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  • 90th Operations Group
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  • The group is responsible for maintaining and operating on alert the wing's assigned Minuteman III Intercontinental ballistic missiles, including training missile crew members. The unit's World War II predecessor unit, the 90th Bombardment Group, operated primarily in the Southwest Pacific Theater as an B-24 Liberator heavy bomber unit assigned to Fifth Air Force. It was awarded two United States Distinguished Unit Citations and the Philippine Presidential Unit Citation for its combat service in China; Netherlands East Indies; New Guinea; the Bismarck Archipelago; the Western Pacific; Leyte, and Luzon.
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Country
  • United States
Caption
  • Emblem of the 90th Operations Group
Dates
  • 1942
Unit Name
  • 90
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  • The group is responsible for maintaining and operating on alert the wing's assigned Minuteman III Intercontinental ballistic missiles, including training missile crew members. The unit's World War II predecessor unit, the 90th Bombardment Group, operated primarily in the Southwest Pacific Theater as an B-24 Liberator heavy bomber unit assigned to Fifth Air Force. It was awarded two United States Distinguished Unit Citations and the Philippine Presidential Unit Citation for its combat service in China; Netherlands East Indies; New Guinea; the Bismarck Archipelago; the Western Pacific; Leyte, and Luzon. During the early years of the Cold War, the unit operated as a Strategic Air Command B-29 Superfortress Operational Training Unit for aircrews being assigned to combat duties during the Korean War.