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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 tables of organization and equipment for all bombardment groups were roughly the same.In 1942, existing bomb groups were expanded from three to four numbered bombardment squadrons; and most bomb groups created during the war retained this structure - B-29 groups were the exception, having only three squadrons.
Prior to the Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor on Sunday, 7 December 1941, the 19th Bombardment Group had 35 B-17s in the Philippines.By 14 December, only 14 remained. Beginning on 17 December, the surviving B-17s based there began to be evacuated south to Australia, and were then sent to Singosari Airfield, Java in the Dutch East Indies (modern Indonesia) on 30 Decemb
11th Aero Squadron posing with its Dayton-Wright DH-4s [note 1]. After training in the United States, the squadron sailed for Europe on the RMS Orduna on 18 December 1917. The 11th saw combat as a day bombardment unit with First Army, 14 September 1918, which was a bloody baptism of fire.
The 13th Aero Squadron was formed at Camp Kelly (later Kelly Field), Texas, on 14 June 1917.. 13th Aero Squadron – SPAD XIII, Souilly Aerodrome, France. 1918. The "Devil’s Own Grim Reapers" as they came to be known was a Pursuit (Fighter) squadron on the Western Front in France during 1918, flying the French SPAD S.XIII.
Although the combat box was initially designed around a group of airplanes, it was expanded to include a formation of three groups flying together as a "combat wing", all of which were based on the same triangular design of a leading bomber (or grouping of bombers) in the center, and two bombers (or groupings) immediately behind in a vee shape, with one at an altitude above and one below the ...
The 393rd Bomb Squadron was activated as a Boeing B-29 Superfortress squadron in early 1944; trained under the Second Air Force.Due to a shortage of B-29s, the squadron was initially equipped with former II Bomber Command Boeing B-17 Flying Fortresses previously used for training heavy bomber replacement personnel as engineering flaws were being worked out of the B-29.
317th Operations Group; 322d Bombardment Squadron; 322d Strategic Reconnaissance Squadron; 323d Expeditionary Operations Group; 343d Wing; 348th Tactical Airlift Squadron; 400th Missile Squadron; 403d Bombardment Squadron; 405th Tactical Missile Squadron; 419th Bombardment Squadron; 423d Bombardment Squadron; 436th Training Squadron; 438th Air ...