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The 90th Operations Group operates 150 LGM-30G Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missiles on full alert 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. [3] Its missiles are dispersed in hardened silos over a 9,600-square-mile (25,000 km 2) area in three states to protect against attack and are connected to underground missile alert facilities through a system of hardened cables.
B-24D-170-CO Liberator 42-72956 on Mission to Wewak, New Guinea, 24 February 1944. The squadron was first organized as the 321st Bombardment Squadron at Key Field, Mississippi in April 1942 as a Consolidated B-24 Liberator unit and one of the original squadrons of the 90th Bombardment Group.
"Jolly Rogers" of the 90th Bombardment Group on a mission, 1943 B-24J with the distinct nose turret, probably in 1944. The squadron moved to Willow Run Airport, Michigan for conversion training on newly manufactured Ford Liberators. Assigned to VII Bomber Command with B-24Ds, the unit moved to Hickam Field, Hawaii in September.
"Jolly Rogers" of the 90th Bombardment Group on a mission, 1943 B-24J with the distinct nose turret, probably in 1944. The squadron moved to Willow Run Airport, Michigan for conversion training on newly manufactured Ford Liberators. Assigned to VII Bomber Command with B-24Ds, the unit moved to Hickam Field, Hawaii in September.
The aircraft, part of the 321st Squadron, 90th Bombardment Group based at Iron Range was returning with four other B-24s from a bombing raid on a Japanese troop convoy about 80 km north of Buna, Papua New Guinea. "Little Eva" lost touch with the other aircraft and returned to the base on its own.
Fireworks the diameter of bowling balls were among over 75 tons of illegal fireworks seized by authorities in the South Bay.
43d Bombardment Group (14 September 1942 – 10 December 1943) 90th Bombardment Group (10 February – December 1943) 345th Bombardment Group (5 June 1943 – 18 January 1944) 8th Fighter Group (16 May – 23 December 1943) 49th Fighter Group (9 October 1942 – March 1943) 348th Fighter Group (23 June – 16 December 1943)
The 90th Missile Wing is a component of Twentieth Air Force, stationed at Francis E. Warren Air Force Base and equipped with LGM-30G Minuteman III Missiles. It has served at Warren as a component of Strategic Air Command, Air Combat Command, Air Force Space Command and Air Force Global Strike Command since 1963.