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390th Memorial Museum

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390th Memorial Museum
390th Memorial Museum
390th Memorial Museum
390th Memorial Museum
390th Memorial Museum
390th Memorial Museum
390th Memorial Museum
390th Memorial Museum
390th Memorial Museum
390th Memorial Museum
390th Memorial Museum
390th Memorial Museum
390th Memorial Museum
390th Memorial Museum
390th Memorial Museum
390th Memorial Museum
390th Memorial Museum
390th Memorial Museum
390th Memorial Museum
390th Memorial Museum
Phone:
+1 520-574-0287

Hours:
Sunday10am - 4:30pm
Monday10am - 4:30pm
Tuesday10am - 4:30pm
Wednesday10am - 4:30pm
Thursday10am - 4:30pm
Friday10am - 4:30pm
Saturday10am - 4:30pm


The 390th Strategic Missile Wing was a United States Air Force Strategic Air Command organization, stationed at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona. Its mission was to maintain and control intercontinental ballistic missiles. The wing was first organized as the 390th Bombardment Group in January 1943 and equipped with the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress. After training in the United States, the group moved to England, beginning combat operations in August. The group flew 300 combat missions and was twice awarded the Distinguished Unit Citation for its action in combat. Its last mission was on 20 April 1945. After V-E Day, the group returned to the United States, where it was inactivated in August 1945. The 390th Strategic Missile Wing was organized in January 1962 as the United States Air Force's first LGM-25C Titan II wing, becoming operational in March 1963. It earned honors as the best Titan II wing in Strategic Air Command on five occasions, and in 1979 earned the Blanchard Trophy as SAC's best missile wing of any kind. It was inactivated in 1984 with the retirement of the Titan II from the United States intercontinental ballistic missile inventory. Just before the wing was inactivated, the Air Force consolidated the group and the wing into a single unit.
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