when it replaced the propeller-driven B-29s with new Boeing B-47E Stratojet swept-wing medium bombers, capable of flying at high subsonic speeds and primarily designed for penetrating the airspace of the Soviet Union. In the early 1960s, the B-47 was considered to be reaching obsolescence, and was being phased out of SAC's strategic arsenal. B-47s began being sent to AMARC at Davis-Monthan in early 1965; was inactivated in March. Space Operations Reactivated as the 380th Space Control Squadron in 2008, assuming the personnel and equipment of Detachment 1, 310th Space Group. Redesignated 380th Electromagnetic Warfare Squadron in December 2022. Lineage Constituted as the 380th Bombardment Squadron (Medium) on 28 January 1942 Activated on 15 March 1942 Redesignated 380th Bombardment Squadron, Medium on 20 August 1943 Inactivated on 12 September 1945 Redesignated 380th Bombardment Squadron, Light on 11 March 1947 Activated in the reserve on 9 August 1947 Inactivated on 27 June 1949 Redesignated 380th Bombardment Squadron, Medium on 15 March 1952 Activated on 28 March 1952 Inactivated on 25 March 1965 Redesignated 380th Space Control Squadron on 1 February 2008 Activated on 7 March 2008 Redesignated 380th Electromagnetic Warfare Squadron on 22 December 2022 Assignments 310th Bombardment Group, 15 March 1942 – 12 September 1945 310th Bombardment Group, 9 August 1947 – 27 June 1949 310th Bombardment Wing (later 310th Strategic Aerospace Wing), 28 March 1952 – 25 March 1965 310th Operations Group, 7 March 2008 710th Operations Group, 1 October 2017 – present Stations Davis-Monthan Field, Arizona, 15 March 1942 Jackson Army Air Base, Mississippi, 15 March 1942 Key Field, Mississippi, 25 April 1942 Columbia Army Air Base, South Carolina, 16 May 1942 Walterboro Army Air Field, South Carolina, 14 August 1942 Greenville Army Air Base, South Carolina, 18 September – 17 October 1942 RAF Hardwick, England, September–November 1942 (air echelon) Mediouna Airfield, French Morocco, 17 November 1942 Telergma Airfield, Algeria, c. 13 December 1942 Berteaux Airfield, Algeria, 1 January 1943 Dar el Koudia Airfield, Tunisia, 6 January 1943 Menzel Temime Airfield, Tunisia, 5 August 1943 (detachment operated from Oudna Airfield, tunisia from 10 October) Philippeville Airfield, Algeria, 10 November 1943 (detachment continued to operate from Oudna Airfield until 19 November) Ghisonaccia Airfield, Corsica, France, 4 January 1944 Fano Airfield, Italy, 7 April 1945 Pomigliano Airfield, Italy, c. 15 August 15 – 12 September 1945 Bedford Army Air Field, Massachusetts, 9 August 1947 T. F. Green Airport, Rhode Island, 4