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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 ...
The Tenth's 7th Bombardment Group used a checkerboard pattern in either black-and-white or black-and-yellow on the rudder or part of the tail fin to identify its squadrons. The 308th Bombardment Group of the Fourteenth Air Force used colored or striped rudders.
25th Bombardment Group, 1 February 1940 (attached to VI Bomber Command after 13 December 1943) VI Bomber Command, 17 December 1943; Second Air Force, c. 9 May – 17 June 1944; 341st Bombardment Group, 18 June 1947 – 27 June 1949; 341st Bombardment Wing, 1 September 1955 – 25 June 1961; Strategic Air Command, 2 August 1961 (not organized)
With the arrival of the B-36s, the wing was redesignated as the 7th Bombardment Wing, Heavy on 1 August. B-36s continued to arrive throughout 1948, with the last B-29 being transferred on 6 December to the 97th Bomb Group at Biggs AFB .
Wing Date First Activated Base Aircraft Tail Code 9th Bomb Squadron: Bats [321] Air Force Global Strike Command: Eighth Air Force: 7 BW: 14 June 1917 Dyess AFB, Texas: B-1B [322] DY: 11th Bomb Squadron: Jiggs Squadron [citation needed] Air Force Global Strike Command: Eighth Air Force: 2 BW: 26 June 1917 Barksdale AFB, Louisiana: B-52H [323] LA ...
The United States Air Force's 10th Intelligence Support Squadron is an intelligence unit located at Langley Air Force Base, Virginia.. The squadron was first activated during World War II as the 678th Bombardment Squadron, a United States Army Air Forces combat organization.
Re-designated as the 9th Bombardment Squadron 24 March 1923; Organized by June 1929 in the Regular Army Reserve at Kelly Field, Texas. Activated on 1 April 1931, less Reserve personnel. Re-designated as the 9th Bombardment Squadron (Heavy) on 6 December 1939. [31] Currently: 9th Bomb Squadron, Dyess AFB, Texas [32] 10th Aero Squadron: 31 May 1917
When the wing base organization was made permanent in 1948, the wing was redesignated as the 7th Bombardment Wing, Heavy on 1 August. [2] In November 1948, B-36B aircraft began to join the B-36As. On 7 December one of the new B-36Bs flew a nonstop simulated bombing mission to Hawaii, dropping a 10,000 lb simulated bombload in the ocean.