Bomber Command is an organisational military unit, generally subordinate to the air force of a country. The best known were in Britain and the United States...
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The II Bomber Command is a disbanded United States Air Force unit. It was established in September 1941, shortly before the attack on Pearl Harbor to...
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RAF Bomber Command controlled the Royal Air Force's bomber forces from 1936 to 1968. Along with the United States Army Air Forces, it played the central...
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The XXI Bomber Command was a unit of the Twentieth Air Force in the Mariana Islands for strategic bombing during World War II. The command was established...
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The XX Bomber Command was a United States Army Air Forces bomber formation. Its last assignment was with Twentieth Air Force, based on Okinawa. It was...
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The Royal Air Force Bomber Command Memorial is a memorial in Green Park, London, commemorating the crews of RAF Bomber Command who embarked on missions...
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International Bomber Command Centre (IBCC) is a memorial and interpretation centre overlooking the city of Lincoln, England, and telling the story of RAF Bomber Command's...
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The I Bomber Command (later XX Bomber Command) was an intermediate command of the Army Air Forces during World War II. It trained bombardment units and...
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attack on Pearl Harbor to command bomber units assigned to 4th Air Force. Following the entry of the United States into World War II, it flew patrols off the...
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commands. I Bomber Command I Fighter Command I Troop Carrier Command II Bomber Command III Air Support Command III Bomber Command III Fighter Command...
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The V Bomber Command is an inactive United States Army Air Forces unit. It was last assigned to Fifth Air Force, based at Irumagawa AB, Japan. It was inactivated...
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attack on Pearl Harbor to command bomber units assigned to 3rd Air Force. Following the entry of the United States into World War II, it flew patrols off the...
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Allies and particularly for RAF Bomber Command head Arthur Harris's concept of a Strategic Bombing Offensive. Bomber Command's poor performance in bombing...
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39th Air Base Wing (section Strategic Air Command)
antisubmarine patrols along the Northwest Pacific Coastline. Reassigned to II Bomber Command at Davis–Monthan Field, Arizona in February 1942 where the group became...
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Harris reached the number of bombers by including not only bombers that were currently operational as part of RAF Bomber Command, but also aircrews from Operational...
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European Theater during World War II included the VIII Bomber Command, which conducted the first European "heavy bomber" attack by the USAAF on 17 August...
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B-17 Flying Fortress units of the United States Army Air Forces (category Lists of military units and formations of World War II)
variants and other historical information. Heavy bomber training organizations primarily under II Bomber Command in the United States and non-combat units are...
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Bombardment Wing, 15 Jul 1942 Probably II Bomber Command, 21 February 1943 – 1 April 1944 Probably II Bomber Command, 7 July 1944 316th Bombardment Wing...
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List of Boeing B-29 Superfortress operators (category Lists of military units and formations of World War II)
units assigned to the XX Bomber Command in the China-Burma-India Theater (April 1944 – February 1945), and to XXI Bomber Command in the Pacific Theater...
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modern strategic bomber role appeared after strategic bombing was widely employed, and atomic bombs were first used during World War II. Nuclear strike...
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II Bomber Command, 3 November 1942 – 1 April 1944 (attached to 17th Bombardment Operational Training Wing 12 November 1942 – c. 26 October 1943) II Bomber...
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Il-28 "Beagle". Subsequent to World War II, only the U.S. Strategic Air Command ever used the term "medium bomber" in the 1950s to distinguish its Boeing...
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The XXII Bomber Command was a United States Army Air Forces unit. It was assigned to Second Air Force at Peterson Field, Colorado. It was inactivated on...
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The aircrews of RAF Bomber Command during World War II operated a fleet of bomber aircraft carried strategic bombing operations from September 1939 to...
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Airfields of the United States Army in Nebraska 1939-1945 (redirect from Nebraska World War II Army Airfields)
were training centers for pilots and aircrews of fighters and bombers during World War II. Nebraska was a favored location because it has excellent, year-round...
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Avro Lancaster (redirect from Lancaster Bomber)
the versions, Bristol Hercules engines. It first saw service with RAF Bomber Command in 1942 and as the strategic bombing offensive over Europe gathered...
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mission of training heavy bomber units, and had little need for a fighter organization. In fact, what was now the 2nd Fighter Command had been without any...
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The bomber stream was a saturation attack tactic developed by the Royal Air Force (RAF) Bomber Command to overwhelm the nighttime German aerial defences...
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media related to Bombing of Duisburg in World War II. Bomber Command Campaign Diary, Bomber Command 60th Anniversary, Royal Air Force, 6 April 2005, Wikidata Q131324214...
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1940 3d Bombardment Wing, c. October 1940 II Bomber Command, 25 June 1942 – 1 April 1944 II Bomber Command, 1 April 1944 (attached to 17th Bombardment...
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