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    The 489th Bomb Group (489 BG) is a unit of the United States Air Force within the Air Force Reserve Command. It is assigned to the 307th Bomb Wing, and...
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    489th Bomb Group 345th Bomb Squadron 489th Maintenance Squadron 489th Aerospace Medical Flight 307th Maintenance Group 307th Mission Support Group For additional...
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    The 345th Bomb Squadron is a United States Air Force Reserve squadron, assigned to the 489th Bomb Group. It is stationed at Dyess Air Force Base, Texas...
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    The 489th Bomb Group returned to Bradley AAF Connecticut in November 1944 to prepare for redeployment to the Pacific theater. Redesignated 489th Bombardment...
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    Stratofortress 489th Bomb Group (Dyess AFB) 345th Bomb Squadron – B-1B Lancer Missouri Air National Guard 131st Bomb Wing (Whiteman AFB) 131st Operations Group (Whiteman...
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  • Intelligence Wing Air Force Reserve Command Wing Shield Squadron Location Variants Service dates Notes 489th Bomb Group 345 BS Dyess AFB, TX B-1B 2015-present...
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    "Rosie's Reply" of the Twelfth Air Force, 57th Bomb Wing, 340th Bombardment Group in the 489th Bomb Group, a Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17, and a Boeing C-17...
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    846th Bombardment Squadron (category Strategic bombing units and formations)
    inactive United States Air Force unit. It was assigned to the 489th Bombardment Group, flying Consolidated B-24 Liberators. After training in the United...
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    was the training site of the 509th Composite Group, the B-29 unit that carried out the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. After the war, Wendover...
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    844th Bombardment Squadron (category World War II strategic bombing units)
    inactive United States Air Force unit. It was assigned to the 489th Bombardment Group, flying Consolidated B-24 Liberators. After training in the United...
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    is 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...
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    845th Bombardment Squadron (category Strategic bombing squadrons of the United States Army Air Forces)
    Force unit. It was last assigned to the 489th Bombardment Group. It was assigned to the 489th Bombardment Group, flying Consolidated B-24 Liberators. After...
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    a consequence of attempting to bomb visually in poor weather conditions. As a result, the lead aircraft of the 489th's formation on June 5 was a Pathfinder...
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    the 56th Fighter Group of the United States 8th Army Air Force were stationed there. In 1944, it became the base of the 489th Bomb Group flying B24 Liberators...
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    The 2d Operations Group (2 OG) is the flying component of the United States Air Force 2d Bomb Wing, assigned to the Air Force Global Strike Command Eighth...
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    nuclear weapons. It conducted the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, in August 1945. The group was activated on 17 December 1944 at Wendover...
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    95th Combat Bombardment Wing (category Units and formations of the U.S. Army Air Forces which bombed Germany 1942-1945)
    when two newly arrived Consolidated B-24 Liberator groups, the 489th and 491st Bombardment Groups were assigned to the wing. The 95th Wing moved its headquarters...
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    The 489th Attack Squadron is an active United States Air Force unit, stationed at Creech Air Force Base, Nevada, and operating MQ-1 and MQ-9 unmanned...
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    Netherlands, Norway, Romania, and Ukraine. The group inherited the "Bloody Hundredth" nickname from other bomb groups due to severe losses it took on several...
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  • ISBN 9781782664208. Haulman, Daniel L. (27 July 2017). "Factsheet 489 Bomb Group (AFRC)". Air Force Historical Research Agency. Retrieved 26 July 2021...
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    the group's first predecessor, the 381st Bombardment Group was an Eighth Air Force Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress unit, which flew strategic bombing missions...
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    marshalling yards at Paderborn. The group also engaged in air support and air interdiction missions. It bombed V-1 flying bomb and V-2 rocket launch sites, airfields...
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    New Guinea and the Philippines. The group was awarded a Distinguished Unit Citation for its pre-invasion bombing of Balikpapan from 23 to 30 June 1945...
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    847th Bombardment Squadron (category Strategic bombing squadrons of the United States Army Air Forces)
    the 421st Bombardment Squadron. Its last assignment was with the 489th Bombardment Group at Great Bend Army Air Field, Kansas where it was inactivated on...
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    War II, the group's predecessor unit, the 93d Bombardment Group was the first VIII Bomber Command Consolidated B-24 Liberator group to bomb targets in...
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    activated Redesignated 384th Bomb Group, 1 January 1994 Inactivated on 1 October 1994 Redesignated 384th Air Expeditionary Group and converted to provisional...
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    just north of the town of Box Elder. The host unit at Ellsworth is the 28th Bomb Wing (28 BW). Assigned to the Global Strike Command's Eighth Air Force, the...
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    to the 416th Bombardment Group to train their pilots on converting over to the A-26. On 2 October 1944, the 386th Bomb Group moved to Beaumont-sur-Oise...
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    July 1944 when the group braved severe fighter attacks and antiaircraft fire to bomb oil facilities at Budapest. In April 1945 bombed gun positions, bridges...
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    more very heavy bombardment groups, the 498th, the 19th, and 333d, and in addition, it retrained the ground echelon of the 489th back from Europe for redeployment...
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