Service of Boeing B-52E Stratofortress

100 B-52Es were accepted by the USAF between October 1957 and June 1958. The first B-52Es entered service with SAC in December of 1957.

The B-52E served with the following units:

• 6th Bombardment Wing, Walker AFB, New Mexico - redesignated 6 SAW 5/1/62
  
  
  • 24th Bombardment Squadron 1957-1967 - inactivated 12/5/67
    
    
  • 39th Bombardment Squadron 1957-1963 - Inactivated 9/15/63
    
    
  • 40th Bombardment Squadron 1957-1967 - inactivated 1/25/67
    
    
  • 4129th CCTS 1959-1963 - inactivated 9/15/63
  
  
  
• 11th Bombardment Wing, Altus AFB, Oklahoma - Redesignated 11 SAW 4/1/63
  
  
  • 26th Bombardment Squadron 1958-1968 - inactivated 7/2/68
    
    
  • 42nd Bombardment Squadron 1958-1960--reassigned to 4043 SW 6/1/60
  
  
  
• 17th Bombardment Wing, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio
  
  
  • 34th Bombardment Squadron 1963-1968--replaced 42 BS/4043 SW
  
  
  
• 70th Bombardment Wing, Clinton-Sherman AFB, Oklahoma
  
  
  • 6th Bombardment Squadron 1963-1968 -- replaced 98 BS/4123 SW
  
  
  
• 93rd Bombardment Wing, Castle AFB, California
  
  
  • 328th Bombardment Squadron 1957-58 and 1967-70
    
    
  • 329th Bombardment Squadron 1957-58 and 1967-70
    
    
  • 330th Bombardment Squadron 1957-58
  
  
  
• 96th Strategic Air Wing, Dyess AFB, Texas
  
  
  • 337 Bombardment Squadron 1963-70
  
  
  
• 4043 Strategic Wing, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio -- Inactivated 2/1/63
  
  
  • 42nd Bombardment Squadron 1960-63 --assets to 34 BS/17 BW
  
  
  
• 4123 Strategic Wing, Clinton-Sherman AFB, Oklahoma -- Inactivated 2/1/63
  
  
  • 98 Bombardment Squadron 1959-63 -- assets to 6 BS/70 BW

The B-52E never served in the Southeast Asia war. A few worn-out B-52Es were withdrawn from service in 1967, but the majority of the B-52Es were phased out of SAC service and consigned to storage during 1969/70.

Sources:

1. American Combat Planes, Third Enlarged Edition, Ray Wagner, Doubleday, 1982.
   
   
2. Post World War II Bombers, Marcelle Size Knaack, Office of Air Force History, 1988.
   
   
3. Boeing Aircraft Since 1916, Peter M. Bowers, Naval Institute Press, 1989.
   
   
4. United States Military Aircraft Since 1909, Gordon Swanborough and Peter M. Bowers, Smithsonian, 1989.
   
   
5. Boeing B-52--A Documentary History, Walter Boyne, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1981.
   
   
6. Boeing's Cold War Warrior--B-52 Stratofortress, Robert F. Dorr and Lindsay Peacock, Osprey Aerospace, 1995.