813th Strategic Aerospace Division
813th Strategic Aerospace Division
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LGM-30A Minuteman I in its silo
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| Active | 1954-1956; 1959-1966 |
| Country |
 United States
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| Branch |
 United States Air Force
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| Role | Command of Strategic strike forces |
| Part of | Strategic Air Command |
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| Notable commanders |
Lt General Keith K. Compton |
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| 813th Strategic Aerospace Division emblem (approved 19 April 1965) |  |
The 813th Strategic Aerospace Division is an inactive United States Air Force organization. Its last assignment was with Fifteenth Air Force at Malmstrom Air Force Base, Montana, where it was inactivated on 2 July 1966.
The division was activated in 1954 as the 813th Air Division at Pinecastle Air Force Base, Florida as the headquarters for the base and its two Boeing B-47 Stratojet wings. It was inactivated two years later when the 19th Bombardment Wing moved to Homestead Air Force Base, Florida, leaving only the 321st Bombardment Wing at Pinecastle.
The division was again activated in 1958 at Mountain Home Air Force Base, Idaho as an operational headquarters for Strategic Air Command (SAC) wings at Mountain Home and Malmstrom. It was also responsible for SAC units at forward deployment bases in Canada. The wing moved to Malmstrom in 1964 and was inactivated when its component wings were assigned to other divisions.
In June 1954, Strategic Air Command (SAC) discontinued its 4240th Flying Training Wing at Pinecastle Air Force Base, Florida and training on the Boeing B-47 Stratojet was concentrated with Air Training Command (ATC)'s 3520th Combat Crew Training Wing at McConnell Air Force Base, Kansas. This completed the transition of Pinecastle from ATC to SAC that had begun at the end of 1953 when SAC activated its 321st Bombardment Wing at Pinecastle as a B-47 bombardment wing.
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