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(Reassigned from Seventh Air Force, February 1943) 868th Bombardment Squadron (Unattached) (1944–45) (B-24) Formerly 349th Bomb Squadron, 5th Bomb Group. The planes flown by the 868th were often called SB-24s and sometimes LABs (Low Altitude Bomber). They were equipped with SRC-717-B search and navigation radar.
Groups. 5th Bombardment Group, 13 January 1943 – 15 December 1945 [3]; 11th Bombardment Group, 9 November 1943 – 15 March 1946; 42d Bombardment Group, 22 April 1943 – 25 December 1945 (attached to 308th Bombardment Wing, c. 24 August 1944; 310th Bombardment Wing, 3 September 1944; Thirteenth Air Task Force, c. 15 September 1944; XIII Fighter Command, 1 October 1944; XIII Bomber Command ...
13th Air Expeditionary Task Force, c. January 2007 – 13 February 2007 [20] [21] Attached to Thirteenth Air Force, 10 June 2007-c. June 2007 [22] 13th Air Expeditionary Task Force, 18 August 2007 – 26 August 2007 [23] Attached to Thirteenth Air Force, 11 January 2008 – 31 March 2008 [24] [25]
In December 2004, for the fourth time in less than four years, the B-1s answered the call to war with all Reaper crew members and most enlisted support staff deployed as members of the 40th Air Expeditionary Group." [1] "In June 2005, the Air Force announced the 13th Bomb Squadron would replace the 325th Bomb Squadron at Whiteman Air Force Base ...
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 ...
Its 5th Operations Group is a successor organization of the 5th Group (Composite), one of the 15 original combat air groups formed by the Army before World War II. On 7 December 1941, the 5th Bombardment Group suffered the loss of B-17 Flying Fortress and B-18 Bolo bombers when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor , but it sent two B-17s to ...
The 5th Bombardment Group used the same black geometric symbols as the Twentieth Air Force, a different symbol for each squadron, placed in the upper third of the tail fin. The 307th Bombardment Group created a group symbol, a large blue circle containing a stylized "LR" (for "Long Rangers", the group nickname) in gold, and placed it on all ...
Bombardment groups of the United States Army Air Forces Military units and formations established in 1940 This page was last edited on 12 October 2018, at 20:38 (UTC) .