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The 98th was reactivated on 1 July 1947 and equipped with B-29 Superfortresses at Spokane Army Air Field, Washington. In 1948, it carried out a 90-day deployment to Kadena Air Base , Okinawa. During this period, the 98th lost two B-29s; and a Douglas C-54 Skymaster returning to the US with 98th personnel ditched in the Pacific.
Bomber Command aircraft had not been designed for that kind of attack, and airframe fatigue increased. All Valiants were grounded in October 1964 and permanently withdrawn from service in January 1965. [60] Bomber Command's other main function was to provide tanker aircraft to the RAF. The Valiant was the first bomber used as a tanker ...
Bomber Command is an organisational military unit, generally subordinate to the air force of a country.The best known were in Britain and the United States.A Bomber Command is generally used for strategic bombing (although at times, e.g. during the Normandy Landings, may be used for tactical bombing), and is composed of bombers (i.e. planes used to bomb targets).
The 17th Bombardment Group was moved to the new airfield from March Field, California and was equipped with the Douglas B-18 Bolo medium bomber. [ 5 ] Following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on 6 December 1941, the 17th Bombardment Group flew anti-submarine patrols off the West Coast of the United States with the new North American B-25 ...
Air Force Combat Command, 28 March 1941 – 12 March 1942; V Air Support Command (redesignated: Ninth Air Force), 23 July – 28 October 1942; 5th Bombardment Wing, 10–31 July 1942; VIII Ground Air Support Command, 28 April – 29 May 1942; 10th Ferrying Squadron, 10 April 1942 – 1 March 1943; Transatlantic Sector, AAF Ferrying Command
During World War II, it was one of the primary B-17 Flying Fortress heavy strategic bombardment wings of VIII Bomber Command and later, Eighth Air Force. Its last assignment was with the Continental Air Forces, based at McChord Field, Washington. It was inactivated on 7 November 1945.
The base was renamed Larson Air Force Base was named in honor of Major Donald A. Larson, USAAF, in May 1950. [5] [6] Born and raised in Yakima, Washington, Larson was a fighter pilot and ace [7] who flew 57 combat missions in Europe during World War II. He was killed in action while assigned to the VIII Fighter Command 505th Fighter Squadron.
Operation Argument, [1] after the war dubbed Big Week, [1] was a sequence of raids by the United States Army Air Forces and RAF Bomber Command from 20 to 25 February 1944, as part of the Combined Bomber Offensive against Nazi Germany.