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1st Bombardment Wing

1st Bombardment Wing
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92d Bombardment Group senior Pilots pose in front of Boeing B-17F 42-30455 at RAF Alconbury, England, after a successful mission to Hülser Berg Germany in late June 1943. Equipped with radar, this aircraft flew several missions as the lead aircraft of the group.
Active 1918-1919; 1919–1924; 1931–1945
Country  United States
Branch United States Army Air Forces
Role Bomber Command and Control
Part of Eighth Air Force
Garrison/HQ RAF Bassingbourn, England
Engagements

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World War I

  • Champagne-Marne Defensive Campaign
  • Aisne-Marne Offensive Campaign
  • St. Mihiel Offensive Campaign
  • Meuse-Argonne Offensive Campaign

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World War II (EAME Theater)

  • Air Offensive, Europe Campaign
  • Normandy Campaign
  • Northern France Campaign
  • Rhineland Campaign
  • Ardennes-Alsace Campaign
  • Central Europe Campaign
Decorations

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Distinguished Unit Citation

  • Germany, 11 Jan 1944
Commanders
Notable
commanders
Thomas DeW. Milling
Carl A. Spaatz
Henry H. Arnold
Laurence S. Kuter
Haywood S. Hansell
Frank A. Armstrong
Insignia
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World War I

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World War II (EAME Theater)

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Distinguished Unit Citation

The 1st Bombardment Wing is a disbanded United States Army Air Force unit. It was initially formed in France in 1918 during World War I as a command and control organization for the First Army Air Service, the largest Air Service of the American Expeditionary Forces.

Demobilized after the Armistice in France, it was re-established in the United States as the first wing formed in the reorganized United States Army Air Service, created in August 1919 to control three groups patrolling the border with Mexico after revolution broke out there.


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