United States Air Force
The United States Air Force (USAF) is the Air force, air service branch of the United States Department of Defense. It is one of the six United States Armed Forces and one of the eight uniformed services of the United States. Tracing its ori ...
unit. Its last assignment was with
Seventh Air Force
The Seventh Air Force (Air Forces Korea) (7 AF) is a Numbered Air Force of the United States Pacific Air Forces (PACAF). It is headquartered at Osan Air Base, South Korea.
The command's mission is to plan and direct air component operations in ...
, based on
Okinawa
most commonly refers to:
* Okinawa Prefecture, Japan's southernmost prefecture
* Okinawa Island, the largest island of Okinawa Prefecture
* Okinawa Islands, an island group including Okinawa itself
* Okinawa (city), the second largest city in th ...
. It was inactivated on 31 March 1946.
It engaged in patrol operations from Hawaii from January 1942. On the night of 22-23 December 1942, twenty-six Consolidated B-24D Liberators of the 307th Bombardment Group staged through Midway Island for a strike on
Wake Island
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with 135 500-pound general purpose bombs and 21 incendiaries. The attack may have taken the Japanese by surprise, as neither searchlights nor antiaircraft fire were encountered until after the bombing had begun. All planes returned safely, with only slight damage to two.
After late 1943, VII Bomber Command served in combat in the Central and Western Pacific.
Lineage
* Constituted as the 7th Bomber Command on 23 January 1942Maurer indicates that the unit was constituted as the "VII" Bomber Command. However, the unit was constituted and activated with an arabic number in its name. The use of
roman numeral
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s to designate Army Air Forces combat commands did not begin until September 1942.
: Activated on 29 January 1942
* Redesignated VII Bomber Command c. 18 September 1942
: Inactivated on 31 March 1946
: Disbanded on 8 October 1948
Seventh Air Force
The Seventh Air Force (Air Forces Korea) (7 AF) is a Numbered Air Force of the United States Pacific Air Forces (PACAF). It is headquartered at Osan Air Base, South Korea.
The command's mission is to plan and direct air component operations in ...
Task Force 59
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* Task (project management), an activity that needs to be accomplish ...
, May 1944-unknown), 23 January 1942
* not confirmed, 1 January – 31 March 1946.
Stations
*
Hickam Field Hickam may refer to:
;Surname
* Homer Hickam (born 1943), American author, Vietnam veteran, and a former NASA engineer
**'' October Sky: The Homer Hickam Story'', 1999 American biographical film
* Horace Meek Hickam (1885–1934), pioneer airpower ...
Nanumea
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Marshall Islands
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The territory consists of 29 c ...
Okinawa
most commonly refers to:
* Okinawa Prefecture, Japan's southernmost prefecture
* Okinawa Island, the largest island of Okinawa Prefecture
* Okinawa Islands, an island group including Okinawa itself
* Okinawa (city), the second largest city in th ...
11th Bombardment Group
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: 29 January 1942 – 5 January 1943; 8 April 1943 – 23 November 1945
*
30th Bombardment Group 030 may refer to:
* Motorola 68030
* BR-030
* Geographical telephone calling prefixes
** Greater Accra area code, Ghana
** Utrecht, Netherlands
** Berlin, Germany
** Bar Municipality and Ulcinj Municipality of Montenegro
** Province of Brescia, It ...
: 17 October 1943 – 17 March 1945
* 41st Bombardment Group: 16 October 1943 – 27 January 1945
* 90th Bombardment Group: 12 September – November 1942
* 307th Bombardment Group: 1 November 1942– 9 February 1943
* 319th Bombardment Group: c. 2 July – 18 December 1945
* 494th Bombardment Group: c. 24 June 1944 – c. 8 December 1945 (under operational control of Combined Task Group 95.6 3 November 1944, Fifth Air Force 13 December 1944, V Bomber Command 15 December 1944, Thirteenth Air Force 28 January 1945, XIII Bomber Command 20 March 1945, Thirteenth Air Force 18 March – 14 April 1945)
; Squadrons
*
1st Reconnaissance Squadron
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The 1st Reconnaissance Squadron is the United States military's oldest flying unit, first establish ...
439th Bombardment Squadron 439th may refer to:
*439th (Tyne) Light Air Defence Regiment, Royal Artillery, a Volunteer unit of the British Army
*439th Airlift Wing
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007
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