1973 Ramstein AB, West Germany (now Germany), 14 March 1973 – present Components Commands IX Air Service Command (later European Air Materiel Command): c. 15 August 1945 – 10 November 1947 IX Air Defense Command (1945–46) European Aviation Engineer (Provisional): 22 December 1945 – 20 November 1946 Headquarters, Command, USAFE (Provisional): 12 October 1946 – 1 July 1948 8th Interceptor (later, 8th Fighter; VIII Fighter): 1 February 1942 – 22 February 1944; 16 July 1945 – 20 March 1946 8th Air Force Base Command (later, 8th Air Force Service Command; VIII Air Force Service Command; Air Service Command, USSTAF: Air Technical Service Command in Europe): c. 9 June 1942 – 30 September 1945 XII Tactical Air: 15 November 1945 – 10 November 1947 Task Forces Airlift (Provisional): 29 July-4 November 1948 1st Airlift: 14 October 1948 – 1 October 1949 VIII Air Force Base (later, Base): 18 October 1943 – 1 March 1944; 30 September 1945 – 25 May 1946 Air Forces Third Air Force (later redesignated Third Air Force (Air Forces Europe)): 1 May 1951 – 1 November 2005; 1 December 2006–present Ninth Air Force: June 1944 – 2 December 1945 Twelfth Air Force Attached 12 September-9 November 1942 Assigned 7–31 August 1945; 21 January 1951 – 1 January 1958 Fifteenth Air Force: 22 February 1944 – 15 September 1945 Sixteenth Air Force: 15 April 1966 – 30 April 2008 Seventeenth Air Force: 23 April 1953 – 30 September 1996; 1 October 2008 – 20 April 2012 Air Divisions 2d Air Division: 1 June 1949 – 20 January 1951; 15 April 1955 – 1 April 1962 3d Air Division: 23 August 1948 – 2 January 1949; 21 January-1 May 1951; 25 October 1953 – 1 March 1954. 40: c. 31 October 1945 – 20 December 1946 42d Air Division: 26 July-13 October 1945 65th Air Division: 1 July 1960 – 1 January 1965 86th Air Division: 1 July 1948 – 10 October 1949; 1 January 1958 – 15 November 1959; 1 July-1 September 1963; 20 May 1965 – 5 October 1968. 302d Air Division: 18 July-c. 8 December 1945 306th Air Division: 15 November 1959 – 1 April 1960 322d Air Division: 1 March-1 April 1954 7217th Air Division: 15 November 1959 – 9 September 1970 7499th Air Division: 29 July-5 September 1948 (Berlin Airlift Force) Services European Air Transport Service: 4 September 1945 – 20 December 1947 Groups