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742d Missile Squadron
LGM-30G Minuteman III test launch at Vandenberg AFB, California
Active	1943–1945; 1947–1949; 1956–1957; 1962–present
Country	United States
Branch	United States Air Force
Role	Intercontinental ballistic missile
Part of	Air Force Global Strike Command
Garrison/HQ	Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota
Nickname(s)	Wolfpack
Motto(s)	Clavis Pacis (Latin for 'The Key to Peace')
Engagements	Mediterranean Theater of Operations
Decorations	Distinguished Unit Citation Air Force Outstanding Unit Award
Commanders
Current commander	Lt. Col. Jake Lusson
Insignia
742d Missile Squadron emblem
742d Bombardment Squadron emblem

The 742d Missile Squadron is a United States Air Force unit stationed at Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota. The squadron is equipped with the LGM-30G Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile, with a mission of nuclear deterrence.

The squadron was first activated as the 742d Bombardment Squadron in June 1943. After training in the United States with the Consolidated B-24 Liberator bombers, the 742d deployed to the Mediterranean Theater of Operations, participating in the strategic bombing campaign against Germany. It earned two Distinguished Unit Citations for its combat operations. Following V-E Day, it remained in Italy without its flight echelon until inactivating in September 1945

The squadron was activated in the reserve in 1947, but apparently was not fully manned or equipped before inactivating in June 1949 and transferring its resources to another unit. It was redesignated the 742d Fighter-Day Squadron and activated, but did not become operational before inactivating in July 1957. In November 1962 it was organized as the 742d Strategic Missile Squadron, an LGM-30B Minuteman I squadron. In 1971 it upgraded to the Minuteman III, and is currently a part of the 91st Operations Group.

Mission

The 742d Missile Squadron controls and maintains 50 launch facilities and 5 missile alert facilities. The squadron is divided into missile operations flights, which are responsible for day-to-day operations, maintenance, and security, and an operations support flight, which is responsible for ensuring the readiness of the missile alert facilities.

History

World War II

Training in the United States

The squadron was first activated at Alamogordo Army Air Field, New Mexico on 1 June 1943 as the 742d Bombardment Squadron, one of the four squadrons of the 455th Bombardment Group. The initial cadre for the squadron was drawn from the 302d Bombardment Group. In July, a group cadre was given advanced tactical training by the Army Air Forces School of Applied Tactics at Orlando Army Air Base and Pinecastle Army Air Field, Florida. After organizing at Alamogordo, the squadron moved to Utah, where the ground echelon was stationed at Kearns Army Air Base, although flying operations were based at Salt Lake City Army Air Base. After completing training at Langley Field, Virginia, the squadron departed the United States for the Mediterranean Theater of Operations in December 1943. The air echelon began staging through Mitchel Field, New York to ferry their Liberators via the southern ferry route. The ground echelon sailed on the SS William T. Barry.

Combat operations

The air echelon of the squadron was delayed in Tunisia and was not entirely lodged at the squadron's combat station of San Giovanni Airfield, Italy until 1 February 1944, and the squadron flew its first mission that month. The squadron was engaged primarily in the strategic bombing campaign against Germany, attacking targets like airfields, factories, oil refineries, harbors, marshalling yards in Italy, France, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Romania, and Yugoslavia.

On 2 April 1944, the squadron attacked a ball bearing plant at Steyr, Austria for which it earned a Distinguished Unit Citation (DUC). The primary target, the Daimler-Pusch aircraft engine factory was obscured by clouds, so the unit attacked the nearby ball bearing plant although attacks by an estimated 75 twin engine fighters continued through the bomb run and heavy, accurate flak was encountered. The squadron lost two Liberators in the attack, but claimed the destruction of six enemy aircraft. Five crewmembers from one of the B-24s lost in the attack bailed out in territory controlled by Yugoslav Partisans and were able to evade German forces and returned to the squadron a month after the attack.

On 26 June 1944, the squadron encountered fighter opposition that was described as the strongest Fifteenth Air Force had encountered to date, and which destroyed several Liberators of the 455th Group, which was leading the 304th Bombardment Wing on the raid. On this mission, the squadron suffered its heaviest losses of the war, with six planes lost to enemy action. Only one of the squadron's Liberators that reached the target returned safely. The squadron pressed its attack on an oil refinery at Moosbierbaum, Austria, for which it received a second DUC.

The squadron provided air support to ground forces in Operation Shingle, the landings at Anzio and the Battle of Monte Cassino in the spring of 1944. It knocked out coastal defenses to clear the way for Operation Dragoon, the invasion of southern France in September. As Axis forces were withdrawing from the Balkan peninsula in the fall of 1944, the squadron bombed marshalling yards, troop concentrations and airfields to slow their retreat. It flew air interdiction missions to support Operation Grapeshot, the Spring 1945 offensive in Northern Italy.

The squadron flew its last combat mission on 25 April 1945 against rail yards at Linz, Austria. Following the surrender of German forces in Italy, it flew some supply missions and transported personnel to ports and airfields for shipment back to the United States. Most of the air echelon returned to the United States, ferrying their aircraft in June. Many of the squadron's remaining personnel were transferred to other units in the 304th Bombardment Wing for shipment back to the United States, while the squadron remained in Italy, serving as a replacement depot. The last of the air echelon departed Italy in July and the squadron was inactivated on 9 September 1945.

Air Force reserve

The squadron was reactivated as a reserve unit under Air Defense Command (ADC) at Hensley Field, Texas in June 1947, where its training was supervised by ADC's 4122d AAF Base Unit (later the 2596th Air Force Reserve Training Center). It was nominally a very heavy bomber unit, but the squadron does not appear to have been fully manned or equipped while a reserve unit. In 1948 Continental Air Command (ConAC) assumed responsibility for managing reserve and Air National Guard units from ADC. President Truman's reduced 1949 defense budget required reductions in the number of units in the Air Force. ConAC also reorganized its reserve units under the wing base organization system in June 1949. As a result, the squadron was inactivated and its personnel and equipment were absorbed by elements of the 443d Troop Carrier Wing, which was activated simultaneously at Hensley Field.

Tactical Air Command

The squadron was redesignated the 742d Fighter-Day Squadron and activated at Myrtle Beach Air Force Base, South Carolina in July 1956 as Tactical Air Command planned to organize a second North American F-100 Super Sabre wing there. Some personnel were assigned to the unit, but it never became operational with aircraft. It was inactivated in July 1957 and its few personnel assigned were reassigned to elements of the 354th Fighter-Day Wing.

Intercontinental ballistic missile squadron

The squadron was redesignated the 742d Strategic Missile Squadron and activated on 1 January 1963 as an intercontinental ballistic missile squadron at Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota. The squadron was initially equipped with 50 LGM-30B Minuteman Is, and placed its first missile on alert in 1963. The 742d upgraded to the LGM-30G Minuteman III in 1970 to 1971. It has maintained ICBMs on alert ever since.

Squadron missile sites are designated by flight, using one letter of the alphabet, followed by a number. The first site in each flight is #1 and designates the Missile Alert Facility, which consists of an above-ground structure plus an underground launch control center staffed by two officers. The launch facilities, are numbered 2 through 11 and are connected to the launch control center by hardened intersite cables, which also interconnect flights. The 742d includes flights K through O. Squadron missile alert facilities (each controlling 10 missiles) are located as follows:

K-1 8.8 mi SSW of Kenmare ND, 48°33′02″N 102°07′12″W / 48.55056°N 102.12000°W / 48.55056; -102.12000 (K-01)

L-1 1.5 mi SW of Bowbells ND, 48°47′21″N 102°16′06″W / 48.78917°N 102.26833°W / 48.78917; -102.26833 (L-01)

M-1 9.1 mi E of Kenmare ND, 48°40′22″N 101°52′31″W / 48.67278°N 101.87528°W / 48.67278; -101.87528 (M-01)

N-1 3.7 mi W of Mohall ND, 48°45′34″N 101°35′31″W / 48.75944°N 101.59194°W / 48.75944; -101.59194 (N-01)

O-1 9.5 mi NW of Maxbass ND, 48°49′28″N 101°16′55″W / 48.82444°N 101.28194°W / 48.82444; -101.28194 (O-01)

The squadron has undergone several changes in assignment that did not affect its mission. In June 1968, the 455th Strategic Missile Wing at Minot was replaced by the 91st Strategic Missile Wing, which moved from Glasgow Air Force Base, Montana to Minot on paper, and the squadron was reassigned to the 91st Wing. In September 1991 Strategic Air Command (SAC) reorganized its combat wings under the combat wing organization, and the 91st Wing's missile squadrons were assigned to the reactivated 91st Operations Group. In 1992, the Air Force reorganized its combat forces. SAC was inactivated and the squadron became an element of Air Combat Command until July 1993, when it became part of Air Force Space Command. Between 1994 and 1996, the wing was reduced to group level. In December 2009, the Air Force's nuclear capable missile units, including the 742d, were transferred to Air Force Global Strike Command.

Lineage

• Constituted as the 742d Bombardment Squadron (Heavy) on 14 May 1943

Activated on 1 June 1943

Redesignated 742d Bombardment Squadron, Heavy on 6 March 1944

Inactivated on 9 September 1945

• Redesignated 742d Bombardment Squadron, Very Heavy on 13 August 1947

Activated in the reserve on 9 September 1947

Inactivated on 27 June 1949

• Redesignated 742d Fighter-Day Squadron on 7 May 1956

Activated on 25 July 1956

Inactivated on 1 July 1957

• Redesignated 742d Strategic Missile Squadron and activated on 18 July 1962 (not organized)

Organized on 1 January 1963

Redesignated as 742d Missile Squadron on 1 September 1991

Assignments

• 455th Bombardment Group, 1 June 1943 – 9 September 1945
• 455th Bombardment Group, 9 September 1947 – 27 June 1949
• 455th Fighter-Day Group, 25 July 1956 – 1 July 1957
• Strategic Air Command, 18 July 1962 (not organized)
• 455th Strategic Missile Wing, 1 January 1963
• 91st Strategic Missile Wing, 25 June 1968
• 91st Operations Group, 1 September 1991
• 91st Missile Group, 1 July 1994
• 91st Operations Group, 1 February 1996 – present

Stations

• Alamogordo Army Air Field, New Mexico, 1 June 1943
• Kearns Army Air Base, Utah, 9 September 1943
• Langley Field, Virginia, 5 October – 13 December 1943
• San Giovanni Airfield, Italy, 15 January 1944 – 9 September 1945
• Hensley Field, Texas, 9 September 1947 – 27 June 1949
• Myrtle Beach Air Force Base, South Carolina, 25 July 1956 – 1 July 1957
• Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota, 1 January 1963 – present

Aircraft and missiles

• Consolidated B-24 Liberator, 1943–1945
• LGM-30B Minuteman I, 1963–1971
• LGM-30G Minuteman III, 1968–present

Awards and campaigns

Award streamer	Award	Dates	Notes
	Distinguished Unit Citation	2 April 1944	Steyr, Austria, 742d Bombardment Squadron
	Distinguished Unit Citation	26 June 1944	Austria, 742d Bombardment Squadron
	Air Force Outstanding Unit Award	1 July 1972-30 June 1973	742d Strategic Missile Squadron
	Air Force Outstanding Unit Award	1 July 1972-30 June 1973	742d Strategic Missile Squadron
	Air Force Outstanding Unit Award	1 July 1976-30 June 1978	742d Strategic Missile Squadron
	Air Force Outstanding Unit Award	1 July 1978-30 June 1980	742d Strategic Missile Squadron
	Air Force Outstanding Unit Award	1 July 1989-14 February 1991	742d Strategic Missile Squadron
	Air Force Outstanding Unit Award	1 September 1993-31 August 1995	742d Missile Squadron
	Air Force Outstanding Unit Award	1 September 1995-31 August 1997	742d Missile Squadron
	Air Force Outstanding Unit Award	1 October 1998-30 September 2000	742d Missile Squadron
	Air Force Outstanding Unit Award	1 October 2000-1 October 2001	742d Missile Squadron
	Air Force Outstanding Unit Award	1 January-31 December 2002	742d Missile Squadron

Campaign Streamer	Campaign	Dates	Notes
	Air Offensive, Europe	15 January 1944 – 5 June 1944	742d Bombardment Squadron
	Air Combat, EAME Theater	15 January 1944 – 11 May 1945	742d Bombardment Squadron
	Naples-Foggia	15 January 1944 – 21 January 1944	742d Bombardment Squadron
	Anzio	22 January 1944 – 24 May 1944	742d Bombardment Squadron
	Rome-Arno	22 January 1944 – 9 September 1944	742d Bombardment Squadron
	Central Europe	22 March 1944 – 21 May 1945	742d Bombardment Squadron
	Normandy	6 June 1944 – 24 July 1944	742d Bombardment Squadron
	Northern France	25 July 1944 – 14 September 1944	742d Bombardment Squadron
	Southern France	15 August 1944 – 14 September 1944	742d Bombardment Squadron
	North Apennines	10 September 1944 – 4 April 1945	742d Bombardment Squadron
	Rhineland	15 September 1944 – 21 March 1945	742d Bombardment Squadron
	Po Valley	3 April 1945 – 8 May 1945	742d Bombardment Squadron

See also

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48°24′57″N 101°21′29″W / 48.41583°N 101.35806°W / 48.41583; -101.35806 (Minot AFB)

• List of United States Air Force missile squadrons
• List of United States Air Force fighter squadrons
• B-24 Liberator units of the United States Army Air Forces

References

Notes

Explanatory notes

1. Modified 4 November 1998 from emblem approved 4 May 1964.
2. This emblem was apparently never approved. See Maurer, Combat Squadrons, p. 731 (no approved emblem as of 1963).
3. Aircraft is Ford Motors built Consolidated B-24H-10-FO Liberator, serial 42-52249, Fords Folly. This plane was shot down over Sichelbach, Austria on 16 June 1944. Baugher, Joe (14 May 2023). "1942 USAF Serial Numbers". Joe Baugher. Retrieved 14 June 2023. Missing Air Crew Report 6956.

Citations

1. ^ Robertson, Patsy (9 June 2010). "Factsheet 742 Missile Squadron (AFGSC)". Air Force Historical Research Agency. Retrieved 21 October 2016.
2. Watkins, pp. 100-101
3. No byline (8 May 2006). "Minot Air Force Base Factsheets: 742nd Missile Squadron". 5th Bomb Wing Public Affairs. Archived from the original on 25 February 2013. Retrieved 22 April 2019.
4. ^ Maurer, Combat Units, p. 330
5. Asch, et al., pp. 10-13
6. Asch, et al., p. 25
7. Asch, et al., p.32
8. Asch, et al., pp. 61-67
9. Asch, et al., pp. 82-85
10. Asch, et al., p. 156
11. Asch, et al., p. 161
12. See Maurer, Combat Squadrons, p. 731 (listing no aircraft for the period 1947-1949)
13. "Abstract, Mission Project Closeup, Continental Air Command". Air Force History Index. 27 December 1961. Retrieved 24 March 2014.
14. Knaack, p. 25
15. Ravenstein, pp. 240-241
16. Maurer, Combat Squadrons, p. 731
17. Kirkpatrick, Jim. "Minot AFB Minuteman Missile Site Coordinates". University of Wyoming. Archived from the original on 4 October 2013. Retrieved 20 April 2019.
18. Ravenstein, pp. 125-128, 250
19. Haulman, Daniel L. (17 July 2009). "Factsheet Air Force Global Strike Command". Air Force Historical Research Agency. Retrieved 21 April 2019.
20. Bailey, Carl E. (24 July 2008). "Factsheet Air Force Space Command". Air Force Historical Research Agency. Retrieved 21 April 2019.

Bibliography

 This article incorporates public domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency

• Asch, Col Alfred; Graff, Col Hugh R.; Ramey, Lt Col Thomas A. (1991). 455th Bomb Group (H): Flight of the Vulgar Vultures. Appleton WI: Graphic Communications Center. Retrieved 16 April 2019.
• Knaack, Marcelle Size (1978). Encyclopedia of US Air Force Aircraft and Missile Systems (PDF). Vol. 2, Post-World War II Bombers 1945-1973. Washington, DC: Office of Air Force History. ISBN 0-912799-59-5. Retrieved 17 December 2016.
• Maurer, Maurer, ed. (1983) . Air Force Combat Units of World War II (PDF) (reprint ed.). Washington, DC: Office of Air Force History. ISBN 0-912799-02-1. LCCN 61060979.
• Maurer, Maurer, ed. (1982) . Combat Squadrons of the Air Force, World War II (PDF) (reprint ed.). Washington, DC: Office of Air Force History. ISBN 0-405-12194-6. LCCN 70605402. OCLC 72556.
• Ravenstein, Charles A. (1984). Air Force Combat Wings, Lineage & Honors Histories 1947-1977. Washington, DC: Office of Air Force History. ISBN 0-912799-12-9.
• Watkins, Robert A. (2009). Insignia and Aircraft Markings of the U.S. Army Air Force In World War II. Vol. IV, European-African-Middle Eastern Theater of Operations. Atglen, PA: Shiffer Publishing, Ltd. ISBN 978-0-7643-3401-6.

External links

• Minot AFB Minuteman Missile Site Coordinates
• 91st Missile Wing fact sheet
• 742d Missile Squadron web page

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Stations	Tunisia Bizerte Depienne Enfidaville Massicault Oudna Pont du Fahs Sainte Marie du Zit Soliman Italy Amendola Bari Castelltuccio Cattolica Celone Cerignola Fano Foggia Gioia del Colle Grottaglie Giulia Lesina Lucera Madna Manduria Marcianise Mondolfo Pantanella Piagiolino Pisa Rimini Salsosa San Giovanni San Pancrazio San Severo Spinazzola Sterparone Tortorella Torremaggiore Torretto Triolo Venosa Vincenzo
Units	Wings 5th Bombardment 47th Bombardment 49th Bombardment 55th Bombardment 304th Bombardment 305th Fighter (P) 306th Fighter Groups Bombardment 2d Bombardment 97th Bombardment 98th Bombardment 99th Bombardment 301st Bombardment 376th Bombardment 449th Bombardment 450th Bombardment 451st Bombardment 454th Bombardment 455th Bombardment 456th Bombardment 459th Bombardment 460th Bombardment 461st Bombardment 463d Bombardment 464th Bombardment 465th Bombardment 483d Bombardment 484th Bombardment 485th Bombardment Fighter 1st Fighter 14th Fighter 31st Fighter 52d Fighter 82d Fighter 325th Fighter 332d Fighter
United States Army Air Forces First Second Third Fourth Fifth Sixth Seventh Eighth Ninth Tenth Eleventh Twelfth Thirteenth Fourteenth Fifteenth Twentieth

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Airfields	Airfields
Units	Commands II Air Support Command II Bomber Command II Fighter Command IV Air Support Command XX Bomber Command XXI Bomber Command XXII Bomber Command Wings 5th Bombardment 15th Bombardment Training 16th Bombardment Operational Training 17th Bombardment Training 18th Replacement 21st Bombardment 46th Bombardment Operational Training 58th Bombardment 73rd Bombardment 315th Bombardment 316th Bombardment Groups Bombardment 2nd Bombardment 6th Bombardment 7th Bombardment 9th Bombardment 12th Bombardment 16th Bombardment 17th Bombardment 19th Bombardment 25th Bombardment 29th Bombardment 34th Bombardment 39th Bombardment 40th Bombardment 42nd Bombardment 46th Bombardment 47th Bombardment 48th Bombardment 85th Bombardment 86th Bombardment 86th Bombardment 88th Bombardment 94th Bombardment 95th Bombardment 96th Bombardment 99th Bombardment 100th Bombardment 301st Bombardment 302nd Bombardment 303rd Bombardment 304th Bombardment 305th Bombardment 306th Bombardment 307th Bombardment 308th Bombardment 312th Bombardment 330th Bombardment 331st Bombardment 333rd Bombardment 346th Bombardment 351st Bombardment 376th Bombardment 379th Bombardment 381st Bombardment 382nd Bombardment 383rd Bombardment 384th Bombardment 385th Bombardment 388th Bombardment 390th Bombardment 393rd Bombardment 395th Bombardment 396th Bombardment 398th Bombardment 399th Bombardment 400th Bombardment 401st Bombardment 407th Bombardment 415th Bombardment 418th Bombardment 444th Bombardment 445th Bombardment 446th Bombardment 447th Bombardment 448th Bombardment 449th Bombardment 450th Bombardment 451st Bombardment 452nd Bombardment 453rd Bombardment 454th Bombardment 455th Bombardment 456th Bombardment 457th Bombardment 458th Bombardment 459th Bombardment 460th Bombardment 461st Bombardment 462nd Bombardment 464th Bombardment 467th Bombardment 468th Bombardment 469th Bombardment 470th Bombardment 471st Bombardment 472nd Bombardment 484th Bombardment 485th Bombardment 486th Bombardment 487th Bombardment 488th Bombardment 489th Bombardment 490th Bombardment 491st Bombardment 493rd Bombardment 494th Bombardment 497th Bombardment 498th Bombardment 499th Bombardment 500th Bombardment 501st Bombardment 502nd Bombardment 504th Bombardment 505th Bombardment 509th Composite Fighter 20th Fighter 54th Fighter 84th Fighter 85th Fighter 507th Fighter 508th Fighter Reconnaissance 2nd Reconnaissance 3rd Reconnaissance 4th Reconnaissance 5th Reconnaissance 6th Reconnaissance 7th Reconnaissance 8th Reconnaissance 71st Reconnaissance 77th Reconnaissance Troop Carrier 443nd Troop Carrier
United States Army Air Forces First Second Third Fourth Fifth Sixth Seventh Eighth Ninth Tenth Eleventh Twelfth Thirteenth Fourteenth Fifteenth Twentieth

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