🔎 Whiteman Air Force Base

2024-03-04 23:40:32

Introduction

Whiteman Air Force Base is a base of the United States Air Force built in 1952; it is the largest never built in…) Air Force located in Missouri regarding a hundred kilometers to the southeast (Southeast is the direction halfway between the southern and eastern cardinal points. Southeast is…) Kansas City.

Units

Whiteman AFB houses the following units in 2009:

• 509th Bomb Wing of Air Combat Command on B-2 and T-38
• 131st Bomb Wing de l’Air National Guard sur B-2
• 442nd Fighter Wing of the Air Force Reserve Command (Air Force Reserve Command (AFRC) is one of the major commands of the United States Air Force…) on A-10A
• 1/135th Aviation (Aviation is an aerial activity defined by all the actors,…) Battalion of the United States National Guard on AH-64 Apache (The AH-64 Apache is a helicopter of all-weather attack. It is currently built by…)
• Navy Reserve’s Mobile Inshore Undersea Warfare Unit 114 whose mission is to ensure surveillance, intelligence and protection measures for maritime assets.

Historical

Minuteman III in its silo in 1980

A B-2 returning from a mission during Operation Iraqi Liberation following a thirty-hour flight (Time is a unit of measurement:) in 2003

The base was established on August 6, 1942 as Sedalia Glider Base. In August 1951, the Strategic Air Command (The Strategic Air Command, or SAC, was a major command of the US Air Force (USAF),…) decided to construct the new base of Sedalia Air Force Base, the works beginning in early 1952. The 340th Bombardment Wing, flying B-47s and KC-97s, was activated at Sedalia AFB in October 1952.

Sedalia AFB was renamed Whiteman AFB on December 3, 1955, in honor of Sedalia native Lt. George A. Whiteman, who was one of the first American pilots killed in action during World War II, while flying his Curtiss P-40 Warhawk was shot down while attempting to take off from Pear Harbor on December 7, 1941.

Le 340th BW quitte Whiteman AFB en 1960 pour Bergstrom Air Force Base.

In February 1962, the 351st Strategic Wing, a squadron equipped with Minuteman intercontinental ballistic missiles, was activated at Whiteman. The 351st SMW carried out its strategic mission until its dissolution on July 31, 1995.
The 509th Bomb Wing was activated on Whiteman AFB on September 30, 1990. Along with the 442nd Fighter Wing of the Air Force Reserve Command, it was, in 2007, the main unit of Whiteman AFB.
According to the Federation of American Scientists, in 2006 the base contained a total of 136 nuclear bombs divided into 35 B61-7 bombs, 41 B61-11 bombs and 60 B83-0/B-831 bombs. They are all intended for B-2s.

Whiteman AFB en 1996

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