The United States Air Force 5th Bomb Wing (5 BW) is a B-52 Stratofortress unit based at Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota. The wing is one of only two B-52 wings in the US Air Force (the other being the 2d Bomb Wing at Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana. The wing's 5th Operations Group is a successor organization of the 5th Group (Composite), one of the 15 original combat air groups formed by the Army before World War II.