The 961st Airborne Air Control Squadron is part of the 18th Wing at Kadena Air Base, Japan. It operates the E-3 Sentry aircraft conducting airborne command and control missions.
Squadron E-3 Sentry at Kadena AB
961st Airborne Air Control Squadron
961 awacs patch 1981 1995
Boeing B-17C
XXI Bomber Command
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The XXI Bomber Command was a unit of the Twentieth Air Force in the Mariana Islands for strategic bombing during World War II.
29th Bombardment Group North Field Guam 1945
39th Bombardment Group B-29 Superfortress dropping 500 pound high-explosive bombs over Japan. Note the high winds in the jet stream scattering the bombs, making precision bombing ineffective from high altitudes.
42-65286 1st Bomb Squadron, 9th Bombardment Group, the first to land on Iwo Jima, 4 March 1945.
Formation of 19th Bombardment Group B-29 Superfortresses 1945