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The 5th Bomb Wing is a United States Air Force unit assigned to Air Force Global Strike Command's Eighth Air Force. It is stationed at Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota. The wing is also the host unit at Minot. The 5 BW is one of only two active duty Boeing B-52H Stratofortress wings in the United States Air Force, the other being the 2nd Bomb Wing at Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana. Also, stationed at Barksdale Air Force Base, and operating the B-52H is a third unit, the 307th Bomb Wing, which is part of the Air Force Reserve Command.
A 5th Bomb Wing Boeing B-52 taxis past the Minot AFB tower
31st Strategic Reconnaissance Squadron RB-29 Superfortress 1949
A 5th BW B-52H Stratofortress and munitions on display
The 72d Test and Evaluation Squadron is part of the 53d Wing at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida. The squadron is geographically separated but is operated from Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri. It conducts testing and evaluation of the B-2 Spirit aircraft.
B-2 Spirit landing at Whiteman AFB
Image: 72d Test and Evaluation Squadron
Cape Gloucester New Guinea airdrome as a Liberator saw it during pre-invasion bombing, December 1943
Pin-up girl painted on a dumped American World War Two aircraft. Aircraft identity: B-24 Liberator bomber, serial number 44-40546, nose art Two Time, assigned to 72nd Bomb Squadron, 5th Bomb Group, 13th Air Force.