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The 27th Fighter Squadron was the top-scoring unit of the 1st Fighter Group in World War II, with 83 of its pilots credited with 176.5 victories. Cold War [ edit ]
The group was reactivated in on 1 November 1991 as the 27th Operations Group and assigned to the 27th Fighter Wing as part of the "Objective Wing" concept adapted by the Air Force. The 27th OG was bestowed the lineage, honors and history of its predecessor 27 Tactical Fighter Group.
Group. 27th Fighter Group (later 27 Fighter-Escort Group, 27 Operations Group, 27th Special Operations Group): 15 August 1947 – 16 June 1952; 1 November 1991 – present [3] Squadron. 27th Special Operations Logistic Readiness Squadron; 27th Air Refueling Squadron: 25 October 1953 – 1 July 1957 (detached 7 May – 17 August 1955)
It was part of the 27th Special Operations Group, the flying component of the 27th Special Operations Wing at Cannon Air Force Base. It was the first to operate the MC-130J Commando II. The 522nd was originally organized in 1940 as the 16th Bombardment Squadron. When the United States entered World War II the squadron was deploying to the ...
The first aerial victory by a 1st Fighter Group pilot (and the first USAAF kill in the European Theater of Operations) occurred 14 August 1942, by a 27th Fighter Squadron pilot, 2nd Lt. Elza E. Shahan, stationed in Iceland, with the downing of an Fw 200C-3 Condor, a credit shared with a P-40C pilot of the 33rd Fighter Squadron.
Re-constituted in the Army Air Service as the 33d Pursuit Squadron on 24 March 1923; [34] World War II service as part of the Iceland Base Command (IBC), Inactivated on 22 June 1945; Re-designated as 33d Fighter-Bomber Squadron on 3 March 1953, and re-activated; Currently: 33d Special Operations Squadron, Cannon AFB, New Mexico [10] 34th Aero ...
Following the end of World War II, Blakeslee continued to serve in the newly created U.S. Air Force. During the Korean War, he served as commander of the 27th Fighter-Escort Group at Taegu Air Base in South Korea and Itazuke Air Base in Japan, and flew several missions in the F-84 Thunderjet from December 1950 to March
350th Fighter Group 345th Fighter Squadron (Bell P-39 Airacobra) 346th Fighter Squadron (P-39 Airacobra) 347th Fighter Squadron (P-39 Airacobra) No. 272 Squadron RAF (Beaufighter X) 414th Night Fighter Squadron (Beaufighter VI) No. 256 Squadron RAF (Mosquito XII and XIII) No. 153 Squadron RAF (Beaufighter VI) No. 458 Squadron RAAF (Wellington XIV)