The 494th Bombardment Wing is an inactive United States Air Force unit. It was last assigned to the Strategic Air Command 19th Air Division, stationed at Sheppard Air Force Base, Texas. It was inactivated on 2 April 1966.
Originally activated in 1943 as the 494th Bombardment Group as a World War II United States Army Air Forces combat organization. It was the last B-24 Liberator group formed by the United States Army Air Forces.
The highly-decorated unit served primarily in Western Pacific, taking part in numerous campaigns. It earned the Philippine Presidential Unit Citation for its actions during the liberation of the Philippines, hitting gun-emplacements, personnel areas, and storage depots on Corregidor and Caballo at the entrance to Manila Bay; bombing radio installations and power plants at Japanese bases in the Philippines; and attacking enemy-held airfields.
Famous quotes containing the word wing:
“No Raven’s wing can stretch the flight so far
As the torn bandrols of Napoleon’s war.
Choose then your climate, fix your best abode,
He’ll make you deserts and he’ll bring you blood.
How could you fear a dearth? have not mankind,
Tho slain by millions, millions left behind?
Has not conscription still the power to weild
Her annual faulchion o’er the human field?
A faithful harvester!”
—Joel Barlow (1754–1812)