Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Designated as the 74th Bombardment Squadron (Medium) at Albrook Field circa 5 March 1940, converting to Douglas B-18 Bolo. On 20 November 1940, the squadron was again re-designated as the 74th Bombardment Squadron (Heavy).
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Squadron emblems of the United States Air Force. This is a list of United States Air Force Bomb Squadrons. It covers all squadrons that were constituted or redesignated as bombardment squadron sometime during their active service. Today Bomb Squadrons are considered to be part of the Combat Air Force (CAF) along with fighter squadrons. Units in this list ...
Activated on 1 October 1933, less Reserve personnel, at Albrook Field, Canal Zone. Consolidated in October 1936 with the 74th Aero Squadron; [34] Served in Panama Canal Zone during World War II as the 74th Bombardment Squadron, equipped with B-24 Liberators. Inactivated 1 November 1946. [10]
The 744th Bombardment Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit. It was last assigned to the 456th Bombardment Wing at Beale Air Force Base, California, and was inactivated on 30 September 1975, when its assets were transferred to another unit.
The 764th Bombardment Squadron was activated at Wendover Field, Utah on 1 July 1943 as one of the four original squadrons of the 461st Bombardment Group. After training with Consolidated B-24 Liberators under Second and Fourth Air Forces in the United States, the squadron departed for the Mediterranean Theater of Operations on New Year's Day of ...
The unit was first activated at Lawson Field, Georgia in February 1942 as the 74th Observation Group, shortly after the United States entered into World War II. [1] However, the group 's first operational squadrons , the 11th , the newly activated 13th , and the 22d Observation Squadrons were not assigned until the following month.
The 754th Bombardment Squadron is a former United States Army Air Forces unit. The squadron was first activated in July 1943. After training with Consolidated B-24 Liberator heavy bombers in the United States, it deployed to the European Theater of Operations, where it participated in the strategic bombing campaign against Germany.
The unit had, around 29 May 1943, traded four of its RLB-30s for 11 B-17Es (which were described as being in "a very run-down condition", although, in fact, two of these B-17Es were officially described as "on loan" to the 74th Bombardment Squadron at the time) but, as the 'new' members of the 3rd Bomb Squadron had been originally trained on B ...