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The 444th was assigned to the first B-29 Superfortress wing, the 58th Bombardment Wing. After a period of organization at Davis-Monthan the squadron moved to Great Bend Army Air Field , Kansas. for training, initially flying Boeing B-17 Flying Fortresses , Consolidated B-24 Liberators and Martin B-26 Marauders . [ 4 ]
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 ...
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 .
5th Maintenance Group, 5th Bomb Wing: Minot Air Force Base [4] 6th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron: 6th Maintenance Group, 6th Air Mobility Wing: MacDill Air Force Base [5] 7th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron: Death From Above: 7th Maintenance Group, 7th Bomb Wing: Dyess Air Force Base [6] 9th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron: 9th Maintenance Group ...
The 7th was selected as one of the "Test Wings" to evaluate the new organization T/O and on 17 November 1947 the 7th Bombardment Wing was established. The test was successful and the wing was made permanent on 1 August 1948. [9] As part of the new organization both the 7th and 11th Bombardment Groups became its operational component.
The 7th Bombardment Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit. It was last assigned to the 34th Bombardment Group at Sioux Falls Army Air Field , South Dakota, where it was inactivated on 28 August 1945.
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.