The XI Bomber Command is an inactive United States Air Force

United States Air Force

The United States Air Force is the aerial warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the American uniformed services. Initially part of the United States Army, the USAF was formed as a separate branch of the military on September 18, 1947 under the National Security Act of...

 unit. Its last assignment was with Eleventh Air Force

Eleventh Air Force

The Eleventh Air Force is a numbered air force of the United States Air Force Pacific Air Forces . It is headquartered at Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska....

, stationed at Shemya Army Air Base, Alaska (Territory)

Alaska

Alaska is the largest state in the United States by area. It is situated in the northwest extremity of the North American continent, with Canada to the east, the Arctic Ocean to the north, and the Pacific Ocean to the west and south, with Russia further west across the Bering Strait...

. It was inactivated on 31 March 1944

The command controlled primarily medium and light bomber units assigned or deployed to Alaska during the World War II

World War II

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 Aleutian Islands Campaign in conjunction with Eleventh Air Force.

Lineage

• Constituted as XI Bomber Command on 4 March 1943

Activated in Alaska on 19 March 1943

Disbanded in Alaska on 31 March 1944.

Stations

• Adak Army Airfield, Alaska (Territory)
  Alaska
  Alaska is the largest state in the United States by area. It is situated in the northwest extremity of the North American continent, with Canada to the east, the Arctic Ocean to the north, and the Pacific Ocean to the west and south, with Russia further west across the Bering Strait...
  
  , 19 March 1943
• Amchitka Army Airbase, Alaska (Territory)
  Alaska
  Alaska is the largest state in the United States by area. It is situated in the northwest extremity of the North American continent, with Canada to the east, the Arctic Ocean to the north, and the Pacific Ocean to the west and south, with Russia further west across the Bering Strait...
  
  , 24 June 1943
• Adak Army Airfield, Alaska (Territory)
  Alaska
  Alaska is the largest state in the United States by area. It is situated in the northwest extremity of the North American continent, with Canada to the east, the Arctic Ocean to the north, and the Pacific Ocean to the west and south, with Russia further west across the Bering Strait...
  
  , 4 September 1943
• Shemya Army Air Base, Alaska (Territory)
  Alaska
  Alaska is the largest state in the United States by area. It is situated in the northwest extremity of the North American continent, with Canada to the east, the Arctic Ocean to the north, and the Pacific Ocean to the west and south, with Russia further west across the Bering Strait...
  
  , 3–31 March 1944–

Components

• 28th Bombardment Group, Assigned: 19 March 1943 – 31 March 1944
• Numerous units (groups, squadrons) temporarily attached.