390th Strategic Missile Wing

390th Strategic Missile Wing
Titan II missile in its silo
Active	1943–1945; 1962–1984
Country	United States
Branch	United States Air Force
Role	Long range missile
Part of	Strategic Air Command
Motto(s)	Sur le Nez French On the Nose (WW II) Non Nobis Solum Latin Not for Ourselves Alone (SAC)
Mascot(s)	Honey bear (WW II)
Engagements	European Theater of Operations
Decorations	Distinguished Unit Citation Air Force Outstanding Unit Award
Insignia
(Approved 2 March 1964)
Unofficial 390th Bombardment Group emblem
World War II Tail Marking	Square J

The 390th Strategic Missile Wing was a United States Air Force Strategic Air Command organization, stationed at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona. Its mission was to maintain and control intercontinental ballistic missiles.

The wing was first organized as the 390th Bombardment Group in January 1943 and equipped with the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress. After training in the United States, the group moved to England, beginning combat operations in August. The group flew 300 combat missions and was twice awarded the Distinguished Unit Citation for its action in combat. Its last mission was on 20 April 1945. After V-E Day, the group returned to the United States, where it was inactivated in August 1945.

The 390th Strategic Missile Wing was organized in January 1962 as the United States Air Force's first LGM-25C Titan II wing, becoming operational in March 1963. It earned honors as the best Titan II wing in Strategic Air Command (SAC) on five occasions, and in 1979 earned the Blanchard Trophy as SAC's best missile wing of any kind. It was inactivated in 1984 with the retirement of the Titan II from the United States intercontinental ballistic missile inventory. Just before the wing was inactivated, the Air Force consolidated the group and the wing into a single unit.

The unit was first activated on 26 January 1943 at Geiger Field Washington as the 390th Bombardment Group, with the 568th569th570th and 571st Bombardment Squadrons assigned as its original squadrons. The group did not begin to fill its ranks until early the following month.