484th Bombardment Wing

484th Air Expeditionary Wing
Boeing B-52D 55-0104 of the 484th Bombardment Wing at Andersen AFB, Guam in 1966
Active	1943–1945, 1963–1967, 2003
Country	United States
Branch	United States Air Force
Type	Air Expeditionary
Role	Combat Support
Part of	Air Combat Command
Engagements	World War II European Campaign (1943–1945) Global War on Terrorism Iraq campaign (To Be Determined)
Decorations	Distinguished Unit Citation
Insignia
484th Air Expeditionary Wing Emblem (approved 19 March 1964)

The 484th Air Expeditionary Wing (484 AEW) is a provisional United States Air Force unit assigned to Air Combat Command. It may be activated or inactivated at any time. It was activated and attached to United States Air Forces Central for the invasion of Iraq in 2003 (Operation Iraqi Freedom). It was headquartered at Prince Sultan Air Base, Saudi Arabia.

The wing was originally activated in 1943 as the 484th Bombardment Group as a World War II United States Army Air Forces combat unit. The group served primarily in the Mediterranean, African, and The Middle East Theatres of World War II. During operations from Italy, it twice was awarded with Distinguished Unit Citations (DUC) for missions in Germany and Austria. When hostilities in Europe ended, the group was assigned to expedite the movement of troops and equipment from Europe back to the United States,

The 484th Bombardment Wing was organized in February 1963 at Turner AFB, Georgia. The wing temporarily inherited the lineage, honors, and history of the 484th group, although the group was not reactivated as a wing element. In 1966 all wing aircraft, crews, all wing HQ personnel and most wing support personnel were deployed to the 3d Air Division for combat operations over Vietnam. The wing was inactivated on 25 March 1967 as part of the closure of Turner AFB. In 1984, the group and wing were consolidated into a single unit.

The 484th Bombardment Group (Heavy) was constituted on 14 September 1943 as a Consolidated B-24 Liberator heavy bombardment group and activated on 20 September at Harvard Army Air Field, Nebraska. Its original squadrons were the newly activated 824th,825th, and 826th Bombardment Squadrons and the 827th Bombardment Squadron, which moved to Harvard AAF after two years of anti-submarine warfare experience on the east coast of the United States