United States. Air Force. Air Force, 20th
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F.E. Warren Air Force Base, Wyo.
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found: Point of no return, c1979:title page (the Twentieth Air Force) page 75 (activated in Washington on April 4, 1944 with General Henry H. "Hap" Arnold as commander; designated as a strategic Army Air Force)
found: Wikipeida, via WWW, May 24, 2012(Twentieth Air Force; a numbered air force of the United States Air Force Global Strike Command (AFGSC); it is headquartered at F. E. Warren Air Force Base, Wyoming; primary mission is Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) operations; the Twentieth Air Force commander is also the Commander, Task Force 214 (TF 214), which provides alert ICBMs to the United States Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM); established on April 4, 1944 at Washington D.C. as a United States Army Air Forces combat air force deployed to the Pacific Theater of World War II; operating initially from bases in India and staging though bases in China, conducted strategic bombardment of the Japanese Home Islands; it relocated to the Mariana Islands in late 1944, and continued the strategic bombardment campaign against Japan until the Japanese Capitulation in August 1945; the 20 AF 509th Composite Group conducted the Atomic Bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan in August 1945; inactivated on March 1, 1955, the command was reactivated September 1, 1991 as a component of the Strategic Air Command (SAC) and became operationally responsible for all land-based Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles)
found: 20th Air Force, U.S. Air Force, via WWW, May 24, 2012(Twentieth Air Force is a Numbered Air Force with headquarters at F. E. Warren Air Force Base, Wyo., in the Cheyenne community; Twentieth Air Force is responsible for the nation's three intercontinental ballistic missile wings; Twentieth Air Force has three ICBM wings: the 90th Missile Wing at F.E. Warren AFB, Wyo, the 341st Missile Wing at Malmstrom AFB, Mont.; and the 91st Missile at Minot AFB, N.D.; in addition, the 625th Strategic Operations Squadron at Offutt AFB, Neb., falls under Twentieth Air Force)
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2012-05-31: new
2012-06-01: revised
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