The unit's last known assignment was in 2003 at Cairo West Air Base, Egypt, during Operation Iraqi Freedom.

After training in the United States, it deployed to the European Theater of Operations, where it engaged in combat with Consolidated B-24 Liberators.

The wing operated BGM-109G Ground Launched Cruise Missiles until it was inactivated in 1991 with the implementation of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty.

[1] The ground echelon left Alamogordo Army Air Field, New Mexico on 10 March 1944 for the port of embarkation at Camp Kilmer, New Jersey, sailing on the SS Duchess of Bedford and arrived in Great Britain on 3 April.

[9][g] During the Normandy landings, the group struck coastal defenses, road junctions, bridges and rolling stock.

It provided support for Operation Market Garden, the attempt to seize bridgeheads across the Rhine River near Arnhem and Nijmegen in the Netherlands.

It attacked oil refineries in Merseburg, Mannheim and Dulmen; factories in Nuremberg, Hanover and Berlin; and marshalling yards in Köln, Münster, Hamm and Neumunster.

[8] The group was diverted from the strategic bombing campaign to support ground troops during the Battle of the Bulge from December 1944 to January 1945.

Converted to provisional status and activated as an Air Expeditionary Wing during 2003 invasion of Iraq in March 2003.

Inactivated after 90 days of duty due to Air-Force intensive active combat phase of Iraqi invasion having been completed.

This article incorporates public domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency