316th Air Division
The 316th Airlift Division is an inactive United States Air Force organization. Its last assignment was with the United States Air Forces in Europe, assigned to Seventeenth Air Force, being stationed at Ramstein Air Base, Germany. It was inactivated on 1 May 1991.
Lineage
- Established as the 316th Bombardment Wing, Very Heavy on 4 August 1944
- Redesignated 316 Air Division on 26 June 1953
- Redesignated 316 Air Division on 1 June 1985
Assignments
- Second Air Force, 14 August 1944 (attached to XXII Bomber Command, c. 14 August – c. 7 December 1944
- Army Service Forces, 8 July 1945
- Eighth Air Force, 5 September 1945
- 1st Air Division, 13 June 1946 – 21 June 1948
- Seventeenth Air Force, 18 September 1953
- Seventeenth Air Force, 14 June 1985 – 1 May 1991
Stations
- Peterson Field, Colorado, 14 August 1944 – 7 July 1945
- Kadena, Okinawa, 17 August 1945 – 21 June 1948
- Rabat Salé Air Base, French Morocco, 18 September 1953 – 1 April 1960
- Ramstein Air Base, Germany, 14 June 1985 – 1 May 1991
Components
Wing- 86th Tactical Fighter Wing: 14 June 1985 – 1 May 1991
- 22d Bombardment Group: 31 May 1946-by 31 May 1948
- 333d Bombardment Group: 31 August 1945 – 28 May 1946
- 346th Bombardment Group: 31 July 1945 – 30 June 1946
- 382d Bombardment Group: 31 August 1945 – 4 January 1946
- 383d Bombardment Group: 31 August 1945 – 3 January 1946
- 28th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron: 15–29 May 1946
- 45th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron : 18 September 1953 – 8 January 1958
- 324th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron: 1 July 1958 – 8 March 1960
- 357th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron: 18 September 1953 – 8 March 1960
Aircraft
- Boeing B-29 Superfortress, 1945–1948
- North American F-86 Sabre, 1953–1960
- North American F-100 Super Sabre, 1956–1957
- General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon, 1985–1991.