310th Space Wing, US Air Force
310TH SPACE WING, US AIR FORCE
History: Established as 310 Bombardment Group (Medium) on 28 January 1942. Activated on 15 March 1942. Redesignated as 310 Bombardment Group, Medium on 20 August 1943. Inactivated on 12 September 1945. Redesignated as 310 Bombardment Group, Light, and activated in the Reserve, on 27 December 1946. Inactivated on 27 June 1949. Consolidated (31 January 1984) with the 310 Bombardment Wing, Medium, which was established on 15 March 1952. Activated on 28 March 1952. Redesignated as 310 Strategic Aerospace Wing on 1 March 1962. Discontinued, and inactivated, on 25 June 1965. Redesignated as 310 Training and Test Wing on 29 August 1991. Activated on 1 September 1991. Inactivated on 1 July 1993. Redesignated as 310 Space Group on 22 August 1997. Activated in the Reserve on 1 September 1997. Redesignated as 310 Space Wing on 7 March 2008. Trained in the U.S. with B‑25s for overseas duty, 1942. Air echelon moved to England, September‑November 1942 and continued training. Ground echelon sailed to North Africa in November 1942, where they were joined by the B‑25 crews and aircraft. Engaged primarily in support and interdictory operations in Tunisia, Sicily, Italy, Corsica, Sardinia, and southern France. Also flew some missions to Austria and Yugoslavia. Attacked Axis harbors and shipping in North Africa, Dec 1942‑May 1943. Bombed airdromes, landing grounds, and gun emplacements on Pantelleria, Lampedusa, and Sicily, May‑June 1943. Supported the Allied landing at Salerno in September 1943. Moved to Corsica, December 1943‑March 1944. Assisted the Allied drive toward Rome, January‑June 1944. Supported the invasion of southern France, August 1944. Between August 1943 and April 1945, the group struck German communications in Italy, including bridges, rail lines, marshalling yards, viaducts, tunnels, and road junctions. Also dropped propaganda leaflets behind enemy lines. Earned a Distinguished Unit Citation (DUC) for a mission to Italy on 27 August 1943, when, despite persistent attacks by enemy interceptors and antiaircraft artillery, the group accurately bombed marshalling yards at Benevento and also destroyed a number of enemy planes. Earned a second DUC for another mission in Italy on 10 Mar 1945 when the group, maintaining a compact formation in the face of enemy antiaircraft fire, bombed the railroad bridge at Ora, a vital link in the German supply line. Inactivated in Italy in September 1945. Activated at Bedford AAFld, MA, in December 1946 and trained in the Reserve until inactivation in June 1949. Activated in Kansas in 1952. Received B‑29 bombardment training from the 90th Bombardment Wing, April‑August 1952 and provided bombardment replacement training to the 40th Bombardment Wing, February‑May 1953. Converted to B‑47s in 1954. Deployed at Upper Heyford RAF Station, England, 10 March-8 June 1955, and at RAF Greenham Common, England, 3 October 1956‑9 January 1957. Gained a strategic missile squadron in April 1961. First Atlas missiles went on alert in September 1962. Began phasing down for inactivation in early 1965 and inactivated on 25 June 1965. Activated in September 1991 and assumed the ICBM testing and training mission from the Strategic Missile Center at Vandenberg AFB, CA. After removal of ICBMs from alert status at the end of the Cold War, continued to train Minuteman crews and to test accuracy and reliability of Minuteman and Peacekeeper missiles to inactivation in Jul 1993. Assisted in testing the Global Positioning System (GPS), April‑May 1992.
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The Emblem was approved on 7 January 1954, modified on 26 December 2000. Literature: Wikimedia Commons
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