305th Air Division

305th Air Division
P-51 Mustang of the 31st Fighter Group
Active	1943–1945; 1947–1949
Country	United States
Branch	United States Air Force
Role	Command of bombardment units
Motto(s)	Aquilia Non Capit Muscas (Latin for 'The Eagle Does Not Hunt Flies')
Engagements	Mediterranean Theater of Operations
Commanders
Lt Col Earl J. Nesbitt	2 January 1944
Lt Col Julian M. Bleyer	14 January 1944 – April 1944
Col William R. Morgan	13 June – 9 September 1945[a]
Insignia
Patch with Unofficial 305th Bombardment Wing emblem[1]

The 305th Air Division is an inactive United States Air Force organization. Its last assignment was with Continental Air Command, assigned to Fourth Air Force at McChord Air Force Base, Washington, where it was inactivated on 27 June 1949.

The division was first activated in December 1943 as the 305th Bombardment Wing, although it was used to man other organizations and had no combat units assigned until a month after VE Day when it absorbed the assets of a provisional fighter wing, and the units of another fighter wing, but no bombardment units. When the surrender of Japan occurred, the unit no longer anticipated a transfer to the Pacific and was inactivated in September 1945. It was activated in the reserves in 1947.

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