page_title: List of B-47 units of the United States Air Force
section_title: B-47 Medium Bombardment units
hierarchical_section_title: List of B-47 units of the United States Air Force / B-47 Medium Bombardment units
caption_attribution_description: English: 3 Aircraft formation of B-47Es of the 306th Bombardment Wing. Boeing B-47E-95-BW Stratojet 52-545 identifiable. That aircraft was retired to MASDC on 19 November 1965.
context_page_description: The Boeing B-47 Stratojet was operational with the United States Air Force Strategic Air Command beginning in May 1951 with the first operational B-47As to the 306th Bombardment Wing, Medium, based at MacDill AFB, Florida.
  In March 1961, President John F. Kennedy directed the phaseout of the B-47. However this was delayed in July by the onset of the Berlin crisis of 1961–62. In the following years, B-47s were gradually delivered to the Military Aircraft Storage and Disposition Center at Davis-Monthan AFB.
  Strategic Air Command B-47 Bombardment Wings were divided among the Second, Eighth and Fifteenth Air Forces. This list is of the units B-47s were assigned to, and the bases at which they were stationed.
context_section_description: The first operational B-47B Medium bombers were delivered to SAC in July 1951 to the 306th Bombardment Wing, MacDill AFB, Florida.  SAC's last two B-47E bombers went to storage on 11 February 1966 from the 98th Bombardment Wing, Lincoln AFB, Nebraska.
  Operational medium bomber versions of the Stratojet were B-47B (1951–1953) and B-47E (1953–1957).  B-47Bs were modified to B-47E specifications beginning in 1953 to 1957.   By 1957, the B-47Bs had effectively ceased to exist, having been brought up to the B-47E standard.  These modified B-47Bs are sometimes known as B-47B-II, although this was not an official Air Force designation. Outwardly, they could be distinguished from B-47Es only by their serial numbers. 
  
  
   
  2d Bombardment Wing, Hunter AFB, Georgia
  Second Air Force, 25 Nov 1953-1 Apr 1963, B-47E
  20th Bombardment Squadron
  49th Bombardment Squadron
  96th Bombardment Squadron
  429th Bombardment Squadron (1958–1962)*
  Wing transferred to Barksdale AFB, Louisiana in 1963; 20th BS converted to B-52F Stratofortress
  9th Bombardment Wing,  Mountain Home AFB, Idaho
  Fifteenth Air Force, 1 Nov 1952-15 Mar 1963, B-47B/E; EB-47E**
  1st Bombardment Squadron
  5th Bombardment Squadron
  99th Bombardment Squadron
  658th Bombardment Squadron (1958–1962)*
  Wing transferred to Beale AFB, California in 1966; 1st and 99th BS converted to Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird
  19th Bombardment Wing
  Pinecastle AFB, Florida, Jun 1954 – Jul 1956
  Homestead AFB,  Florida, Jul 1956 – Jan 1961
  Second Air Force, 11 Jun 1954-1 Jan 1961, B-47E
  28th Bombardment Squadron
  30th Bombardment Squadron (to 4133d SW, B-52H in 1961)
  93d Bombardment Squadron  (to 4239th SW, B-52H in 1961)
  659th Bombardment Squadron (1958–1961)*
  Converted to B-52F Stratofortress in 1962
  22d Bombardment Wing,  March AFB, California
  Fifteenth Air Force, 1 Nov 1952-15 Mar 1963, B-47B/E
  2d Bombardment Squadron
  19th Bombardment Squadron
  33d Bombardment Squadron
  408th Bombardment Squadron (1959–1962)*
  Converted to B-52B Stratofortress in 1963
  40th Bombardment Wing
  Smoky Hill (later Schilling) AFB, Kansas, 28 May 1952-20 Jun 1960
  Forbes AFB,     Kansas, 20 Jun 1960-1 Sep 1965
  Fifteenth Air Force (1952–1960), Second Air Force, 1960–1964, B-47E
  25th Bombardment Squadron
  44th Bombardment Squadron
  45th Bombardment Squadron
  660th Bombardment Squadron (1959–1960)
  Inactivated 1 September 1964
  43d Bombardment Wing,  Davis-Monthan AFB, Arizona
  Fifteenth Air Force, 25 Sep 1953-15 Mar 1960, B-47E
  63d Bombardment Squadron
  64th Bombardment Squadron
  65th Bombardment Squadron
  403d Bombardment Squadron (1958–1960)*
  Converted to B-58 Hustler at Carswell AFB, Texas in 1960
  44th Bombardment Wing
  Lake Charles (later Chennault) AFB, Louisiana
  Second Air Force, 25 Apr 1953-15 Jun 1960, B-47B/E
  66th Bombardment Squadron
  67th Bombardment Squadron
  68th Bombardment Squadron
  506th Bombardment Squadron (1958–1960)*
  Inactivated 15 June 1960; became 44th Strategic Missile Wing at Ellsworth
  68th Bombardment Wing
  Lake Charles (later Chennault) AFB, Louisiana
  Second Air Force, 25 Oct 1953-15 Apr 1963, B-47E
  51st Bombardment Squadron
  52d Bombardment Squadron
  656th Bombardment Squadron
  657th Bombardment Squadron (1958–1963)*
  Wing transferred to Seymour Johnson AFB, North Carolina in 1963; 51st BS converted to B-52G Stratofortress
  93d Bombardment Wing,  Castle AFB, California
  Fifteenth Air Force, 15 Apr 1954-1 Feb 1955, B-47E
  328th Bombardment Squadron
  329th Bombardment Squadron
  330th Bombardment Squadron
  Functioned as a SAC Training Wing – Not Operational; Wing converted to B-52B Stratofortress in 1956
  96th Bombardment Wing
  Second Air Force, Altus AFB, Oklahoma, 18 Nov 1953-3 Sep 1957, B-47E
  Fifteenth Air Force, Dyess AFB, Texas, 4 Sep 1957-18 Mar 1963, B-47E
  337th Bombardment Squadron
  338th Bombardment Squadron
  339th Bombardment Squadron
  413th Bombardment Squadron (1958–1961)*
  Converted to B-52E Stratofortress in 1962
  97th Bombardment Wing, Biggs AFB, Texas
  Fifteenth Air Force, 1 Apr 1955-1 Oct 1959, B-47E
  340th Bombardment Squadron
  341st Bombardment Squadron (to 4038th SW, B-52G in 1960)
  342d Bombardment Squadron  (to 4137th SW, B-52G in 1
caption: 3 Aircraft formation of B-47Es of the 306th Bombardment Wing. Boeing B-47E-95-BW Stratojet 52-545 identifiable. That aircraft was retired to MASDC on 19 November 1965.
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