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    The 509th Composite Group (509 CG) was a unit of the United States Army Air Forces created during World War II and tasked with the operational deployment...
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    II 509th Composite Group (509 CG), which conducted the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, in August 1945. Redesignated the 509th Bombardment...
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     633. 509th Composite Group 1945, p. 1. 509th Composite Group 1945, pp. 12–13. Campbell 2005, p. 25. Campbell 2005, p. 100. 509th Composite Group 1945...
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    precision-guided munitions. The wing's 509th Operations Group can trace its heritage back to the 509th Composite Group, when during WW2, two of its B-29 Superfortress...
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    and "Fat Man", a plutonium implosion-type nuclear weapon. The 509th Composite Group of the United States Army Air Forces was trained and equipped with...
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    Alberta, at Wendover Army Airfield, Utah. Selected to be part of the 509th Composite Group commanded by Colonel Paul Tibbets, he was named commander of the...
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    for B-17 and B-24 bomber crews. It was the training site of the 509th Composite Group, the B-29 unit that carried out the atomic bombings of Hiroshima...
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    44-27353, Victor number 89), assigned to the 393d Bomb Squadron, 509th Composite Group. The aircraft was named for its bombardier, Captain Kermit Beahan...
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    production Silverplate aircraft were ordered in August 1944 to allow the 509th Composite Group to train with the type of aircraft they would have to fly in combat...
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    outline): 16th BG - B, 331st BG - L, 501st BG - Y, 502nd BG - H The 509th Composite Group, sent to Tinian to drop the atomic bomb, was assigned to the 313th...
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