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3rd Attack Group sign A-20 aircraft of the 89th Bomb Squadron U.S. A-20 Havoc of the 89th Squadron, 3rd Attack Group, at the moment it clears a Japanese merchant ship following a successful skip bombing attack. Wewak, New Guinea, March 1944 8th Bomb squadron personnel posing in front of a A-24 B-25 and crew from the 3rd Bomb Group
The 3rd Bombardment Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit. Its last assignment was with the 111th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing, based at Travis Air Force Base , California . It was inactivated on 1 January 1953.
The 3rd Bombardment Group, then back under control of the 3rd Bombardment Wing, continued its night interdiction missions against targets in North Korea. [3] The 3rd Bombardment Group physically rejoined its parent wing when both moved to Kunsan Air Base (K-8), South Korea in August 1951. Colonel Nils O. Odman, who had assumed command of the ...
The 3rd Air Division was created in England during World War II as the 3rd Bombardment Division, an upper command echelon of the Eighth Air Force. With five combat bomb wings and 14 heavy bomber groups assigned, it was one of the two largest U.S. air combat organizations during World War II.
3rd Bombardment Group, 8 December 1941 - 2 January 1942 [8] 12th Bombardment Group, 18 April – 16 August 1942 [9] 21st Bombardment Group, 11 March – 2 May 1942; 8 May 1942 – 10 October 1943 [10] 30th Bombardment Group: 15 January – 24 May 1941 [11] 46th Bombardment Group, 8 May – c. 8 July 1942; 6 August 1943 – 1 May 1944 [12]
Early on 11 April ten B-25 Mitchell medium bombers of the 3rd Bomb Group and three B-17Es of the 40th Reconnaissance Squadron took off from Batchelor Field and arrived that evening at Del Monte. The small task force, commanded by Maj. Gen. Ralph Royce , had originally planned to break the Japanese blockade of Luzon long enough for supplies to ...
A-20 aircraft of the 3rd Bomb Group, 89th Bomb Squadron Unidentified 1941 serial Douglas A-24-DE Dauntless Dive Bomber, ex 27th Bombardment Group (Light), reassigned to the 8th Squadron of the 3rd Bomb Group, Charters Towers Airfield, Queensland, Australia, 1942.
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.