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Patch de la 5th Air Force, USAAF (5ème force aérienne des États-Unis pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale) 5th Air Force, USAAF Patch (World War II) Date: 25 January 2013, 14:13:42: Source: File:5th_usaaf.png: Author: User:historicair
(Reassigned from Seventh Air Force, February 1943) 868th Bombardment Squadron (Unattached) (1944–45) (B-24) Formerly 349th Bomb Squadron, 5th Bomb Group. The planes flown by the 868th were often called SB-24s and sometimes LABs (Low Altitude Bomber). They were equipped with SRC-717-B search and navigation radar.
Headquarters, Thirteenth Air Force (23 September – 29 October 1944) 309th Bombardment Wing (28 July – 9 November 1944) 5th Bomb Group (13th AF) (22 September – October 1944) 417th Bombardment Group (9 September – 6 December 1944) 58th Fighter Group (30 August 1944 – 3 April 1944) 348th Fighter Group (26 August 1944 – 16 November 1944)
The Army Air Forces also employed two composite groups with their own TO&Es: the 28th Bomb Group (15 B-24 and 30 B-25), and the 509th Composite Group (15 B-29 and 5 C-54). 19 heavy groups and one light bomb group were to be converted to very heavy groups for duty against Japan, but the war ended before the plan was carried out.
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 ...
The 5th Operations Group (5 OG) is an operational component of the United States Air Force 5th Bomb Wing, stationed at Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota. Its mission is to manage and operate B-52H Stratofortress bombers serve as part of the Air Force's conventional and strategic combat force.
The group was converted to provisional status, redesignated the 13th Air Expeditionary Group and assigned to Pacific Air Forces to activate or inactivate as needed. It has been used primarily to control operations or exercises for Thirteenth Air Force .
In December 2004, for the fourth time in less than four years, the B-1s answered the call to war with all Reaper crew members and most enlisted support staff deployed as members of the 40th Air Expeditionary Group." [1] "In June 2005, the Air Force announced the 13th Bomb Squadron would replace the 325th Bomb Squadron at Whiteman Air Force Base ...