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26th Information Operations Wing

The 26th Information Operations Wing is an inactive United States Air Force unit. Its last assignment was with United States Air Forces in Europe at Ramstein Air Base, Germany, where it was inactivated on 5 July 2006.

26th Information Operations Wing

1942–1947; 1952–1958; 1965–1991; 1991–2006

Information warfate

Beware, We Snap (World War II) Saber es Poder (Knowledge is Power) (Post War)

The wing was first established during World War II as the 5th Photographic Group with Twelfth and Fifteenth Air Forces in the Mediterranean Theatre of Operations.


The 26th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing operated under the direction of Strategic Air Command from 1952 until 1958. The two units were consolidated in 1965 as the 26th Tactical Reconnaissance Wing and served for the next twenty-six years with United States Air Forces Europe. The wing was inactivated on 31 July 1991.


The wing was activated again as the 26th Intelligence Wing in late 1991, redesignated 26th Information Operations Wing in August 2000, and inactivated in July 2006.

Established as the 5th Photographic Group on 14 July 1942

Maurer, Maurer, ed. (1983) [1961]. (PDF) (reprint ed.). Washington, DC: Office of Air Force History. ISBN 0-912799-02-1. LCCN 61060979.

Air Force Combat Units of World War II

Maurer, Maurer, ed. (1982) [1969]. (PDF) (reprint ed.). Washington, DC: Office of Air Force History. ISBN 0-405-12194-6. LCCN 70605402. OCLC 72556.

Combat Squadrons of the Air Force, World War II

Ravenstein, Charles A. (1984). . Washington, DC: Office of Air Force History. ISBN 0-912799-12-9.

Air Force Combat Wings, Lineage & Honors Histories 1947–1977

. Ten-Ninety Seven Arresting Graphics and Design. Retrieved 12 April 2016.

"History of Zweibrucken (sic) Air Base"

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