VII Bomber Command

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Active 1942–1946 Role Command and Control		Country United States
Branch United States Army Air Forces Engagements World War IIAsiatic-Pacific Campaign (1944–1945)

The VII Bomber Command is an inactive United States Air Force unit. Its last assignment was with Seventh Air Force, based on Okinawa. It was inactivated on 31 March 1946.

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Constituted as VII Bomber Command on 23 January 1942

Activated on 29 January 1942.Inactivated on 31 March 1946Disbanded on 8 October 1948

Hawaiian Air Force 23 January 1942 – 31 March 1946

Redesignated: 7 Air Force on 5 February 1942Redesignated: Seventh Air Force on 18 September 1942

Hickam Field, Hawaii (Territory), 29 January 1942

Funafuti Airfield, Nanumea, Gilbert Islands, November 1943

Tarawa, Gilbert Islands

Hawkins Field, January 1944Bairiki (Mullinix) Airfield, January–March 1944

Kwajalein Airfield, Kwajalein, Marshall Islands, March 1944

East Field, Saipan, Mariana Islands, August 1944

Yontan Airfield, Okinawa, July 1945 – March 1946.

5th Bombardment Group: 29 January 1942 – 4 January 1943

11th Bombardment Group: 29 January 1942 – 5 January 1943; 8 April 1943 – 23 November 1945

30th Bombardment Group: 17 October 1943 – 17 March 1945

41st Bombardment Group: 16 October 1943 – 27 January 1945

305th Fighter Control Squadron: 01 December 1945 - 31 December 1945

307th Bombardment Group: 1 November 1942– February 1943

494th Bombardment Group: 15 June 1944 – 8 December 1945

Engaged in patrol operations from Hawaii until late in 1943. Afterward, served in combat in the Central and Western Pacific

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