List of USAF Bomb Wings and Wings Assigned To Strategic Air Command - 307th Bomb Wing

307th Bomb Wing

See 307th Bombardment Wing

• Established on: August 15, 1947.
• At: MacDill AAF, FL.
• Assigned to: Strategic Air Command.
• Equipment: F-51s, B-29s.
• Reassigned to: Fifteenth Air Force on December 16, 1948.
• Changed equipment in: 1949 to B-29s.
• Reassigned to: Second Air Force on April 1, 1950
• Changed equipment in: 1950 to B-29s, B-50s.
• Changed equipment in: 1951 to B-29s.
• Reassigned to: Second Air Force, 6th Air Division on February 10, 1951. (Attached to Far East Air Forces Bomber Command (Provisional) February 10 to August 11, 1951). (Attached to Far East Air Forces Bomber Command) (Provisional), ADVON, August 12 to September 11, 1951). (Attached to Far East Air Forces Bomber Command) (Provisional) from September 12, 1951 to June 17, 1954). (Attached to the Twentieth Air Force from June 18 to July 25, 1954).
• Reassigned to Fifteenth Air Force, 818th Air Division on October 11, 1954. (Remained attached to the Twentieth Air Force through November 19, 1954). (Attached to the 7th Air Division from July 7 to October 5, 1956).
• Changed equipment in: 1955 to B-47s, KC-97s.
• Reassigned to: Second Air Force, 818th Air Division on January 1, 1959.
• Changed equipment in: 1961 to B-47s.
• Changed equipment in: 1962 to B-47s, EB-47s.
• Reassigned to: Second Air Force, 818th Strategic Aerospace Division on March 1, 1962
• Inactivated on: March 25, 1965.

Replaced the 94th Combat Bombardment Wing, VHB (Provisional), and other organizations in August 1947. From August 1947 until July 12, 1948, and from July 12 to December 15, 1948, the 307th Wing controlled in addition to its own units the 82nd Fighter Wing, from August 15, 1947 to December 15, 1948, at Grenier Field, NH. From September 1947 to July 1948, and July 1948 to August 1950, trained other SAC combat units in antisubmarine warfare. From February 1949 through August 1950, operated a B-29 transition training school for SAC units, and provided combat crew standardization training for SAC units, November 1949 – August 1950. The wing’s 307th Bombardment Group deployed to Okinawa in August 1950 for combat operations under FEAF Bomber Command, Provisional. The attached 306th Bombardment Group transferred to its parent wing on September 1, 1950, and until February 10, 1951, the 307th Wing had no tactical mission. On that date, wing resources were used to man the 6th Air Division at MacDill, and the wing deployed without personnel to Kadena, where it absorbed resources of the 307th Bombardment Group and began flying combat missions. By the end of hostilities, the wing (including its tactical group) had flown 5,810 combat sorties during 573 combat missions. The wing remained in the Far East in combat ready status, and on August 15, 1953, Kadena AB, Okinawa, became its permanent base. Returned to the United States in November 1954, disposing of B-29s at Davis-Monthan AFB, AZ. en route to a new base in NE. Gained B-47 and KC-97 aircraft in 1955, and, until January 1965 when the wing began phasing down for inactivation, conducted strategic bombardment training and Air refueling operations to meet SAC’s global commitments. Activated in Thailand in April 1970, replacing the 4258th Strategic Wing. Until inactivated in September 1975, the 307th was the only regular Air Force SAC wing in Southeast Asia. Using aircraft and crews loaned from other SAC wings, the 307th provided KC-135 aerial refueling of U.S. aircraft in Southeast Asia and conducted conventional bombardment operations as directed through the Military Assistance Command, Vietnam. Ended all combat operations on August 14, 1973. The final B-52 left the wing in June 1975, but the wing continued some KC-135 Air refueling and RC-135 reconnaissance operations until inactivated in Sept.1975.