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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 ...
A bombardment group or bomb group was a unit of organizational command and control group of the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) during World War II. A bombardment group was normally commanded by a colonel. The table of allowances (TOA) for personnel, aircraft and equipment grew steadily over the course of the war doubling from 35 aircraft ...
96th Bombardment Wing: 337 BS 338th Combat Crew Training Squadron (CCTS) 4018 CCTS Dyess AFB, TX: B-1B 1985-1992 1985-1992 1984-1985 6510th Test Wing: 6519 FTS: Edwards AFB, CA: B-1B 1974-1989 410th Flight Test Squadron: 1989-1992 Redesignated 412th Test Wing: Air National Guard: Wing Shield Squadron Location Variants Service dates Notes 116th ...
A squadron may include two or three subordinate flights. In turn the squadron may be part of a group and then a wing. An Air Force squadron is the basic unit of the service and may carry the lineage and honors of units over a century ago.
13th Bomb Squadron: Grim Reapers [324] Air Force Global Strike Command: Eighth Air Force: 509 BW: 14 June 1917 Whiteman AFB, Missouri: B-2 [325] WM: 20th Bomb Squadron: Buccaneers [326] Air Force Global Strike Command: Eighth Air Force: 2 BW: 26 June 1917 Barksdale AFB, Louisiana: B-52H [327] LA: 23rd Bomb Squadron: Bomber Barons [328] Air ...
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
The 22nd Bombardment Group was detached from 14 November 1949 to 20 February 1950, during which time the wing controlled only the attached fighters of the 1st Fighter Wing. The bomb group was detached again for combat in Korea, 4 July – c. 31 October 1950, and during this period the wing controlled no aircraft.
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.