page_title: 820th Strategic Aerospace Division
hierarchical_section_title: 820th Strategic Aerospace Division
caption_attribution_description: English: A B-47 bomber with the inscription "Pride of the Adirondacks", one of two aircraft on display in the Clyde A. Lewis Air Park.
context_page_description: The 820th Strategic Aerospace Division is an inactive United States Air Force organization. Its last assignment was with Strategic Air Command's Eighth Air Force at Plattsburgh Air Force Base, New York, where it was inactivated on 25 June 1965.
  The division was activated as the 820th Air Division in 1956 to command the two Boeing B-47 Stratojet wings planned for Plattsburgh. However, the arrival of the second wing was delayed, and in 1959 the 820th was assigned two SAC Boeing B-52 Stratofortress strategic wings and air refueling wings at bases in New York and Maine. Although the second bombardment wing finally arrived at Plattsburgh, it remained a paper unit until it was inactivated.
  By 1961, the division had returned to commanding the bombardment and refueling wings at Plattsburgh and managing support units there. It added SM-65 Atlas intercontinental ballistic missiles and EB-47 Stratojets of the Post Attack Command and Control System within the next year. The missiles brought with them a new name for the division, the 820th Strategic Aerospace Division.
context_section_description: The 820th Strategic Aerospace Division is an inactive United States Air Force organization.  Its last assignment was with Strategic Air Command (SAC)'s Eighth Air Force at Plattsburgh Air Force Base, New York, where it was inactivated on 25 June 1965.
  The division was activated as the 820th Air Division in 1956 to command the two Boeing B-47 Stratojet wings planned for Plattsburgh.  However, the arrival of the second wing was delayed, and in 1959 the 820th was assigned two SAC Boeing B-52 Stratofortress strategic wings and air refueling wings at bases in New York and Maine.  Although the second bombardment wing finally arrived at Plattsburgh, it remained a paper unit until it was inactivated.
  By 1961, the division had returned to commanding the bombardment and refueling wings at Plattsburgh and managing support units there.  It added SM-65 Atlas intercontinental ballistic missiles and EB-47 Stratojets of the Post Attack Command and Control System within the next year.  The missiles brought with them a new name for the division, the 820th Strategic Aerospace Division.
  However, by 1964 the division was reduced to commanding a single wing at Plattsburgh and an air refueling squadron in Delaware.  When the Delaware squadron moved to Oklahoma and was reassigned in June 1965, the division was inactivated.
caption: B-47 Stratojet, on display in Plattsburgh, NY, with markings of the 380th Bombardment Wing
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