At various times McConnell Air Force Base hosted the 381st Strategic Missile Wing that controlled various Titan missile silos around Wichita, the 388th Tactical Fighter Wing, 23d Tactical Fighter Wing, 91st Air Refueling Squadron, 384th Air Refueling Wing / Bombardment Wing, and the Kansas Air National Guard 184th Tactical Fighter Training Group.

In 1947, the airfield opened for operational use, with the 381st Bombardment Group being assigned to the field with one squadron of B-29 Superfortresses, although the facility remained primarily a separation center.

:: 381st Bombardment Group ( Triangle-L ), RAF Ridgewell

* 381st Bombardment Group ( Heavy ) 3 January-5 April 1943

* 381st Base HQ & Air Base Group, 27 June – 18 November 1942

* 381st Training Group

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B-17 Flying Fortresses of the 381st Training Group | 381st Bomb Group, Eighth Air Force.

* 381st Training Group Vandenberg AFB, CaliforniaProvides qualification training for intercontinental ballistic missiles ( ICBM ), space surveillance, missile warning, spacelift, and satellite command and control operators.

Assigned as a navigator in the 381st Bomb Squadron, 310th Bomb Group in North Africa.

* 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

* 389th Bombardment ( Heavy ) 24 December 1942 – 1 February 1943

* 98th Bombardment Wing, October 24, 1947 – August 15, 1953

* 2d Bombardment Group, 1 July – 24 September 1947

* 98th Bombardment Group, 1 July 1947 – 24 September 1947

I have sustained a continual Bombardment and cannonade for 24 hours and have not lost a man.

* 319th Bombardment Group, 24 – 12 November 1942, B-26 Marauder

* 467th Bombardment Group, 24 August-8 September 1945

* 19th Bombardment Wing, 24 July-28 September 1942 ( Deployed to Egypt )

McCoy, was appointed commander of the 321st Bombardment Wing on 24 May 1954, having earned the unofficial distinction of being the " dean " of the Strategic Air Command ’ s B-47 " Stratojet " aircraft commanders.

* 466th Bombardment Group < BR > 1-31 August 1943 ; 24 November 1943-February 1944 ( B-24 )

* Rain Of Iron And Ice: The Very Real Threat Of Comet And Asteroid Bombardment by John S. Lewis ; Helix Books ; ( April 24, 1997 ); ISBN 0-201-15494-3

* 12th Reconnaissance ( later, 402d Bombardment ) Squadron: attached 15 Jan 1941 – 24 Feb 1942, assigned 25 Feb 1942 – 1 Apr 1944 ; assigned 1 Apr-10 May 1944.