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This heritage pamphlet from Malmstrom AFB traces the history of the 341st Missile Wing. The unit began as a B-25 bomb group in the China-Burma-India Theater in 1942, then flew B-47s at Abilene AFB before being activated at Malmstrom in July 1961. The pamphlet covers the Minuteman I, II and III deployments, the Cuban Missile Crisis alert, arms-reduction work under START, trophies, wing commanders and a missile field chronology. It also has museum display notes on missiles and the UH-1 helicopter.
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341st Missile Wing History On 27 December 1946, the Group was redesignated as the 341st Bombardment Group, Light, and activated in the U.S. Air Force Reserve at Westover Field (later AFB), Massachusetts. The Group conducted routine training activity there with AT-6 (Fighter) AT-11 (Bomber) advanced training aircraft until it was inactivated on 27 June 1949. Bomb Wing The 341st achieved wing status when it was activated as the 341Bombardment Wing, Medium in September 1955 at Abilene AFB (later Dyess AFB), Texas as a Strategic Air Command B- 47E Stratojet unit. The wing’s aircraft were designed to carry nuclear weapons and to penetrate Soviet air defenses with their high operational ceiling and near-supersonic speed. The 341st flew the B-47 in training and alert missions and participated in various SAC exercises and deployments to bases in Guam, Morocco and England. During this time, the wing also controlled a KC-97 Stratotanker squadron to provide air refueling for B-47 operations. In 1958 after the loss of some aircraft in clandestine Cold War operations; it was believed that Soviet air defenses had caught up to the ability of the B-47 to successfully penetrate Soviet airspace. The Stratojet began to be phased out of the inventory and the 341 Bomb Wing began sending its aircraft to storage at Davis-Monthan AFB, Arizona in 1961. The wing was inactivated on 25 June of that year.
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