page_title: 450th Bombardment Wing
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: 450th Bombardment Wing / History
caption_attribution_description: English: F-100s of the 450th Fighter-Day Wing on the flightline at Foster AFB, Texas, 1956
context_page_description: The 450th Bombardment Wing is an inactive United States Air Force unit. It was last assigned to the 810th Strategic Aerospace Division of Strategic Air Command at Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota. It was inactivated on 25 July 1968.
  The wing was constituted as a fighter unit and activated briefly in the 1950s under Tactical Air Command at Foster Air Force Base, Texas, where it replaced a flying training wing. It was the first USAF combat wing to fly the North American F-100 Super Sabre.
  The wing was redesignated as the 450th Bombardment Wing and activated at Minot in 1963, replacing the 4136th Strategic Wing taking over its Boeing B-52 Stratofortresses. It supported SAC combat operations in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War. It was inactivated and replaced by the 5th Bombardment Wing, Heavy, in July 1968.
caption: North American F-100s of the 450th Fighter-Day Group, about 1956.[note 1]
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