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The Fifteenth Air Force (15 AF) is a numbered air force of the United States Air Force's Air Combat Command (ACC). It is headquartered at Shaw Air Force Base.It was reactivated on 20 August 2020, merging the previous units of the Ninth Air Force and Twelfth Air Force into a new numbered air force responsible for generating and presenting Air Combat Command's conventional forces.
The 450th Bombardment Group was originally activated in 1943 and saw combat during World War II as a B-24 Liberator heavy bombardment group under Fifteenth Air Force in Italy. They were known as "The Cottontails" because the vertical stabilizers of the bombers were painted white.
Twelfth Air Force had several B-17 Flying Fortress groups which were transferred from VIII Bomber Command in England when the command was formed in the fall of 1942. In Tunisia , the Liberator-equipped 98th and 376th Bombardment Groups were briefly transferred from Ninth Air Force in October 1943 to the command.
Assigned to: Fifteenth Air Force. (Attached to 92nd Bomb Wing from 2 to 31 January 1951). Equipment: B-29s, RB-29s, TB-29s. Reassigned to: Strategic Air Command, 21st Air Division on 14 March 1951. Moved to: Forbes AFB, KS, on 14 March 1951. Reassigned to: Fifteenth Air Force, 21st Air Division on 16 October 1952.
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 Foggia Airfield Complex was a series of World War II military airfields located within a 40 km (25 mi) radius of Foggia, in the Province of Foggia, Italy.The airfields were used by the United States Army Air Forces' Fifteenth Air Force as part of the strategic bombardment campaign against Nazi Germany in 1944 and 1945, as well as the Twelfth Air Force, the British Royal Air Force and the ...
The combined heavy bomber forces in the Mediterranean were then designated as the Fifteenth Air Force, with all B-17 groups remaining assigned to the 5th Bombardment Wing. Fifteenth Air Force's mission was to carry out long distance bombardment missions against enemy targets in Southern and Central Europe.
451st Bomb Group B-24 # 44-50443 displaying 49th bomb wing markings over Germany, March 19, 1945. The upper tail surface and circle were red in color. In June, 1944, the Fifteenth Air Force adopted a color-symbol scheme to identify its groups and wings.