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The second predecessor of the group was activated in October 1952 as the 340th Bombardment Wing as the Air Force reopened Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri. It flew Boeing B-47 Stratojets at Whiteman until September 1963, as the B-47 began to be withdrawn from Strategic Air Command operations.
In 1942, the U.S. Army Air Corps selected the site of the present-day base to be the home of Sedalia Glider Base, a training base for WACO glider pilots.In May 1942, construction workers began building a railroad spur for the new air base in an area known to locals as the "Blue Flats" because of the color of the soil.
The USAF again activated the unit as the 20th Reconnaissance Squadron on 1 January 2011 at Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri. A geographically separated unit, the squadron is assigned to the 432d Operations Group [1] of the 432d Wing, both of which are located at Creech Air Force Base, Nevada. The activation ceremony for the squadron, held on ...
Hanscom Air Force Base: Lincoln: Massachusetts: Air Force Materiel Command: 66th Air Base Group: Non-flying installation, hosting the Electronic Systems Center, part of the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center. [26] Hill Air Force Base: Ogden: Utah
1.95 Sedalia AFB (Whiteman AFB 3 Dec 1955), ... Present name (Future name and date of name change), Location. ... 449th Bomb Wing 1962–1977;
Its 27 operational Silverplate B-29s (the 309th had ultimately received 53 of the 65 produced) were transferred in 1949 to the 97th Bomb Wing at Biggs Air Force Base, El Paso, Texas, when the group converted to B-50D Superfortresses. The B-50D was the last derivative of the B-29 family and designed specifically for the atomic bombing mission.
Grenier AFB, New Hampshire (1947–1949) 82nd Fighter Group; Hill AFB, Utah (23 December 1975 – 1 June 1992) 388th Fighter Wing; Holloman AFB, New Mexico (1 January 1971 – 1 June 1992) 366th Fighter Wing (1963–1966) 49th Fighter Wing (1968–1992) 479th Tactical Training Wing (1977–1992) Homestead AFB, Florida (1 July 1968 – 1 June 1992)
The 358th Fighter Squadron is part of the 495th Fighter Group at Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri.The squadron was reactivated there in 2015. The squadron was formerly part of the 355th Operations Group at Davis–Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona, operating the Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II aircraft conducting close air support missions, until its 2014 inactivation.