Bombardment units of the United States Air Force

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 87. Chapters: List of United States Air Force bomb squadrons, 509th Composite Group, 7th Operations Group, 97th Air Mobility Wing, 320th Air Expeditionary Wing, 449th Air Expeditionary Group, 92nd Operations Group, 11th Wing, 5th Operations Group, 509th Operations Group, 70th Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Wing, 98th Range Wing, 93d Air Ground Operations Wing, 98th Operations Group, 97th Operations Group, 17th Training Wing, 484th Air Expeditionary Wing, 456th Bombardment Wing, 461st Bombardment Wing, 28th Operations Group, 17th Training Group, 385th Air Expeditionary Group, 63d Bombardment Squadron, 489th Bombardment Squadron, 30th Bombardment Squadron, 486th Bombardment Squadron, 393d Bomb Squadron, 341st Bombardment Squadron, 342d Bombardment Squadron, 343d Bomb Squadron, 524th Bombardment Squadron, 492d Bombardment Squadron, 644th Bomb Squadron, 668th Bombardment Squadron, 744th Bombardment Squadron, 720th Bombardment Squadron, 488th Bombardment Squadron, 487th Bombardment Squadron, 736th Bombardment Squadron, 764th Bombardment Squadron, 525th Bombardment Squadron, 526th Bombardment Squadron, 506th Bombardment Squadron, 491st Bombardment Squadron, 498th Bombardment Squadron, 824th Bombardment Squadron, 641st Bombardment Squadron, 640th Bombardment Squadron, 643d Bombardment Squadron, 546th Bombardment Squadron, 545th Bombardment Squadron, 547th Bombardment Squadron, 544th Bombardment Squadron, 642d Bombardment Squadron, 339th Bombardment Squadron, 46th Bomb Squadron, 54th Bombardment Squadron. Excerpt: This is a list of United States Air Force Bomb Squadrons. It covers all squadrons that were constituted or redesignated as bomber 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 are assigned to nearly every Major Command in the United States Air Force. All the active Bomb Squadrons are in Bold. The 509th Composite Group (509th CG) was a United States Army Air Forces unit created during World War II, and tasked with operational deployment of nuclear weapons. It conducted the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, in August 1945. In the postwar era, the 509th Composite Group was one of the original ten USAAF bombardment groups assigned to Strategic Air Command on 21 March 1946, equipped with specially-configured B-29 Superfortress equipped to deliver Atomic Bombs. It was redesignated the 509th Bombardment Group, Very Heavy, on 10 July 1946. 393rd Bomb Squadron (Very Heavy) ¹The 393rd Bomb Squadron was part of the 504th Bomb Group (VH) from 12 March 1944, to 14 September 1944.320th Troop Carrier Squadron ¹The 320th Troop Carrier Squadron was activated on 17 December 1944, and ²disbanded 19 August 1946. See the 509th Operations Group for additional group history and lineage. The 509th Composite Group was constituted on 9 December 1944, and activated on 17 December 1944, at Wendover Army Air Field, Utah, commanded by Colonel Paul W. Tibbets. Colonel Tibbets had been assigned to organize and command a combat group to develop the means of delivering an atomic weapon by airplane against targets in Germany and Japan. Because the flying squadrons of the group consisted of both bomber and transport aircraft, the group was designated as a "composite" rather than a "bombardment" unit. Working with the Manhattan Engineering District at Site Y in Los Alamos, New Mexico, ...