Jolly rogers 90th bomb group
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90th Operations Group
Military unit
The 90th Operations Group is the operational component of the 90th Missile Wing of the United States Air Force. It is stationed at Francis E. Warren Air Force Base, Wyoming, and is assigned to Twentieth Air Force of Air Force Global Strike Command. The group is responsible for maintaining and operating on alert the wing's assigned LGMG Minuteman IIIintercontinental ballistic missiles.
The Air Force Historical Research Agency traces the unit's origins to the 90th Bombardment Group of the Second World War. From the 90th Bombardment Group flew Consolidated B Liberators to bomb Japanese targets, operating from Australia and then New Guinea. It was awarded two United States Distinguished Unit Citations and the Philippine Presidential Unit Citation for its combat service in China, the Netherlands East Indies, New Guinea, the Bismarck Archipelago, Leyte, and Luzon. It was inactivated in the Philippines in early
The group was activated in July
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90th Bombardment Group
World War II enhet History
Constituted as 90th Bombardment Group (Heavy) on 28 Jan Activated on 15 Apr Prepared for combat with B's. Moved to Hawaii in Sep and assigned to Seventh AF. Completed training, moved to the Southwest Pacific in Nov , and assigned to Fifth AF. Entered combat immediately, and from Nov to Jan operated from Australia, New Guinea, and Biak, attacking enemy airfields, troop concentrations, ground installations, and shipping in New Guinea, the Bismarck Archipelago, Palau, and the southern Philippines. Received a DUC for strikes, conducted through heavy flak and fighter motstånd, on Japanese airfields at Wewak, New Guinea, in Sep Other operations included participation in the Battle of the Bismarck Sea in Mar and long-range raids on oil refineries at Balikpapan, Borneo, in Sep and Oct Moved to the Philippines in Jan Supported ground forces on Luzon, attacked industries on Formosa, and bombed railways, airfields, and harbor facilities
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"The Jolly Rogers"
The skull and crossed bombs is the motif of the 90th Bombardment Group (90th BG) "Jolly Rogers". A group that flew B Liberator in the South West Pacific Area (SWPA) from the början to the finish of the Pacific War, and participated in some of the most infamous combat of the Pacific theater, including the Battle of the Bismarck Sea, to the longest missions of the war to Baliapapan, Borneo. This book covers the war from the day the unit was activated to the end of WWII, when the Jolly Rodgers had fought their way across the Pacific.
From the group's humble beginning on January 28, at Key Field, Mississippi, where the group had no planes and only one officer. The war had just started for the United States, and it would take many months before the group was read to depart to join the 5th Air Force (5th AF) equipped with the Consolidated B Liberator.
Mixed Blessing with the B Liberator
While the group was