High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 11th Wing (11 WG) is a United States Air Force unit assigned to the Air Force District of Washington. It is stationed at Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland. It is the host unit at Andrews. The 11 WG is one of the largest and most ceremonial wings in the Air Force. It is the single manager for all Air Force activities supporting Headquarters Air Force and other Air Force units in the National Capital Region as well as 108 countries throughout the world. As a direct reporting unit to the Vice Chief of Staff of the Air Force, it combines resources from the Pentagon and Bolling AFB. The unit was founded as the 11 Bombardment Group (Medium), activated in 1940. Assigned to the Thirteenth Air Force, the group fought in combat in the South Pacific as a heavy bomb group equipped with B-17 Flying Fortresses and later B-24 Liberators. The 11th BG earned a Distinguished Unit Citation for its actions in the South Pacific, 31 July-30 November 1942. It participated in the Central Pacific; Air Offensive, Japan; Guadalcanal; Northern Solomons; Eastern Mandates; Western Pacific; Ryukyus and the China Offensive before its inactivation in 1948.

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