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6th Bomb Wing 1950s – Pirate with Eye Patch

Pilots and Crew!   Fly again with the 6th Bomb Wing 1950s – Pirate with Eye Patch with the beautifully embroidered patch. You’ll be able to wear this patch proudly.

• 3.5 inch
• Embroidered
• US Veteran-Owned Business
• Reproduction

The 6th Bombardment Wing (Medium) was activated Walker Air Force Base, New Mexico on 2 January 1951, where it was assigned to Strategic Air Command (SAC)’s Eighth Air Force. The 24th, 39th and 40th Bombardment Squadrons were simultaneously activated. The squadrons were nominally assigned to the wing’s 6th Bombardment Group, but the group was not operational and the squadrons were attached directly to the wing’s headquarters until the group was inactivated in June 1952. The wing was equipped with Boeing B-29 Superfortress bombers. In August, the 307th Air Refueling Squadron, operating KB-29P Superfortress tankers to refuel the wing’s bombers, moved to Walker from Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona, and was also attached to the Wing.[1][3][note 5]

One month after the wing was activated, it was assigned to the 47th Air Division, which was activated at Walker to serve as the headquarters for the 6th and Walker’s second wing, the 509th Bombardment Wing.[4] In 1952, the 6th converted from the B-29 to the Convair B-36 Peacemaker. The Peacemaker did not require air refueling, so the 307th Squadron’s attachment to the wing ended. On 31 October 1955, the entire wing deployed to Anderson Air Force Base, Guam, remaining there until 26 January 1956, when it returned to Walker. The wing continued to fly the B-36 until 1957, when it began converting to the Boeing B-52 Stratofortress.[1]