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The 137th Air Refueling Group is an associate unit of the Oklahoma Air National Guard stationed at Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma. If activated for federal service, the group is gained by Air Mobility Command. As of July 2015, the group is in the process of returning to Will Rogers Air National Guard Base and converting from the air refueling to the special operations mission. The group was first activated during World War II as the 404th Fighter Group flying Republic P-47 Thunderbolts. The group served in the European Theater of Operations from May 1944 until the end of the war. It provided close air support to ground troops following Operation Overlord, the Normandy landings. It earned a Distinguished Unit Citation, French Croix de Guerre with Palm and Belgian Fourragere before inactivating in the fall of 1945. The group was redesignated the 137th Fighter Group and allotted to the National Guard in 1946, with squadrons in Oklahoma and Kansas. During the Korean War, it was activated and deployed to France as the 137th Fighter-Bomber Group, where it opened Chaumont Air Base. The unit was replaced in France by a regular unit and returned without personnel or equipment to state control. In 1955, it converted from the fighter bomber to the fighter interceptor mission, and two years later lost its squadrons in Tulsa and in Kansas to new fighter groups. From 1961 until it was inactivated in 1975, the group engaged in strategic and tactical airlift. The group was activated again in 1992 and converted to the air refueling mission in 2008. == Overview == The 137th Operations Group is a unit of the Oklahoma Air National Guard stationed at Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma. If activated to federal service, the group would become part of Air Mobility Command. During World War II, as the 404th Fighter Group flying Republic P-47 Thunderbolts, it provided close air support to troops following Operation Overlord, the Normandy landing until the close of the war. During the Korean War, as the 136th Fighter-Bomber Group it was activated and deployed to France. The unit later engaged fighter operations, strategic and tactical airlift before being redesignated as an air refueling wing. The 137th Operations Group's KC-135 Stratotanker mission is to provide air refueling capability for the United States Air Force and the Air National Guard. It also provides aerial refueling support to Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps, and allied nation aircraft. The KC-135 is capable of transporting litter and ambulatory patients using patient support pallets during aeromedical evacuations. The group is associated with the 507th Operations Group. Under this Air Force Reserve Command - Air National Guard Guard associate organization, the 507th is the host wing owning all 12 KC-135 aircraft. The Oklahoma Air National Guard maintains separate administrative and operational control, but is associated with the 507th, working together to fly and maintain all aircraft. For deployment tasking, both the 507th and 137th function with six primary aircraft assigned. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「137th Operations Group」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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