341st Missile Wing

History

The United States Air Force's 341st Missile Wing is an intercontinental ballistic missile unit headquartered at Malmstrom Air Force Base, Montana. Up until 1 July 2008, it was designated as the 341st Space Wing.

Established as a World War II Tenth Air Force North American B-25 Mitchell bomb group in India, the unit served as part of Strategic Air Command during the early part of the Cold War as a Boeing B-47 Stratojet wing, before becoming an intercontinental ballistic missile unit in 1962. Today, the 341st is one of three remaining United States Air Force wings that maintain and operate the LGM-30 Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile.

Text from Wikipedia: 341st Missile Wing, CC BY-SA 4.0, lightly trimmed.

Key dates

1. 1942
   The 341st Missile Wing has its origins in the China-Burma-India Theater of World War II, being activated in India on 15 September 1942.
2. 1945
   It was inactivated on 2 November 1945, the day after Group and Squadron personnel debarked at Newark, New Jersey.
3. 1947
   10th Bombardment Squadron (later 10th Strategic Missile Squadron): 18 June 1947 – 27 June 1949; 1 September 1955 – 25 June 1961; 1 December 1961 – 1 September 1991
4. 1947
   12th Bombardment (later, 12th Strategic Missile) Squadron: 24 July 1947 – 27 June 1949; 1 September 1955 – 25 June 1961; 1 March 1962 – 1 September 1991
5. 1966
   As construction of these new silos proceeded through 1966, the 564th Strategic Missile Squadron stood up on 1 April 1966.
6. 1976
   The unit won its first Blanchard Trophy in SAC's annual Olympic Arena missile competition in 1976 and again captured this most coveted prize in 1986, 1990, and 1991.
7. 1984
   Consolidated with the 341st Strategic Missile Wing as the 341st Strategic Missile Wing on 31 January 1984
8. 1991
   In accordance with the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START), on 28 September 1991, the 341st Missile Wing began taking its Minuteman IIs off alert and began deactivation of the missiles. 150 Minuteman II missiles were removed from their silos.
9. 2009
   On 1 December 2009 it was reassigned to the new Air Force Global Strike Command where it remains on duty 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, every day of the year.

Dates and events quoted from the same Wikipedia article (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Records that place someone with this unit

A unit history doesn't name everyone who served. These records do:

• Morning reports (include Army Air Forces units)
• Search Army and AAF morning reports, 1912–1946 (National Archives Catalog)
• Air Force organizational records and lineage (AFHRA)

More history

• Air Force Historical Research Agency
• Wikipedia: 341st Missile Wing