393d Bomb Squadron

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unit_name= 393d Bomb Squadron


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dates= 11 March 1944 - 30 September 1990
27 August 1993 - Present
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type= Strategic Bombing
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8th Air Force
509th Bomb Wing
509th Operations Group
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The 393d Bomb Squadron (393 BS) is part of the 509th Bomb Wing at Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri. It operates B-2 Spirit aircraft providing strategic bombing capability.

Mission

History

The 393d flew combat missions in Western Pacific from, 1 July 1945 – 14 August 1945. It was the only squadron trained for atomic warfare in World War II and consequently dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, on 6 August 1945, and the second atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan, on 9 August 1945.

It participated in atomic bomb tests on Bikini Atoll in, July 1946, while deployed on Kwajalein. It rotated aircraft and crews to Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, in support of Southeast Asia Operations between 1966 and 1969. Not operational, Nov 1969–Jun 1971.

Operations

*World War II
*Vietnam War
*Operation Crossroads

Lineage

*393d Bombardment Squadron, Heavy (1944 - 1948)
*393d Bombardment Squadron, Medium (1948 - 1966)
*393d Bomberdment Squadron, Heavy (1966 - 1969)
*393d Bombardment Squadron, Medium (1969 - 1993)
*393d Bomb Squadron (1993 - Present)

Assignments

*504th Bombardment Group (1944)
*2d Air Force (1919 – 1946)
*509th Bomb Wing (1944 - 1990, 1993 - Present)

Bases stationed

*Dalhart Army Air Field, Texas (1944)
*Fairmont Army Air Field, Nebraska (1944)
*Wendover Field, Utah (1944 - 1945)
*North Field, Tinian (1945)
*Walker Air Force Base, New Mexico (1945 - 1958)
**Deployed: Kwajalein (1 May - July 1946)
**Deployed: RAF Mildenhall, England (4 June - 2 September 1952)
**Deployed: Anderson Air Force Base, Guam (18 June - c. 18 September 1953)
**Deployed: Anderson Air Force Base, Guam (10 July - 8 October 1954)
**Deployed: RAF Upper Heyford, England (10 January - 30 April 1956)
*Pease Air Force Base, New Hampshire (1958 - 1990)
*Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri (1993 - Present)

Aircraft Operated

*B-17 Flying Fortress (1944)
*B-29 Superfortress (1944 - 1952)
*B-50 Superfortress (1949 - 1955)
*B-47 Stratojet (1955 - 1965)
*B-52 Stratofortress (1966 - 1969)
*FB-111 (1970 - 1990)
*B-2 Spirit (1993 - Present)

ee also

*Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

References

* [http://afhra.maxwell.af.mil/rso/squadrons_flights_pages/0393bs.html USAF 393d Bomb Squadron History]