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VI Bomber Command
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The VI Bomber Command was a military formation of the United States Army Air Forces. Its last assignment was with Sixth Air Force. It was based throughout its service at Albrook Field, in the Panama Canal Zone. It was inactivated on 1 November 1946.

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It engaged in antisubmarine operations from the Canal Zone. It was credited with two submarines sunk and shared two others.[2]

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Lineage

  • Constituted as the 6th Bomber Command on 17 October 1941[note 2]
Activated on 25 October 1941[3]
  • Res\designated VI Bomber Command c. 18 September 1942
Inactivated on 1 November 1946
Disbanded on 8 October 1948[1]

Assignments

  • Caribbean Air Force (later 6th Air Force, Sixth Air Force), 25 October 1941 – 1 November 1946[1]

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