450th Bombardment Wing
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The 450th Bombardment Wing is an inactive United States Air Force unit. It was last assigned to the Strategic Air Command 810th Strategic Aerospace Division, stationed at Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota. It was inactivated on 25 July 1968. Originally activated in 1943 as the 450th Bombardment Group, the unit saw combat during World War II as a B-24 Liberator heavy bomber group assigned to Fifteenth Air Force in Italy. The highly decorated unit received two Distinguished Unit Citations in support of the invasion of Southern France, the advance of Russian troops in the Balkans, and the Allied effort in Italy. It was inactivated in October 1945. Reactivated as a tactical fighter wing briefly in the 1950s, it was redesignated as the Strategic Air Command 450th Bombardment Wing in 1962, flying B-52 Stratofortresses. It supported SAC combat operations in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War. It was inactivated and replaced by the 5th Bombardment Wing, Heavy, in July 1968. From Wikipedia under the
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