Bunker Hill Air Force
Base (BHAFB)
22 June 1954 - 11 May
1968
Location: Indiana (North
Central)
With the outbreak of the
Korean War, the Air Force needed a base where it could conduct nationwide
and worldwide operations. Again, Bunker Hill become the logical choice.
Negotiations were begun with the Navy (who still had the title to the site)
to reopen the base as Bunker Hill Air Force Base. To simplify the
legal aspects of construction, it was decided that the Navy would let all
major contracts and supervise construction of the nearly $25 million in
new facilities. In 1982, the Air Force gained the title to the base from
the Navy. |
Sign By Main Gate
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Courtesy of Edward "Nick"
Garrett - 1957.
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| The base was reopened as
a Tactical Air Command Base. The formal opening was June 22, 1954. That
year, the 4433rd Air Base Squadron and the 323rd Fighter-Bomber Wing called
Bunker Hill Air Force Base home. In 1955, the Air Defense Command's 319th
Fighter Interceptor Squadron joined the forces at the base. The Strategic
Air Command arrived on the scene in the mid-fifties and SAC's 8th Air Force
assumed jurisdiction of the base on September 1, 1957. |
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| In May 1959, the 305th Bomb
Group and its B-47s arrived. Later that same year, the first KC-135 Stratotankers
were assigned to the unit. Two years later, B-58s began replacing the B-47s.
On 11 May 1968, after 26 years of bearing the name, Bunker Hill, the base
was renamed... |
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