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Under Brigadier General John H. Davies, the 313th Bomb Wing (VH) was based at North Field on Tinian Island in the Marianas in the Pacific Theater. Its B-29 bomb groups were the 6th, 9th, 504th, 505th, and 509th, and its service groups were the 72nd, 77th, 358th, and 359th. The wing carried out incendiary, strategic, and atomic bombing missions, including Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and mined Japanese waters solely through the 313th Wing in Operation Starvation.
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