95th Air Base Wing

95th Air Base Wing
Robert Downey Jr. shakes hands with Col. Jerry Gandy, commander of the 95th Air Base Wing during the filming of Iron Man 2 at Edwards Air Force Base
Active	1942–1945; 1947–1949; 1952–1966; 1966–1976;, 1994–2012
Country	United States
Branch	United States Air Force
Role	Base Support
Part of	Air Force Flight Test Center
Garrison/HQ	Edwards Air Force Base
Nickname(s)	"First B-17's over Berlin – 1944" (WW II)
Motto(s)	Justice with Victory
Decorations	Distinguished Unit Citation Air Force Outstanding Unit Award
Commanders
Notable commanders	Colonel Charles B. DeBellevue General John K. Gerhart General John Dale Ryan Lt Gen Gerald W. Johnson
Insignia
95th Air Base Wing emblem (approved 11 October 1995)
World War II Tail Marking	Square B

The 95th Air Base Wing is an inactive United States Air Force unit that was last assigned to the Air Force Flight Test Center of Air Force Materiel Command at Edwards Air Force Base, California, where it was inactivated on 13 July 2012.

During World War II its predecessor, the 95th Bombardment Group, was a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress unit in England, stationed at RAF Horham. It was the only Eighth Air Force group awarded three Distinguished Unit Citations, with the highest total claims of enemy aircraft destroyed of all Eighth Air Force Bomb Groups − 425 aircraft. It was also the first Army Air Force group to bomb Berlin.

From 1947 to 1949 the 95th Bombardment Group served in the reserves. It was inactivated when Continental Air Command reorganized its reserve flying units under the wing base organization model.

During the Cold War, the Strategic Air Command (SAC) 95th Bombardment Wing performed strategic bombardment training with Convair B-36 Peacemaker and later Boeing B-52 Stratofortress bombers. It operated to support SAC's global commitments from April 1954 until SAC's phaseout of operations at Biggs Air Force Base, Texas in 1966.

The wing was activated later that year as the 95th Strategic Wing at Goose Air Base, Canada to replace the 4082d Strategic Wing. At Goose, it supported forward deployed SAC tankers. It was inactivated in 1967 as the Air Force withdrew from Goose.