13th Strategic Missile Division

The 13th Strategic Missile Division is an inactive unit of the United States Air Force. Its last assignment was with the Fifteenth Air Force, being stationed at Francis E. Warren Air Force Base, Wyoming. It was inactivated on 2 July 1966

Activated in the United States in October 1940, the 13th Composite Wing moved to Puerto Rico where it remained until inactivated in October 1941.

Following second activation, the 13th Bombardment Wing moved in May 1943 to England for duty with the Eighth Air Force. Groups assigned in September 1943 began strategic bombing of enemy aircraft, petroleum, and ball bearing industries as well as German airfields. Later, organizational units took part in the famous raid against the ball bearing industry at Schweinfurt in October 1943 and followed with missions against shipyards and shipbuilding installations at Wilhelmshaven and Bremen.

During the 1960s, the SAC 13th Strategic Missile Division organized, manned, trained, and equipped several strategic missile wings in Wyoming.

History

Lineage

• Established as 13th Composite Wing on 2 October 1940

Activated on 10 October 1940

Inactivated on 25 October 1941

• Redesignated 13th Bombardment Wing on 23 August 1942

Activated on 1 October 1942

Redesignated 13th Bombardment Wing (Heavy) on 1 February 1943

Redesignated 13th Combat Bombardment Wing (Heavy) on 30 August 1943

Redesignated 13th Combat Bombardment Wing, Heavy on 24 August 1944

Redesignated 13th Bombardment Wing, Heavy on 18 June 1945

Redesignated 13th Bombardment Wing, Very Heavy on 17 August 1945

Inactivated on 17 October 1945

• Redesignated 13th Air Division on 20 May 1959

Activated on 1 July 1959

Redesignated 13th Strategic Missile Division on 1 January 1963

Discontinued, and inactivated, on 2 July 1966

Assignments

Components

Stations

Aircraft and missiles

See also

• List of United States Air Force air divisions

References

 This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the Air Force Historical Research Agency.

• Maurer, Maurer (1983). Air Force Combat Units Of World War II. Maxwell AFB, Alabama: Office of Air Force History. ISBN 0-89201-092-4.
• Ravenstein, Charles A. (1984). Air Force Combat Wings Lineage and Honors Histories 1947–1977. Maxwell AFB, Alabama: Office of Air Force History. ISBN 0-912799-12-9.

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