The 36th Operations Group is the operational component of the 36th Wing, assigned to the United States Air Force Pacific Air Forces. The group is stationed at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam.
A Lockheed Martin F-22A Block 30 Raptor (05-4107) from the 90th Fighter Squadron flies over Guam for a training mission 15 April 2007. The Raptors deployed from the 3rd Wing at Elmendorf AFB, Alaska, and when deployed to Andersen, are attached to the 36th Operations Group.
A B-52H Stratofortress (B-52H-170-BW 61-0019) deployed to Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, departs 12 February 2007 for a training mission over the Pacific Ocean. The bombers deployed from the 2nd Bomb Wing at Barksdale AFB, Louisiana, and when deployed to Andersen, are attached to the 36th Operations Group.
P-36As of the 36th Pursuit Group at Langley Field, Virginia, in 1940.
Block 28 Republic P-47Ds of the 22d Fighter Squadron at Kingsnorth Airfield, England, 1944. Serials 44-20211 and 44-19864 identifiable. Aircraft 864 was lost to ground fire on Christmas Eve of that year with LT Charles J. Loring, Jr. at the controls, and he became a POW. During the Korean War, Loring was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor.
The United States Air Force's 36th Wing is the host wing for Andersen Air Force Base, Guam. It is part of Pacific Air Forces' Eleventh Air Force. The 36th Wing provides day-to-day mission support to more than 9,000 military, civilian, dependent and retired personnel and 15 associate units on the base.
A Boeing B-52 Stratofortress deployed to Andersen AFB leads a formation of Japanese Mitsubishi F-2s, USAF F-16s and Navy EA-6B Prowlers
A Japan Air Self Defense Force F-2 fighter taxis to join nine other F-2s which arrived here 30 January for the 2009 Cope North Exercise. The F-2s are from the 6th Squadron, Tsuiki Air Base, Japan.
Republic F-84E-10-RE Thunderjet Serial 49-2299 of the 23d Fighter-Bomber Squadron, 1951, flown by the Wing Commander Col. Robert L. Scott. Note the 23d Fighter Group emblem on the nose, as Col. Scott was a "Flying Tiger" in China during World War II.
22d TFS F-105s with French Air Force Dassault Mystère B2s from Cambrai Air Base – 1964.