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5th Air Force, USAAF Patch (World War II) Date: 25 January 2013, 14:13:42: ... 108th Operations Group; 110th Bomb Squadron; 13th Bomb Squadron; 14th Bombardment Squadron;
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 ...
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 ...
(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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
5th Bomb Group (13th AF) (October 1944 – 5 March 1945) 38th Bombardment Group (15 October 1944 – 29 January 1945) 310th Bombardment Wing (18 September – 14 November 1944) 307th Bombardment Group (13th AF) (18 October 1944 – September 1945) 8th Fighter Group (19 September 20 December 1944) 35th Fighter Group (27 September 1944 – 20 ...