Station Complement, Barksdale Fld, 1 March 1935 – 26 August 1936 Base HQ and 6th Air Base Sq GHQ, 26 August 1936 – 13 June 1943 335th Bombardment Group (Medium) 17 July 1942 – 1 May 1944 331st AAF Base Unit, 1 May 1944 – 1 December 1945 2621st AAF Base Unit, 1 December 1945 – 26 September 1947 2621st AF Base Unit, 26 September 1947 – 26 August 1948 3500th Pilot Training Wg, 26 August 1948 – 14 October 1949 47th Bombardment Wing, 19 November 1948 – 2 October 1949 91st Strategic Reconnaissance Wg, 14 October 1949 – 16 June 1952 Second Air Force, 1 November 1949 – 1 January 1975 301st Bombardment Wing, 7 November 1949 – 15 April 1958 376th Bombardment Wing, 10 October 1951 – 30 November 1957 301st Air Refueling Wing, 18 March 1953 – 15 April 1958 4238th Strategic Wing, 1 March 1958 – 1 April 1963 1st Combat Evaluation Group, 1 August 1961 – 1990 917th Wing, 28 December 1962 – 8 January 2011 307th Bomb Wing, 8 January 2011 – present 2nd Bombardment Wing, 1 April 1963 – present Eighth Air Force, 1 January 1975 – present Air Force Cyber Command (Provisional), 1 October 2007 – 6 October 2008 See also List of United States Air Force installations Louisiana World War II Army Airfields National Register of Historic Places listings in Bossier Parish, Louisiana References Other sources Maurer, Maurer. Air Force Combat Units of World War II. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office 1961 (republished 1983, Office of Air Force History, ). Ravenstein, Charles A. Air Force Combat Wings Lineage and Honors Histories 1947–1977. Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama: Office of Air Force History 1984. . Mueller, Robert, Air Force Bases Volume I, Active Air Force Bases Within the United States of America on 17 September 1982, Office of Air Force History, 1989 Lloyd, Alwyn T. (2000), A Cold War Legacy, A Tribute to Strategic Air Command, 1946–1992, Pictorial Histories Publications Rogers, Brian (2005). United States Air Force Unit Designations Since 1978. Hinkley, England: Midland Publications. . Turner Publishing Company (1997), Strategic Air Command: The Story of the Strategic Air Command and Its People. Turner Publishing Company USAAS-USAAC-USAAF-USAF Aircraft Serial Numbers—1908 to present ArmyAirForces.com Strategic-Air-Command.com External links Footage of Barksdale AFB on Alert During the Cuban Missile Crisis Installations of the United States Air Force in Louisiana Buildings and structures in Bossier