9 Air Division; 19 Bombardment Wing) 24 July 1942 – 20 November 1945; 22 December 1948 – 1 February 1949. 21 Air: 22 December 1948 – 1 February 1949. 42d Air Division: 1 July – 1 October 1957 49th Air Division: 22 December 1948 – 1 February 1949 69th Air Division: 23 February – 27 June 1949 302d Air Division: 22 December 1948 – 1 February 1949 833d Air Division: 1 October 1964 – 24 December 1969 834d Air Division: 25 September – 1 October 1957; 1 July 1964 – 15 October 1966 836th Air Division: 8 October 1957 – 1 July 1961; 1 July 1962 – 30 June 1971 837th Air Division: 8 February 1958 – 1 February 1963 838th Air Division: 25 September – 11 December 1957 839th Air Division: 8 October 1957 – 1 July 1963; 9 November 1964 – 1 December 1974 840th Air Division: 1 October 1964 – 24 December 1969 Groups 46th Bombardment Group: 1 September 1941 – 18 April 1942 Known Inactive Air Expeditionary units See Organization of United States Air Force Units in the Gulf War for units and deployment of CENTAF forces during Operation Desert Shield and Operation Desert Storm 128th Air Expeditionary Group Flights at several bases in AFCENT AOR 368th Expeditionary Air Support Operations Group Camp Victory, Baghdad, Iraq 370th Air Expeditionary Advisory Group Sather AB, Iraq 376th Air Expeditionary Wing Transit Center at Manas, Kyrgyzstan 398th Air Expeditionary Group Flights at several bases in AFCENT AOR 384th Air Expeditionary Wing Shaikh Isa Air Base, Bahrain 406th Air Expeditionary Wing RAFO Thumrait, Oman 410th Air Expeditionary Wing H-5 Air Base, Jordan Shaheed Mwaffaq AB, Jordan 416th Air Expeditionary Group Karshi-Khanabad AB, Uzbekistan 447th Air Expeditionary Group Sather AB, Iraq 506th Air Expeditionary Group Kirkuk AB, Iraq 732d Air Expeditionary Group Balad AB, Iraq 4417th Air Expeditionary Force Shaheed Mwaffaq AB, Jordan Service and campaign streamers War in Southwest Asia Defense of Saudi Arabia (Desert Shield) 1990-1991 Liberation of Kuwait (Desert Storm) 1991 Awards List of commanders AFCENT Commanders 9 AF/AFCENT Commanders References Notes Explanatory notes Citations Bibliography Further reading Bozung, Jack H. (ed). The 9th Sees France and England. Los Angeles, California: AAF Publications Company, 1947. Coles, Harry C. Ninth Air Force Participation in the Western Desert Campaign to January 1943 (USAAF Historical Study, No. 30). Air Force Historical Research Agency, 1945. Coles, Harry C. Participation of the Ninth