4134th / 320th Bombardment Wing (H)

Strategic Air Command

In commemoration of those

who preserved our priceless

heritage and peace with honor

May 1958 - July 1989

Dedicated 13 August 1993

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416th Bombardment Group (L)

World War II - European Theater

Bombardment Squadrons

668th - 669th - HQ - 670th - 671st

- Support Units -

4th Ser. Grp - 79th Sta. Comp.

199th Med. Det. - Red Cross

21st Weather - 1297th Mil. Police

Dedicated in Memory of the Gallant 416th ...

450th Bombardment Group (H)

In honor of those who served with the

450th Bombardment Group (H)

1943 - Manduria, Italy - 1945 W.W.II

Squadrons

720th - 721st - 722nd - 723rd

"The Cottontails"

Distinguished Unit Citations

Regensburg Feb 25th 1944

Ploesti Apr 5th 1944

1505 men of the 450th Group were

killed or missing ...

30th Bombardment Group

World War II

Alaska, 1942 - 1943

Central Pacific, 1943 - 1946

In memory of those who served

1941 - 1946

Squadrons

21st, 27th, 38th, 392nd, 819th

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463rd Bombardment Group (H)

(The Swoose Group) World War II

772nd Sq • 773rd Sq • 774 Sq • 775 Sq

Group HQs and Support Units

"Memorializing our comrades who were killed

in action and honoring all who served"

Dedicated Oct. 1988

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781st Bombardment Squadron (H)

In eternal memory and honor

to our comrades of the

781st Bombardment Squadron (H)

U.S. Army Air Force, who, flying

B-24 Liberators, gave their

lives for peace and righteousness

in the air battles over southern

Europe during World War II, 1944-45

Pantanella AAB, Italy

465th Bombardment Group (H)

15th Air ...

509th Composite Group – First Atomic Bombardment

“The Atomic bomb is too dangerous to be loose in a lawless world ... we pray that (God) may guide us to use it in His ways and for His purposes.”

—President Harry S. Truman, August, 1945.

In Memory. This monument is ...

458th Bombardment Group (H)

2nd Air Div Assn • 8th Air Force

752nd Bomb Sqdn • 753rd Bomb Sqdn

754th Bomb Sqdn • 755th Bomb Sqdn

Dedicated to the memory of our 275 comrades who died in World War II while participating in 240 combat missions flown ...

Bombardment Groups

In 1942 the 310th, 321st, 340th

groups trained here at Columbia

Army Air Base for World War II.

All participated in 9 campaigns

and each received 2 Distinguished

Unit Citations.

Marker is on Airport Blvd.

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319th Bombardment Group

Activated in 1942 and stationed here

at Columbia Army Air Base February

through April of 1945, the 319th

participated in many World War II campaigns

in Europe and the Pacific. The group

has recieved numerous honors, including

two Presidential Unit Citations and

France's Croix de Guerre ...