The 393rd Bomb Squadron is part of the 509th Bomb Wing at Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri. It operates Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit nuclear-capable strategic...
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509th Operations Group (redirect from 509th Bomb Group)
its 393rd Bomb Squadron. Its 13th Bomb Squadron, the training unit for the 509th, provides training in T-38 Talon trainers as well as in the 393rd's B-2...
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131st Bomb Wing. Retrieved 23 August 2022. "110 Bomb Squadron" (PDF). usafunithistory.com. 24 May 2020. Retrieved 23 August 2022. "Units". 131st Bomb Wing...
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The 23rd Bomb Squadron is a United States Air Force unit, assigned to the 5th Bomb Wing. It is stationed at Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota. The mission...
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Whiteman Air Force Base (section 340th Bomb Wing)
ha, 8.7 sq.mi.) of land and is maintained by the 509th Civil Engineer Squadron. In 1942, the U.S. Army Air Corps selected the site of the present-day...
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The 13th Bomb Squadron is a squadron of the United States Air Force. It is assigned to the 509th Operations Group, Air Force Global Strike Command, stationed...
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Spirit of Kansas, 89-0127, which had been operated by the 393rd Bomb Squadron, 509th Bomb Wing, Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri, and which had logged...
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The 9th Bomb Squadron is a squadron of the United States Air Force. It is assigned to the 7th Operations Group, Global Strike Command, stationed at Dyess...
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The 34th Bomb Squadron is part of the 28th Bomb Wing at Ellsworth Air Force Base, South Dakota. It operates Rockwell B-1 Lancer aircraft providing strategic...
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509th Bomb Wing – Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri (18 B-2s) 13th Bomb Squadron 2005–present 325th Bomb Squadron 1998–2005 393rd Bomb Squadron 1993–present...
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The 69th Bomb Squadron is an active United States Air Force unit. After being inactivated on 31 December 1993, it was reactivated on 3 September 2009...
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The 96th Bomb Squadron is a unit of the United States Air Force 2d Operations Group located at Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana. The 96th is equipped...
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The 110th Bomb Squadron (110 BS) is a unit of the Missouri Air National Guard 131st Bomb Wing located at Whiteman Air Force Base, Knob Noster, Missouri...
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". This action was accomplished on 3 September 2009, when the 69th Bomb Squadron reactivated at Minot Air Force Base. The command's 55-member preliminary...
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Paul Tibbets (category Crew dropping the atomic bombs of Hiroshima and Nagasaki)
commander of the 393rd Bomb Squadron, flying the B-2 Spirit at Whiteman AFB, Missouri. The squadron was one of the two operational squadrons that had formed...
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of the first atomic bombing mission on 6 August, with Kokura and Nagasaki as alternative targets. The 393rd Bombardment Squadron B-29 Enola Gay, named...
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509th Composite Group (category Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki)
on 20 December 2007. Retrieved 5 May 2007. "Brief History of the 393rd Bomb Squadron" (PDF). United States Air Force. Archived from the original (PDF)...
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The 11th Bomb Squadron is a unit of the United States Air Force, 2d Operations Group, 2d Bomb Wing located at Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana. The...
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The 20th Bomb Squadron is a unit of the 2d Operations Group of the United States Air Force located at Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana. The 20th is...
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Strategic bombing is the use of airpower to destroy industrial and economic infrastructure—such as factories, oil refineries, railroads, or power stations—rather...
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The 28th Bomb Squadron is a squadron of the United States Air Force. It is assigned to the 7th Operations Group, Global Strike Command, stationed at Dyess...
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instructor/evaluator pilot and assistant director of operations with the 393rd Bomb Squadron from April 2004 to June 2006. Spalding's career then took him to...
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Bockscar (category Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki)
States Army Air Forces on 19 March 1945. It was assigned to the 393rd Bombardment Squadron, 509th Composite Group to Wendover Army Air Field, Utah, in April...
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Goodwin returned to Whiteman as the director of operations for the 393rd Bomb Squadron while evaluating B-2 pilots. After eleven months, she was elevated...
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became the fourth bombardment squadron of the 17th Group as the 432d Bombardment Squadron. Planning for a retaliatory bombing raid on Japan began in December...
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Charles Sweeney (category Crew dropping the atomic bombs of Hiroshima and Nagasaki)
World War II and the pilot who flew Bockscar carrying the Fat Man atomic bomb to the Japanese city of Nagasaki on August 9, 1945. Separating from active...
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The 524th Bomb Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit. It was last assigned to the 379th Bombardment Wing at Wurtsmith Air Force Base, Michigan...
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Northrop-Grumman B-2A Spirit, 89-0127, 'WM', "Spirit of Kansas", of the 393rd Bomb Squadron, 509th Bomb Wing, Whiteman AFB, Missouri, crashed shortly after takeoff...
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home to the 7th Bomb Wing, which consists of four groups. The 9th and 28th Bomb Squadrons fly the B-1B. In addition, the 28th Bomb Squadron is the USAF schoolhouse...
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