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}}The VII Bomber Command is an inactive United States Air Force unit. Its last assignment was with Seventh Air Force, based on Okinawa. It was inactivated on 31 March 1946. HistoryLineage- Constituted as VII Bomber Command on 23 January 1942
Activated on 29 January 1942. Inactivated on 31 March 1946 Disbanded on 8 October 1948 Commanding Generals- BriGen Willis H. Hale (January 29, 1942 – June 19, 1942)
- Col Albert E. Hegenberger (June 20, 1942 – June 25, 1942) - Acting Commander
- BriGen William E. Lynd (June 25, 1942 – November 1942)
- BriGen LaVerne G. Saunders (January 8, 1943 – January 1943)
- BriGen Truman H. Landon (January 1943 – December 10, 1944)
- BriGen Lawrence J. Carr (December 11, 1944 – October 1945)
Assignments- Hawaiian Air Force 23 January 1942 – 31 March 1946
Redesignated: 7 Air Force on 5 February 1942 Redesignated: Seventh Air Force on 18 September 1942 Stations- Hickam Field, Hawaii (Territory), 29 January 1942
- Funafuti Airfield, Nanumea, Gilbert Islands, November 1943
- Tarawa, Gilbert Islands
Hawkins Field, January 1944 Bairiki (Mullinix) Airfield, January–March 1944 - Kwajalein Airfield, Kwajalein, Marshall Islands, March 1944
- East Field, Saipan, Mariana Islands, August 1944
- Yontan Airfield, Okinawa, July 1945 – March 1946.
Units assigned- 5th Bombardment Group: 29 January 1942 – 4 January 1943
- 11th Bombardment Group: 29 January 1942 – 5 January 1943; 8 April 1943 – 23 November 1945
- 30th Bombardment Group: 17 October 1943 – 17 March 1945
- 41st Bombardment Group: 16 October 1943 – 27 January 1945
- 305th Fighter Control Squadron: 01 December 1945 - 31 December 1945
- 307th Bombardment Group: 1 November 1942– February 1943
- 494th Bombardment Group: 15 June 1944 – 8 December 1945
Operational historyEngaged in patrol operations from Hawaii until late in 1943. Afterward, served in combat in the Central and Western Pacific References{{Air Force Historical Research Agency}}- {{cite book|editor=Maurer, Maurer|title=Air Force Combat Units of World War II|origyear= 1961|url= http://media.defense.gov/2010/Sep/21/2001330256/-1/-1/0/AFD-100921-044.pdf |edition=reprint|year=1983|publisher=Office of Air Force History|location=Washington, DC|isbn=0-912799-02-1|lccn=61060979|pages=}}
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