It was last assigned to the 44th Strategic Missile Wing at Ellsworth Air Force Base, South Dakota, where it was inactivated on 25 March 1965.

After training in the United States, it deployed to the European Theater of Operations and participated in the strategic bombing campaign against Germany.

In December, it moved to Mountain Home Army Air Field, Idaho, where it began training with Consolidated B-24 Liberators.

[3][4] Once transition to the B-17 was completed on 24 August, the squadron concentrated on strategic bombing, attacking oil refineries, airfields, marshalling yards, and factories manufacturing aircraft and armored vehicles.

[4] Following V-E Day, the squadron carried food to flooded areas of the Netherlands and transported prisoners of war to Allied repatriation centers.

[7] On 19 November 1964, Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara announced the phase-out of remaining first-generation SM-65 Atlas and Titan I missiles by the end of June 1965.

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