1 December 2009 – present (as Twentieth Air Force (Air Forces Strategic)) 1 September 1991 – 1 December 2009 4 April 1944 – 1 March 1955 (as Twentieth Air Force) (80 years, 1 month)[1]
Country
United States of America
Branch
United States Air Force (18 September 1947 – present) United States Army ( Army Air Forces, 4 April 1944 – 18 September 1947)
Type
Numbered Air Force
Role
Provide combat-ready nuclear ICBM forces for U.S. Strategic Command[2]
Part of
Air Force Global Strike Command U.S. Strategic Command
Headquarters
Francis E. Warren Air Force Base, Wyoming, U.S.
Engagements
World War II – American Theater World War II – Asiatic-Pacific Theater Korean War[1]
Decorations
Air Force Outstanding Unit Award
Commanders
Current commander
Maj Gen Stacy Jo Huser
Notable commanders
Curtis LeMay
Military unit
The Twentieth Air Force (Air Forces Strategic) (20th AF) is a numbered air force of the United States Air Force Global Strike Command (AFGSC). It is headquartered at Francis E. Warren Air Force Base, Wyoming.
20 AF's primary mission is Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) operations. The Twentieth Air Force commander is also the Commander, Task Force 214 (TF 214), which provides alert ICBMs to the United States Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM).
Established on 4 April 1944 at Washington D.C, 20 AF was a United States Army Air Forces combat air force deployed to the Pacific Theater of World War II. Operating initially from bases in India and staging through bases in China, 20 AF conducted strategic bombardment of the Japanese Home Islands. It relocated to the Mariana Islands in late 1944, and continued the strategic bombardment campaign against Japan until the Japanese capitulation in August 1945. The 20 AF 509th Composite Group conducted the atomic attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, and remains as the only air force organization to have used a nuclear weapon in combat.
Inactivated on 1 March 1955, the command was reactivated 1 September 1991, as a component of the Strategic Air Command (SAC) and became operationally responsible for all land-based Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles.
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United States of America
United States Air Force (18 September 1947 – present)
United States Army (
Army Air Forces, 4 April 1944 – 18 September 1947)
Air Force Global Strike Command
U.S. Strategic Command
