487th Tactical Missile Wing emblem (approved May 1983)[2]
Patch with emblem used by 587th Tactical Missile Group[note 1]
Unofficial 487th Bombardment Group emblem[3][note 2]
Unofficial 487th Bombardment Group emblem[3][note 3]
Tail Code[4]
Square P
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The 487th Air Expeditionary Wing is a provisional United States Air Force unit assigned to the United States Air Forces in Europe. As a provisional unit, it may be activated or inactivated at any time. The unit's last known assignment was in 2003 at Cairo West Air Base, Egypt, during Operation Iraqi Freedom.
The first predecessor of the wing is the 487th Bombardment Group, a United States Army Air Forces unit. It was activated in September 1943. After training in the United States, it deployed to the European Theater of Operations , where it engaged in combat with Consolidated B-24 Liberators. In the summer of 1944, it was withdrawn from combat to convert to the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress, than continued in combat until the spring of 1945. It led the largest Eighth Air Force mission of the war on 24 December 1944. It flew 185 combat missions, the last being on 21 April 1945. Following V-E Day, the unit returned to Drew Field, Florida, where it was inactivated on 7 November 1945.
The wing's second predecessor is the 587th Tactical Missile Wing, which operated TM-61 Matador tactical cruise missiles in German during the Cold War from 1958 until 1962, when it was inactivated and its operational squadron was assigned directly to its parent 38th Tactical Missile Wing.
The two groups were consolidated in January 1982 as the 487th Tactical Missile Wing. The wing operated BGM-109G Ground Launched Cruise Missiles until it was inactivated in 1991 with the implementation of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty.
^Maurer, Combat Units, pp. 357–358
^"Approved insignia for: 487th Tactical Missile Wing". National Archives Catalog. 31 May 1983. Retrieved 9 April 2018.
^ abSee Maurer, Combat Units, p. 358 (no approved emblem)
^Freeman, p. 285
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