19th Air Refueling Squadron
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The 19th Air Refueling Squadron (19 ARS) is an inactive unit of the United States Air Force
. At the time of its inactivation, it was based at Otis Air Force Base.
United States Air Force
The United States Air Force is the aerial warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the American uniformed services. Initially part of the United States Army, the USAF was formed as a separate branch of the military on September 18, 1947 under the National Security Act of...
. At the time of its inactivation, it was based at Otis Air Force Base.
Lineage
- 19th Air Refueling Squadron. Medium (1956–1966)
- 19th Ferrying Squadron (1943–1944)
- 19th Air Corps Ferrying Squadron (1942–1943)
Assignments
- 3rd Ferrying Group (1942–1944)
- 19th Bombardment Wing (1956–1960)
- 379th Bombardment Wing (1956) (Attached while receiving personnel and equipment)
- 4050th Air Refueling Wing (1960–1961)
- 4038th Strategic Wing (1961–1963)
- 397th Bombardment Wing397th Bombardment WingThe 397th Bombardment Wing is an inactive United States Air Force unit, last assigned to the Strategic Air Command 45th Air Division. It was last stationed at Dow Air Force Base, Maine, and was inactivated on 25 April 1968....
(1963) - 499th Air Refueling Wing499th Air Refueling WingThe United States Air Force's 499th Air Refueling Wing was an aerial refueling unit located at Westover AFB, Massachusetts. It was inactivated in 1966....
(1963–1964) - 817th Air Division817th Air DivisionThe 817th Air Division is an inactive United States Air Force organization. Its last assignment was with Strategic Air Command, assigned to Second Air Force, being stationed at Pease Air Force Base, New Hampshire...
(1964–1966)
Stations
- Romulus Army Airfield, (1942–1944)
- Homestead Air Force Base (1956–1960)
- Ben Guerir Air BaseBen Guerir Air BaseBen Guerir Air Base is a former United States Air Force base located in Morocco, later operated by the Royal Moroccan Air Force, which served as a Transatlantic Abort Landing site for the Space Shuttle...
(1957) - Lajes Air Base (1958)
- Ben Guerir Air Base
- Otis Air Force Base (1960–1966)
- RAF Brize NortonRAF Brize NortonRAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire, about west north-west of London, is the largest station of the Royal Air Force. It is close to the settlements of Brize Norton, Carterton and Witney....
(1963) - RAF FairfordRAF FairfordRAF Fairford is a Royal Air Force station in Gloucestershire, England. It is a standby airfield, not in everyday use. Its most prominent use in recent years has been as an airfield for United States Air Force B-52s during the 2003 Iraq War, Operation Allied Force in 1999, and the first Gulf War in...
(1963)
- RAF Brize Norton
External links
- 19th Air Refueling Squadron (Archived 2009-10-22)