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VII Bomber Command

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VII Bomber Command
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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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It engaged in patrol operations from Hawaii from January 1942. On the night of 22-23 December 1942, twenty-six Consolidated B-24D Liberators of the 307th Bombardment Group staged through Midway Island for a strike on Wake Island with 135 500-pound general purpose bombs and 21 incendiaries. The attack may have taken the Japanese by surprise, as neither searchlights nor antiaircraft fire were encountered until after the bombing had begun. All planes returned safely, with only slight damage to two.[2]

After late 1943, VII Bomber Command served in combat in the Central and Western Pacific.

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Lineage

  • Constituted as the 7th Bomber Command on 23 January 1942[note 1]
Activated on 29 January 1942
  • Redesignated VII Bomber Command c. 18 September 1942
Inactivated on 31 March 1946
Disbanded on 8 October 1948[1]

Commanders

  • Brig Gen Willis H. Hale (29 January 1942 – 19 June 1942)
  • Col Albert F. Hegenberger (20 June 1942 – 25 June 1942)
  • Brig Gen William E. Lynd (25 June 1942 – November 1942)
  • Brig Gen LaVerne G. Saunders (8 January 1943 – January 1943)
  • Brig Gen Truman H. Landon (January 1943 – 10 December 1944)
  • Brig Gen Lawrence J. Carr (11 December 1944 – October 1945)[1]

Assignments

  • Hawaiian Air Force (later 7th Air Force, Seventh Air Force) (attached to Patrol Wing 2, 1942; Task Force 59, May 1944-unknown), 23 January 1942[3]
  • not confirmed, 1 January – 31 March 1946.

Stations

Bairiki (Mullinix) Airfield, January–March 1944[citation needed]

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