332d Air Expeditionary Wing
The 332d Air Expeditionary Wing (332 AEW) is a Provisional Air Expeditionary WIng of Air Combat Command, currently inactive. It was inactivated on 8 May 2012.
The Wings 332d Expeditionary Operations Group (332 EOG), is the direct descendant organization of the World War II 332d Fighter Group, the Tuskegee Airmen. The title Tuskegee Airmen refers to all who trained in the groundbreaking Army Air Forces African-American pilot training program at Moton Field and Tuskegee Army Airfield, Alabama between 1941 and 1945. It includes pilots, navigators, bombardiers, maintenance and support staff, instructors and all the personnel who kept the planes in the air.
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