 and preceding 4, and is the smallest odd prime number and the only prime preceding a square number. It has religious or cultural significance in many societie ...

: attached 1 July – 1 August 1942 * 307th Bombardment Group: attached 30 September – 20 October 1942 * 330th Bombardment Group: c. 15 April 1944 – 7 January 1945 *

331st Bombardment Group 331st may refer to: * 331st Air Expeditionary Group, inactive United States Air Force unit *331st Fighter-Interceptor Squadron, former unit of the United States Air Force * 331st Guards Airborne Regiment, formation of the Russian Airborne Troops, ...

: attached 12 July 1944 – July 1945 * 333d Bombardment Group: attached 1 September – 1 November 1942; 7 July 1944 – August 1945 *

346th Bombardment Group The 346th Bombardment Group is a former United States Army Air Forces unit. It was last assigned to the 316th Bombardment Wing at Kadena Airfield, Okinawa, where it was inactivated on 30 June 1946. The group was originally a heavy bomber train ...

: attached 18 August 1944 – September 1945 * 351st Bombardment Group: attached November – December 1942 *

376th Bombardment Group 376th may refer to: *376th Air Expeditionary Wing, inactive wing of the United States Air Force, last stationed at the Transit Center at Manas International Airport, Kyrgyz Republic *376th Air Refueling Squadron, inactive United States Air Force un ...

: attached 8 May – 10 November 1945 * 379th Bombardment Group: attached 3 – c. 18 November 1942 * 381st Bombardment Group: attached c. 1 December 1942 – c. 2 January 1943 *

382d Bombardment Group The 382d Bombardment Group is a former United States Army Air Forces unit. It was last stationed at Camp Anza, California, where it was inactivated on 4 January 1946. The group was active from 1942 to 1944 as a heavy bomber training unit. It ...

: attached 25 August 1944 – September 1945 *

383d Bombardment Group The 383d Bombardment Group is a former United States Army Air Forces unit. It was last stationed at Camp Anza, California, where it was deactivated on 4 January 1946. The group was active from 1942 to 1944 as a heavy bomber training unit. It w ...

: attached 12 November 1942 – c. 25 October 1943; 28 August 1944 – September 1945 * 385th Bombardment Group: attached 1 February – June 1943 *

390th Bombardment Group 39 may refer to: * 39 (number), the natural number following 38 and preceding 40 * one of the years: ** 39 BC ** AD 39 ** 1939 ** 2039 * ''39'' (album), a 2000 studio album by Mikuni Shimokawa * "'39", a 1975 song by Queen * "Thirty Nine", a ...

: attached 26 January – 4 July 1943 * 393d Bombardment Group: attached 16 February – c. 2 March 1943 *

395th Bombardment Group The 395th Bombardment Group is an inactive United States Air Force unit. It was part of Second Air Force, serving as a heavy bomber training unit from February 1943 until it was deactivated on 1 April 1944 in a reorganization of Army Air Forces ...

: attached 16 February – c. 24 October 1943 *

396th Bombardment Group The 396th Bombardment Group is a former United States Army Air Forces unit. It was active during World War II as a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress Operational Training Unit, training newly organized units, then as a Replacement Training Unit for ai ...

: attached 10 April – c. 4 November 1943 *

398th Bombardment Group 398th may refer to: * 398th Air Expeditionary Group, provisional United States Air Force unit assigned to the United States Air Forces in Europe * 398th Bombardment Squadron, inactive United States Air Force unit last assigned with the 92d Operatio ...

: attached 1 March – c. 4 April 1943; 29 April – November 1943 *

401st Bombardment Group The 401st Air Expeditionary Group is a provisional United States Air Force unit assigned to United States Air Forces in Europe to be activated or inactivated at any time as needed. It is stationed at Ramstein Air Base, Germany. The group was fi ...

: attached 1 April – 1 October 1943 * 447th Bombardment Group: attached 1 May – November 1943 * 448th Bombardment Group: attached 11 September – November 1943; 25 July 1945 – c. 30 March 1946 * 449th Bombardment Group: attached 24 July 1945 – c. 30 March 1946 *

450th Bombardment Group The 450th Fighter-Day Group is an inactive United States Air Force unit. It was last assigned to the 450th Fighter-Day Wing of Tactical Air Command (TAC) at Foster AFB, Texas. It was inactivated on 11 December 1957. The 450th Bombardment Grou ...

: attached c. 26 July – 15 October 1945 * 452d Bombardment Group: attached 1 June – November 1943 *

456th Bombardment Group Activated in June 1943 as a heavy bombardment group. Trained with B-24 Liberators for duty overseas. Moved to Italy, December 1943 – January 1944. Began combat with Fifteenth Air Force in February 1944, operating chiefly against strategic tar ...

: attached 17 August – 17 October 1945 *

457th Bombardment Group 457th may refer to: *457th Air Expeditionary Group, provisional United States Air Force unit assigned to the Air Combat Command *457th Airlift Squadron (457 AS), part of the 375th Airlift Wing at Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland *457th Fighter Squa ...

: attached 1 July – November 1943 * 458th Bombardment Group: 25 July – c. 20 August 1945 * 463d Bombardment Group: attached 1 August – c. 4 November 1943 *

466th Bombardment Group The 466th Air Expeditionary Group of the United States Air Force provides support for airmen at stations across Afghanistan. This includes "joint expeditionary tasking" airmen, airmen whose units are assigned to a headquarters other than the one ...

: attached 25 July – c. 14 August 1945 *

467th Bombardment Group The 467th Bombardment Group is an inactive United States Army Air Forces unit. Its last assignment was to the Strategic Air Command, being stationed at Clovis Army Airfield, New Mexico. It was inactivated on 4 August 1946. During World War II, ...

: attached 25 July 1945 – c. 30 March 1946 *

483d Bombardment Group 483rd or 483d may refer to: * 483d Bombardment Squadron or 303d Air Refueling Squadron, inactive United States Air Force unit * 483d Tactical Airlift Wing, tactical airlift and composite wing assigned to Pacific Air Forces during the Vietnam War S ...

: attached 20 September – c. 5 November 1943 * 484th Bombardment Group: attached 20 September – November 1943 *

485th Bombardment Group 485th may refer to: * 485th Aero Construction Squadron, part of the 27th Special Operations Wing at Cannon Air Force Base, New Mexico * 485th Air Expeditionary Wing, provisional United States Air Force unit assigned to the Air Combat Command * 485t ...

: attached 24 July 1945 – 30 March 1946 *

488th Bombardment Group 488th may refer to: * 488th Bombardment Group, an inactive United States Air Force unit * 488th Bombardment Squadron, an inactive United States Air Force unit See also * 488 (number) * 488 (disambiguation) * 488, the year 488 (CDLXXXVIII) of the J ...

: attached 1 October – c. 31 October 1943 *

489th Bombardment Group The 489th Bomb Group is a unit of the United States Air Force. It is assigned to the 307th Bomb Wing, and is stationed at Dyess Air Force Base, Texas. The group is a reserve associate unit of the 7th Bomb Wing at Dyess. During World War II, t ...

: attached c. 28 February – c. 2 April 1945; c. 10 July – September 1945 *

497th Bombardment Group The 497th Bombardment Group was a group of the United States Army Air Forces. The unit was inactivated on 31 March 1946. The unit was part of the United States Army Air Forces and Twentieth Air Force during World War II. The 497th BG engaged ...

: attached c. 15 April – 18 July 1944 *

498th Bombardment Group 498th may refer to: *498th Bombardment Squadron, inactive United States Air Force unit *498th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron, inactive United States Air Force unit *498th Nuclear Systems Wing The 498th Nuclear Systems Wing was a wing of the United ...

: attached c. 15 April – 13 July 1944 *

499th Bombardment Group 499th may refer to: *499th Air Refueling Wing, aerial refueling unit located at Westover AFB, Massachusetts *499th Bombardment Squadron, inactive United States Air Force unit *499th Fighter-Bomber Squadron The 499th Fighter-Bomber Squadron is ...

: attached c. 15 April – 22 July 1944 * 500th Bombardment Group: attached 16 April – 23 July 1944 *

501st Bombardment Group 5 (five) is a number, numeral (linguistics), numeral and numerical digit, digit. It is the natural number, and cardinal number, following 4 and preceding 6, and is a prime number. It has attained significance throughout history in part because typ ...

: attached 1 June 1944 – June 1945 * 502d Bombardment Group: attached 5 June 1944 – July 1945 *

504th Bombardment Group The 504th Bombardment Group (504th BG) was a World War II United States Army Air Forces combat organization. The unit served primarily in the Pacific Ocean theater of World War II as part of Twentieth Air Force. The 504th Bomb Group's aircraft ...

: attached c. 15 April – 5 November 1944 *

505th Bombardment Group The 505th Bombardment Group is an inactive United States Air Force unit. Its last assignment was with Thirteenth Air Force, stationed at Clark Field, Philippines. It was inactivated on 30 June 1946. The unit served primarily in the Pacific Oce ...

: attached c. 15 April – 6 November 1944.

Stations

Hunter Army Air Field Hunter Army Airfield , located in Savannah, Georgia, United States, is a military airfield and subordinate installation to Fort Stewart located in Hinesville, Georgia. Hunter features a runway that is 11,375 feet (3,468 m) long and an aircr ...

, Georgia, 18 December 1940 – 1 September 1941 *

Rapid City Army Air Base Rapids are sections of a river where the river bed has a relatively steep gradient, causing an increase in water velocity and turbulence. Rapids are hydrological features between a ''run'' (a smoothly flowing part of a stream) and a ''cascade''. ...

, South Dakota, 23 June 1942 *

Walla Walla Army Air Field Walla Walla Regional Airport is a public airport in Walla Walla County, Washington, in the western United States. It is northeast of central Walla Walla, and is owned by the Port of Walla Walla. History World War II The airport was the locat ...

, Washington, c. 1 July – 15 November 1943 *

Smoky Hill Army Air Field Salina Regional Airport , formerly Salina Municipal Airport, is three miles southwest of Salina, Kansas, United States. The airport is owned by the Salina Airport Authority. It is used for general aviation, with service by one passenger airline, ...

, Kansas, 11 March 1944 *

Colorado Springs Army Air Base Peterson Space Force Base, previously Peterson Air Force Base, Peterson Field, and Army Air Base, Colorado Springs, is a U.S. Space Force Base that shares an airfield with the adjacent Colorado Springs Municipal Airport and is home to the Nor ...

, Colorado, April 1944 *

Grand Island Army Air Field Grand Island Army Airfield was a United States Army Air Forces airfield which operated from 1942 to 1946. After its closure, the base was reopened as Central Nebraska Regional Airport. History Grand Island Army Airfield was opened in 1942, a ...

, Nebraska, May 1944 *

Sioux City Army Air Base Iowa () is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States, bordered by the Mississippi River to the east and the Missouri River and Big Sioux River to the west. It is bordered by six states: Wisconsin to the northeast, Illinois to the ...

, Iowa, February 1945 *

Fort Worth Army Air Field Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Fort Worth (abbreviated NAS JRB Fort Worth) includes Carswell Field, a military airbase located west of the central business district of Fort Worth, in Tarrant County, Texas, United States. This military ai ...

, Texas, December 1945 – 9 April 1946. *

Whiteman Air Force Base Whiteman Air Force Base is a United States Air Force base located just south of Knob Noster, Missouri, United States. The base is the current home of the B-2 Spirit bomber. It is named for 2nd Lt George Whiteman, who was killed during the attack ...

, Missouri, 15 July 1959 – 30 June 1971 *

, Thailand, 1 July 1975 – 1 January 1976

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