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: 307th Bombardment Group ( B-29 ), ( August 1950-November 1954 )
Image: 307bw. jpg | 307th Bombardment Wing, Medium
: 307th Bombardment Wing ( MacDill ) ( B-29 )
: Established as 307th Bombardment Wing ( Very Heavy ), 28 July 1947 *
The 307th and 28th Bombardment Groups were placed on alert and ordered to be ready to deploy within three and twelve hours respectively.
The 307th Bombardment Group left MacDill AFB, Florida for RAF Marham and RAF Waddington in the UK.
Later in July, the Fifteenth Air Force 98th and 307th Bombardment Groups were sent to Japan to join the FEAF.
* 307th Bombardment: 1944.
On 4 August 1946, SAC activated the 307th Bombardment Group ( Very Heavy ) as the host unit at MacDill, being initially equipped with Boeing B-29 Superfortresses.
The unit was redesignated as the 307th Bombardment Wing, Medium on 12 July 1948.
Under the wing designation, the 306th Bombardment Group ( eff: 12 August 1948 ) and 307th Bombardment Group ( eff: 12 July 1948 ) were attached to the wing.
In 1952, the 307th Bombardment Wing was bestowed the lineage, honors and history of the USAAF World War II 307th Bombardment Group.
Upon activation, operational units of the wing were the 367th, 368th and 369th Bombardment Squadrons under the 306th Bombardment Group which was transferred from the 307th BMW.
* 307th Bombardment Wing, 15 August 1947 – 16 May 1951 ( B-29, B-50 )
307th Bombardment Group Boeing B-29A-75-BN Superfortress 44-62328 SAC 8th Air Force, at RAF Lakenheath, England during the Berlin Airlift, 1948
* 307th Bombardment Wing ( 11 July 1956-5 October 1956 ) ( B-47, KC-97 )( TDY From Lincoln AFB, Nebraska )
The B-47 involved in the accident, which killed four crewmen, was part of the 307th Bombardment Wing.
The 28th and 307th Bombardment Groups were deployed to the newly activated Third Air Force station at RAF Marham.
* 307th Bombardment Group ( Medium ) ( September 1950 – February 1951 ) ( B-29 ) Deployed from MacDill AFB Florida to engage in combat operations during the Korean War.
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During World War II, Altman flew more than 50 bombing missions as a crewman on a B-24 Liberator with the 307th Bomb Group in Borneo and the Dutch East Indies.
Its training unit was the 307th Single Engine Flying Training Group which operated AT-6 Texans, with the base operating unit being the 403d Army Air Force Base Unit.
On 1 September 1950, the 307th Bomb Group with its three squadrons of B-29s was deployed to Far East Air Force ( FEAF ) Bomber Command, Provisional at Kadena Air Base, Okinawa, engaging in combat operations during the Korean War.
The 307th Bomb Group was permanently reassigned to Kadena Air Base upon the inactivation of the wing at MacDill.
He flew several dozen missions with the 370th Bomb Squadron of the 307th Bomb Group in the Pacific, and was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for his valor and bravery.
He commanded a company of the 307th Engineer Battalion, 82d Airborne Division, at Fort Bragg, North Carolina ; served on the staff of the 2d Airborne Battle Group, 503d Infantry, in Okinawa ; and commanded the 326th Engineer Battalion, 101st Airborne Division, in Vietnam in 1968-69.
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* 1941 – World War II: The 19th Bombardment Group attacks Japanese ships off the coast of Vigan, Luzon.
There was also the 58th Bombardment Wing, Very Heavy, which supervised the Silverplate atomic-capable 509th Composite Group.
In January 1943, Galveston Army Air Field was officially activated with the 46th Bombardment Group serving an anti-submarine role in the Gulf of Mexico.
During World War II, Matthau served in the U. S. Army Air Forces with the Eighth Air Force in England as a B-24 Liberator radioman-gunner, in the same 453rd Bombardment Group as James Stewart.
After completing multi-engine flight training in November 1946, Allen was assigned to Strategic Air Command's 7th Bombardment Group at Carswell Air Force Base, Texas, where he flew B-29 Superfortress bombers, and then the new and very long-range Convair B-36 bomber.
As part of the postwar austerity, these groups were inactivated, with the personnel and equipment being consolidated into the 43d Bombardment Group in October.
* 41st Bombardment Group, 15 January – 14 May 1941
* 382d Bombardment Group, 23 January 1942 – 4 April 1943
* 39th Bombardment Group, 5 February – 1 April 1942
* 34th Bombardment Group, 13 May – 1 July 1942
* 308th Bombardment Group, 20 June – 1 October 1942
* 302d Bombardment Group, 23 June – 30 July 1942 ; 2 December 1942 – 27 January 1943
* 380th Bombardment Group, 3 October – 1 December 1942
* 385th Bombardment Group, 1 December 1942 – 3 January 1943
* 389th Bombardment Group, 24 December 1942 – 1 February 1943
* 392d Bombardment Group, 26 January – 1 March 1943
* 399th Bombardment Group, 1 March – 10 April 1943
* 444th Bombardment Group, 1 March – 31 July 1943 ; 1 May – 1 October 1946
* 446th Bombardment Group, 1 April – 6 June 1943
* 400th Bombardment Group, 11 April – 1 May 1943
* 447th Bombardment Group, 1 May – 4 July 1943
* 449th Bombardment Group, 1 May – 5 July 1943
* 451st Bombardment Group, 1 May – 3 June 1943
* 459th Bombardment Group, 22 September – 25 October 1943
* 491st Bombardment Group, 1 October – 11 November 1943
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