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The 521st Air Mobility Operations Wing (AMOW) is part of Air Mobility Command and is stationed at Ramstein Air Base, Germany. It coordinates logistical air movements into, out of, and through Europe.

The 521st AMOW expedites warfighting and humanitarian efforts by the United States Air Force throughout Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. It provides all command and control, en route maintenance support and air transportation services for air mobility operations in its area of responsibility.^[2] It performs this through aircraft maintenance units, maintenance operations centers, quality assurance, regional training center, fuel cell, aerospace ground equipment, forward supply location, and maintenance recovery teams. It operates air terminal operations centers, providing passenger and fleet services, cargo processing, special handling, ramp services, and load planning.^[2]

The Wing is composed of two groups.^[3] These groups are assigned twelve squadrons and fourteen other geographically separated units.^[2]

History

The wing was originally constituted as the 555th Signal Aircraft Warning Battalion. The unit served as an aircraft warning unit in defense of the continental United States from 1942 to 1943. The battalion moved to England in 1944 where it provided communications support until the day after the Normandy landings when it moved to support the invading forces in France. It moved frequently to support elements of Ninth Air Force, arriving in Belgium in September and Germany in March 1945. It continued it mission during the occupation of Germany from 1945.^[4] At the end of 1945, the battalion was converted to an Air Corps unit, redesignated the 501st Tactical Control Group^[4] and its component companies replaced by Aircraft Control and Warning Squadrons. It provided radar coverage and navigational aid to allied aircraft flying over the U.S. Zone of Occupied Germany in 1946 and 1947. It was inactivated in 1947.

The unit was reactivated as the 501st Aircraft Control and Warning Group in 1949 to replace the 7402d Aircraft Control and Warning Group.^[5] Between 1949 and 1960, it provided tactical control systems, including aircraft control and warning facilities, passive detection devices and guidance units in central Europe.^[4] In 1952, it became a tactical control group again. In 1954, the group moved to Landstuhl Air Base. Starting in 1955, it and the 526th Tactical Control Group provided personnel for a provisional Tactical Control Wing, which it replaced as the 501st Tactical Control Wing in 1957 to provide radar and aircraft control for all of Twelfth Air Force.^[6] It operated the Tactical Control System to exercise operational control of offensive and defensive units in Europe.^[7] In the 1960s, its mission, personnel, and equipment were combined with those of the 86th Fighter-Interceptor Wing, which was redesignated the 86th Air Division (Defense).^[8]

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1. ^{{cite web|title=Colonel Thomas M. Cooper|url=http://www.ramstein.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/867877/colonel-thomas-m-cooper|publisher=521st Air Mobility Operations Wing Public Affairs|accessdate=20 December 2016|date=June 2016}}
2. ^¹²{{Cite web|url=http://www.ramstein.af.mil/About-Us/Fact-Sheets/Display/Article/303606/521st-air-mobility-operations-wing|title=521st Air Mobility Operations Wing|last=|first=|date=20 June 2013|website=|publisher=521st Air Mobility Operations Wing Public Affairs|access-date=20 December 2016}}
3. ^{{Cite news|url=http://www.ramstein.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/305186/wing-activation-of-the-521st-amow|title=Wing activation of the 521st AMOW|last=Saldukas|first=Scott|date=10 September 2008|work=|publisher=435th Air Base Wing Public Affairs|access-date=20 December 2016|via=}}
4. ^¹²³⁴⁵⁶⁷⁸⁹{{Cite web|url=http://www.afhra.af.mil/About-Us/Fact-Sheets/Display/Article/433514/521-air-mobility-operations-wing-amc/|title=521 Air Mobility Operations Wing (AMC)|last=Robertson|first=Patsy|date=11 September 2008|website=|publisher=Air Force Historical Research Agency|access-date=20 December 2016}}
5. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.airforcehistoryindex.org/data/000/440/732.xml|title=Abstract, History of the 501st Aircraft Warning & Control Group, July{{endash}}August 1951|last=|first=|date=|website=|publisher=Air Force History Index|access-date=20 December 2012}}
6. ^¹²³⁴⁵⁶⁷⁸⁹¹⁰{{Cite web|url=http://www.airforcehistoryindex.org/data/000/459/062.xml|title=Abstract, History of the 501st Tactical Control Wing, January{{endash}}June 1957|last=|first=|date=|website=|publisher=Air Force History Index|access-date=20 December 2012}}
7. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.airforcehistoryindex.org/data/000/459/064.xml|title=Abstract, History of the 501st Tactical Control Wing, Calendar Year 1958|last=|first=|date=|website=|publisher=Air Force History Index|access-date=20 December 2012}}
8. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.airforcehistoryindex.org/data/000/465/955.xml|title=Abstract, History of the 86th Air Division, July{{endash}}December 1960|last=|first=|date=|website=|publisher=Air Force History Index|access-date=20 December 2012}}
9. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.afhra.af.mil/About-Us/Fact-Sheets/Display/Article/432398/725-air-mobility-squadron-amc/|title=725 Air Mobility Squadron (AMC)|last=Haulman|first=Daniel|date=26 April 2011|website=|publisher=Air Force Historical Research Agency|access-date=20 December 2016}}
10. ^{{cite web|title=Air Mobility Command|url=http://www.amc.af.mil/About-Us/Fact-Sheets/Display/Article/144014/air-mobility-command/|publisher=Air Mobility Command|accessdate=20 December 2016|date=29 July 2016}}
11. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.airforcehistoryindex.org/data/000/459/066.xml|title=Abstract, History of the 501st Tactical Control Wing, January{{endash}}June 1959|last=|first=|date=|website=|publisher=Air Force History Index|access-date=20 December 2012}}
12. ^{{Cite web|url=http://access.afpc.af.mil/AwardsDMZNet40/Default.aspx|title=Air Force Recognition Programs|last=|first=|date=|website=|publisher=Air Force Personnel Center|access-date=20 December 2012}} (search)

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