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    The 509th Bomb Wing (509 BW) is a United States Air Force unit assigned to the Air Force Global Strike Command, Eighth Air Force. It is stationed at Whiteman...
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    The 509th Operations Group (509 OG) is the flying component of the United States Air Force 509th Bomb Wing (509 BW), assigned to Whiteman Air Force Base...
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    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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    service, the wing is gained by the United States Air Force Global Strike Command. It is an associate unit of the active-duty 509th Bomb Wing, which falls...
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    The 509th Composite Group began deploying to North Field on Tinian, Northern Mariana Islands, in May 1945. In addition to the two nuclear bombing raids...
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    called the B-2 Spirit. On 30 November 1988, SAC announced that the 509th Bomb Wing would divest its FB-111 and KC-135 aircraft, relocate from its then-home...
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    under the reactivated Twentieth Air Force on 29 March 1991, and the 509th Bomb Wing took over host duties at Whiteman. As a result, SAC inactivated the...
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    Boeing B-52 Stratofortress. In June 2015, he assumed command of the 509th Bomb Wing. In July 2017, he became Deputy Commander, Air Force Global Strike...
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  • with Arabic "1st". Examples: 1st Fighter Wing, 21st Space Wing, and the Strategic Air Command's 509th Bomb Wing. All constituted wings have one, two, or...
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    the last on 15 December 1997. Today, Whiteman AFB is the home of the 509th Bomb Wing and the B-2 Spirit Stealth Bomber. One of the retired Minuteman IBs...
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    Eighth Air Force (category World War II strategic bombing units)
    307th Bomb Wing at Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana. The B-2 force consists of 20 bombers assigned to the active duty 509th Bomb Wing along with the...
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    Safety for the 509th Bomb Wing at Whiteman AFB, from June 2009 to June 2010, followed by his role as the Deputy Commander of the 509th Operations Group...
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    Command 509th Bomb Wing – Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri (18 B-2s) 13th Bomb Squadron 2005–present 325th Bomb Squadron 1998–2005 393rd Bomb Squadron...
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    Paul Tibbets (category Crew dropping the atomic bombs of Hiroshima and Nagasaki)
    he assumed command of the 509th Bomb Wing. In later life, Tibbets strongly defended the decision to use the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and became a symbolic...
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    Full House (aircraft) (category Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki)
    83) participating in the atomic bomb attack on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. Assigned to the 393d Bomb Squadron, 509th Composite Group, it was used as...
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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 had logged 5,100 flight...
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    atomic bombs: "Little Boy", an enriched uranium gun-type fission weapon, and "Fat Man", a plutonium implosion-type nuclear weapon. The 509th Composite...
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    it relinquished "host wing" responsibilities for Whiteman AFB, transferring that role to Air Combat Command's 509th Bomb Wing, operating the B-2 Spirit...
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    4th Aero Squadron. The 394th Combat Training Squadron provided the 509th Bomb Wing with qualified, mission-ready B-2 and Northrop T-38 Talon pilots to...
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  • 307th Bomb Wing 1956 321st Bomb Wing 1954–1955 340th Bomb Wing 1955 384th Bomb Wing 1957 509th Bomb Group 1949 509th Bomb Wing 1951 509th Bomb Wing 1952...
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  • Navy's naval aviation arm, centered around the carrier air wing. The core of the carrier air wing are the Naval Air Forces strike fighter squadrons (VFA)...
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    August 2009). "The Marshal's Baton. There is no bomb, there was no bomb, they were not looking for a bomb". Danish Institute for International Studies....
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    Straight Flush (category Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki)
    that participated in the atomic bomb attack on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. Assigned to the 393d Bomb Squadron, 509th Composite Group, it was used as...
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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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    Theodore Van Kirk (category Crew dropping the atomic bombs of Hiroshima and Nagasaki)
    509th Composite Group, 20th Air Force, which flew from a base in the Marianas Islands to drop on the city of Hiroshima, Japan, the first atomic bomb to...
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    Air Mobility Wing, with additional flyovers by a B-2 Spirit from the 509th Bomb Wing and F-22 Raptor aircraft from the 325th Fighter Wing. The former flyover...
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    Necessary Evil (aircraft) (category Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki)
    91), participating in the atomic bomb attack on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. Assigned to the 393d Bomb Squadron, 509th Composite Group, it was used as...
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    Pike. "22nd Bomb Wing". GlobalSecurity.org. John Pike. "93rd Air Control Wing [93rd ACW]". GlobalSecurity.org. John Pike. "509th Bomb Wing". GlobalSecurity...
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    for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics. He also commanded the 509th Bomb Wing. In July 2022, Nichols was reassigned as director of operations of...
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    Lancer. The Missouri Air National Guard's 131st Bomb Wing is an associate unit of the 509th Bomb Wing at Whiteman AFB, flying the B-2A Spirit. If federalized...
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