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451st Air Expeditionary Group
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Active
1943–1945; 1961–1965; 2002–c.2021
Country
United States
Branch
United States Air Force
Role
Command of Air Expeditionary forces
Size
Wing
Part of
9th Air and Space Expeditionary Task Force
Garrison/HQ
Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan
Engagements
World War II European Campaign (1943–1945) War in Afghanistan (2001-2021)
Insignia
451st Air Expeditionary Wing emblem
451st Strategic Missile Wing emblem (Approved 29 June 1962)[1]
Unofficial 451st Bombardment Group emblem[2]
Military unit
The 451st Air Expeditionary Group was a provisional United States Air Force USAFCENT unit. It was assigned to Kandahar Airfield and is also the host unit at Kandahar. It reported to the 455th Air Expeditionary Wing at Bagram Air Base.
The group provided intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, command and control, remotely piloted aircraft operations, and airborne data link capabilities.
During the Cold War, the Strategic Air Command 451st Strategic Missile Wing was the first fully operational HGM-25A Titan I ICBM wing in 1962. During World War II, the wing's predecessor unit, the 451st Bombardment Group was a Consolidated B-24 Liberator heavy bombardment organization, assigned to Fifteenth Air Force in Italy.
^Ravenstein, p. 247
^See Maurer, Combat Units, p. 326 (no approved emblem).
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