Episode 784
376th Expeditionary Operations Group
Thu, 2019-Jun-27 00:50 UTC
Length - 2:06
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The random article for Thursday, 27 June 2019 is 376th Expeditionary Operations Group.
The 376th Expeditionary Operations Group was a provisional United States Air Force Air Combat Command unit. It was stationed at the Transit Center at Manas International Airport, Kyrgyz Republic, up until 2014.
Originally activated in World War II as the 376th Bombardment Group (Heavy), it was the first Consolidated B-24 Liberator group to be based on European Continent. The group engaged in combat as part of the Ninth, Twelfth and Fifteenth Air Forces in the Egypt-Libya and Italian Campaigns. The group was awarded Distinguished Unit Citations for operations over North Africa and Sicily, November 1942 – 17 August 1943; Ploiești, Romania, 1 August 1943 and Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, 16 June 1944. The B-24D Lady Be Good was assigned to the 514th Bombardment Squadron.
The 376th is the lead Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker air refueling unit for Afghanistan operations. Other USAF aircraft supporting the mission include Boeing C-17 Globemaster IIIs.
This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 00:50 UTC on Thursday, 27 June 2019.
For the full current version of the article, see 376th Expeditionary Operations Group on Wikipedia.
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