116th f b wing

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Keywords: Edward Trow, Walter Silcock ,Ed Mc Knight,Tom Sawyer,

Bill Dross,Larry Codori,Jim Williams

f80 shooting star

Comments: the 116 ftr bomb wing at misawa japan flew f84 aircraft not f80s

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JATO use at George AFB

Comments: Were JATO takeoffs part of the training at George Air Force Base before units deployed to the Korean theater?

Keywords: George Victorville F-80 F-84 F-86 JATO

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APO information needed

Comments: Seeking information regarding Father in laws records which were destroyed at the national records center in St Louis.

Do you have any information how to find an APO number for Misawa AFB, Japan in the early 1950's. This information is required to prove that he was there.

49th/116th/474th Fighter Bomber Wing Thank You

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reunions

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Unit backgroun

Comments: The ll6th Fighter Bomber Wing consited of three squadrons of Air National Guard units from Atlanta Georgia; Jacksonville, Florida and San Bernandino, Callifornia. The wing trained at George AFB, CA., and sailed to Japan July 9-10, l951 aboard pocket carriers,"Sidcom Bay" and "Wyndam Bay". Starting in December l951, the ll6th became the first Air Force Unit in history to utilize air-to-air refueling in combat operations, flying from Misawa, Japan to North Korea in "Operation High Tide." I served with the ll6th from November l951 until July l952 when the unit designation was returned to Air National Guard Status. Most of its original personnel had rotated back to the U.S.by then. The men and aircraft remaining were redesignated the 474th Fighter Bomber Wing and transferred to Korea in the largest Combat Cargo airlift of the war. The 474th was stationed out of Kunsan (K-8), South Korea until the spring of l953. At that time, the 474th exchanged aircraft and personnel with the 49th Fighter Bomber Wing. In early summer l953, these two wings were combined into the 58th Fighter bomber Wing (Reinforced) and the 474th and 49th Wings were placed on inactive status. The 58th FB Wing then relocated to K-2 (Taegu, South Korea).

The ll6th's primary duty was the aerial defense of Japan (Northern Honshu and Hokkaido),but its units flew combat missions from Misawa AB, Japan throughout the war. Early in the war, when the 49th Fighter Bomber Wing was operating out of Misawa with F-80 Shooting Stars, maintenance people at Misawa invented the "Misawa Tank", an extra 360 gallon wing tip tank arrangement that allowed the F-80's to fly from Japan, hover over a target for 30 minutes to l hour and then return to Japan, "recovering" at bases in southern Japan and sometimes in Korea.

I would like to hear from any veterans of the ll6th, 474th, 49th Fighter Bomber Wings or these other units: 753rd Battalion, 40th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Regiment (Army); Flight C, 3rd Air Res- cue Squadron; 56th Strategic Recon. Squadron; lst Radio Squadron; 21st Air Weather Wing and 60l6th Air Base Group.

Please reply either to e-mail or address listed above. Thanks. when

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