450th Bomb Wing
•Activated on: November 15, 1962. •Organized on: February 1, 1963. •At: Minot AFB, ND. •Assigned to: Strategic Air Command. •Equipment: B-52s, KC-135s. •Reassigned to: Second Air Force, 810th Strategic Aerospace Division on February 1, 1963. •Reassigned to: Fifteenth Air Force, 810th Strategic Aerospace Division on July 2, 1966. •Changed equipment in: 1967 to B-52s, EC-135s, KC-135s. •Inactivated on: July 25, 1968.
Replaced 4136th Strategic Wing in February 1963. Trained in global bombardment and Air Refueling operations. Added post attack command and control system (PACCS)/ airborne launch control system (ALCS) missions in 1967 and began active PACCS/ALCS missions in February 1968. Supported SAC combat operations in Southeast Asia by furnishing KC-135 aircraft and crews, December 1964 – July 1968, and B-52 crews, June–July 1968. Replaced by 5th Bombardment Wing, Heavy, in July 1968.
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