The 75th Air Base Wing (75 ABW) is a

wing A wing is a type of fin that produces lift while moving through air or some other fluid. Accordingly, wings have streamlined cross-sections that are subject to aerodynamic forces and act as airfoils. A wing's aerodynamic efficiency is e ...

of the

United States Air Force The United States Air Force (USAF) is the air service branch of the United States Armed Forces, and is one of the eight uniformed services of the United States. Originally created on 1 August 1907, as a part of the United States Army Si ...

based out of

Hill Air Force Base Hill Air Force Base is a major U.S. Air Force (USAF) base located in northern Utah, just south of the city of Ogden, and bordering the Cities of Layton, Clearfield, Riverdale, Roy, and Sunset with its largest border immediately adjacent t ...

, Ogden Utah. It provides base operating support for the Ogden Air Logistics Complex, the 388th,

419th Fighter Wing The 419th Fighter Wing (419 FW) is an Air Reserve Component (ARC) unit of the United States Air Force. It is assigned to the Tenth Air Force, Air Force Reserve Command, and is stationed at Hill Air Force Base, Utah. The 419th FW is an associate ...

, 84th Combat Sustainment Wing, 309th Maintenance Wing,

526th ICBM Systems Wing The 526th Intercontinental Ballistic Missile Systems Group (526 ICBMG) is an inactive United States Air Force (USAF) unit. It was last located at Hill AFB, Utah, where it was inactivated in 2010. The group was first activated during World War ...

, 508th Aircraft Sustainment Wing and 25 associate units. Until the fall of 1942, the 75th Observation Group aided ground units with their training by flying

reconnaissance In military operations, reconnaissance or scouting is the exploration of an area by military forces to obtain information about enemy forces, terrain, and other activities. Examples of reconnaissance include patrolling by troops ( skirmishe ...

artillery Artillery is a class of heavy military ranged weapons that launch munitions far beyond the range and power of infantry firearms. Early artillery development focused on the ability to breach defensive walls and fortifications during si ...

adjustment,

strafing Strafing is the military practice of attacking ground targets from low-flying aircraft using aircraft-mounted automatic weapons. Less commonly, the term is used by extension to describe high-speed firing runs by any land or naval craft such ...

, and

dive bombing A dive bomber is a bomber aircraft that dives directly at its targets in order to provide greater accuracy for the bomb it drops. Diving towards the target simplifies the bomb's trajectory and allows the pilot to keep visual contact throughou ...

missions. The 75th participated in the 1942

Louisiana Maneuvers The Louisiana Maneuvers were a series of major U.S. Army exercises held in 1941 in northern and west-central Louisiana, an area bounded by the Sabine River to the west, the Calcasieu River to the east, and by the city of Shreveport to the nort ...

. It functioned primarily as a replacement training unit from 1943–1944, and also conducted a Ground Liaison Officer course from January–April 1944. The 75th was inactivated in May 1944. The 75th was reactivated as a wing in May 1966. It performed RF-4C replacement training from February 1967 – August 1970, and tactical reconnaissance from July 1966 – July 1971. On inactivation in 1971, the 75th's resources passed to the 67th Tactical Reconnaissance Wing. The 75th was reactivated in 1994 to provide services and support for the Ogden Air Logistics Center and its tenant organizations at Hill Air Force Base.

Lineage

75th Tactical Reconnaissance Group * Constituted as the 75 Observation Group on 5 February 1942 : Activated on 2 March 1942 : Redesignated as 75 Reconnaissance Group on 2 April 1943 : Redesignated as 75 Tactical Reconnaissance Group on 11 August 1943 : Disbanded on 1 May 1944 * Reconstituted on 17 May 1966 : Consolidated with the 75 Tactical Reconnaissance Wing as the 75 Tactical Reconnaissance Wing on 31 Jan 1984 75 Tactical Reconnaissance Wing : Constitured as the 75 Tactical Reconnaissance Wing and activated on 17 May 1966 (not organized) : Organized on 1 July 1966 : Inactivated on 15 July 1971 : Consolidated with the 75 Tactical Reconnaissance Group on 31 January 1984 * Redesignated 75 Air Base Wing on 16 September 1994 : Activated on 1 October 1994

Assignments

* Air Force Combat Command, 2 March 1942 * II Air Support Command, 12 March 1942 * III Ground Air Support (later, III Air Support; III Reconnaissance) Command, c. 24 May 1942 * I Tactical Air Division, 18 April 1944 – 1 May 1944 *

Tactical Air Command Tactical Air Command (TAC) is an inactive United States Air Force organization. It was a Major Command of the United States Air Force, established on 21 March 1946 and headquartered at Langley Air Force Base, Virginia. It was inactivated on 1 Ju ...

, 17 May 1966 (not organized) *

835th Air Division The 835th Air Division is an inactive United States Air Force (USAF) organization. Its last assignment was to Twelfth Air Force of Tactical Air Command (TAC) at McConnell Air Force Base, Kansas, where it was inactivated on 30 June 1971. The ...

, 1 July 1966 *

Twelfth Air Force The Twelfth Air Force (12 AF; Air Forces Southern, (AFSOUTH)) is a Numbered Air Force of the United States Air Force Air Combat Command (ACC). It is headquartered at Davis–Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona. The command is the air component to ...

, 24 December 1969 – 15 July 1971 *

Ogden Air Logistics Center The Ogden Air Logistics Complex (OO-ALC) performs programmed depot maintenance on a number of US Air Force weapon systems. Specifically it supports A-10 Thunderbolt II, B-2 Spirit, F-16 Fighting Falcon, and LGM-30G Minuteman III systems. Add ...

(later Ogden Air Logistics Complex), 1 October 1994 (attached to Air Force Sustainment Center after 12 Jul 2012) * Air Force Sustainment Center, 1 October 2012 – Present

Components

* 4th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron: 18 November 1966 – 15 July 1971 * 9th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron: 1 September 1969 – 15 July 1971 * 14th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron: 1 April 1967 – 6 November 1967 (detached after 25 October 1967) * 21st Observation (later, 21 Reconnaissance; 21 Tactical Reconnaissance) Squadron: 12 March 1942 – 1 May 1944 * 30th Observation (later, 30 Reconnaissance; 30 Tactical Reconnaissance) Squadron: 12 March 1942 – 1 May 1944 * 91st Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron: 1 July 1967 – 15 July 1971 * 124th Observation (later, 124 Reconnaissance; 124 Tactical Reconnaissance) Squadron: 12 March 1942 – 1 May 1944 (detached 3 July 1942 – 4 January 1943) * 127th Observation (later, 127 Liaison) Squadron: 12 March 1942 – 11 August 1943.

Current subordinate organizations

75th Operations Support Squadron (75 OSS) 75th Civil Engineering Group (75 CEG) *75th Civil Engineering Squadron (75 CES) *775th Civil Engineering Squadron (775 CES) 75th Comptroller Squadron (75 CPTS) 75th Mission Support Group (75 MSG) *75th Contracting Squadron (75 CONS) *75th Communications and Information Directorate (75 SC) *75th Logistics Readiness Squadron (75 LRS) *75th Force Support Squadron (75 FSS) *75th Security Forces Squadron (75 SFS) 75th Medical Group (75 MDG) *75th Operational Medicine Readiness Squadron (75 OMRS) *75th Medical Operations Squadron (75 MDOS) *75th Dental Squadron (75 DS) *75th Medical Support Squadron (75 MDSS)

Stations

Ellington Field Ellington Field Joint Reserve Base is a joint installation shared by various active component and reserve component military units, as well as aircraft flight operations of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) under the aegis ...

, Texas, 2 March 1942 *

Birmingham Army Airfield Birmingham ( ) is a city and metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of West Midlands in England. It is the second-largest city in the United Kingdom with a population of 1.145 million in the city proper, 2.92 million in the Wes ...

, Alabama, 9 March 1942 * William Northern Field, Tennessee, 12 November 1942 *

Key Field Meridian Regional Airport is a joint civil-military public use airport located at Key Field, a joint-use public/military airfield. It is located southwest of Meridian, a city in Lauderdale County, Mississippi, United States. The Meridian Airp ...

, Mississippi, 17 August 1943 – 1 May 1944 *

Bergstrom Air Force Base Bergstrom Air Force Base (1942–1993) was located seven miles southeast of Austin, Texas. In its later years it was a major base for the U.S. Air Force's RF-4C reconnaissance fighter fleet. History Bergstrom was originally activated on ...

, Texas, 1 July 1966 – 15 July 1971 *

, Utah, 1 October 1994 – present

Aircraft

A-20 Havoc The Douglas A-20 Havoc (company designation DB-7) is an American medium bomber, attack aircraft, night intruder, night fighter, and reconnaissance aircraft of World War II. Designed to meet an Army Air Corps requirement for a bomber, it was o ...

(1942–1943) *

B-25 Mitchell The North American B-25 Mitchell is an American medium bomber that was introduced in 1941 and named in honor of Major General William "Billy" Mitchell, a pioneer of U.S. military aviation. Used by many Allied air forces, the B-25 served in ...

(1942–1943) * L-1 Vigilant (1942–1943) *L-4 (1942–1943) * O-38 (1942–1943) * O-46 (1942–1943) * O-47 (1942–1943) *

O-52 Owl The Curtiss O-52 Owl was an observation aircraft used by the United States Army Air Corps before and during World War II. Design and development Developed in 1939, the Curtiss O-52 was the last "heavy" observation aircraft developed for the US ...

(1942–1943) * P-39 Airacobra (1943–1944) *

P-40 Warhawk The Curtiss P-40 Warhawk is an American single-engined, single-seat, all-metal fighter and ground-attack aircraft that first flew in 1938. The P-40 design was a modification of the previous Curtiss P-36 Hawk which reduced development time and ...

(1943–1944) *

P-51 Mustang The North American Aviation P-51 Mustang is an American long-range, single-seat fighter and fighter-bomber used during World War II and the Korean War, among other conflicts. The Mustang was designed in April 1940 by a team headed by James ...

(1943–1944) *

RF-4 The McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II is an American tandem two-seat, twin-engine, all-weather, long-range supersonic jet interceptor and fighter-bomber originally developed by McDonnell Aircraft for the United States Navy.Swanborough and Bowe ...

(1966–1971)

Operations

* World War II

References

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External links

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