13th Strategic Missile Division

13th Strategic Missile Division
564th Strategic Missile Squadron Convair SM-65D Atlas[1]
Active1940–1966
Country United States
Branch United States Air Force
RoleStrategic Missile Command and Control
Engagements

  • World War II EAME Theater
Insignia
13th Strategic Missile Division emblem (approved 4 January 1961)[2]

The 13th Strategic Missile Division is an inactive United States Air Force unit. Its last assignment was with Fifteenth Air Force, based at Francis E. Warren Air Force Base, Wyoming. It was inactivated on 2 July 1966.

Initially formed in 1940 as an air defense formation in the Caribbean, it later commanded Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress groups of Eighth Air Force in the United Kingdom. Its units carried out strategic bombardment missions over Occupied Europe and Nazi Germany. During the Cold War, the division controlling early ICBM wings of Strategic Air Command in the Midwest.

  1. ^ Serial 58-220, on pad 564-A2, Warren I site, F. E. Warren AFB, Wyoming, 1959
  2. ^ "Factsheet 13 Strategic Missile Division". Air Force Historical Research Agency. 4 October 2007. Archived from the original on 30 October 2012. Retrieved 6 April 2014.