The 345th Bombardment Group is an inactive United States Air Force unit. Its last assignment was with the Tactical Air Command at Langley Air Force Base, Virginia, where it was inactivated on 25 June 1959.
345th Bombardment Wing B-57B Canberras in 1957
345th Bombardment Group B-25 Mitchell over Wakde Island
The Fifth Air Force is a numbered air force of the United States Air Force Pacific Air Forces (PACAF). It is headquartered at Yokota Air Base, Japan. It is the U.S. Air Force's oldest continuously serving Numbered Air Force. The organization has provided 80 years of continuous air power to the Pacific since its establishment in September 1941.
Fifth U.S. Air Force Zones of Responsibility, 1945–1947
North American F-86F-25-NH Sabres of the 4th FIW over Korea. Serial 52-5346 identifiable
Incoming Fifth Air Force commander, Lt. Gen. Ricky Rupp receives the command guidon from Gen. Kenneth S. Wilsbach, commander of the Pacific Air Forces, on 26 August 2021.
Image: General Brereton