339th Bombardment Squadron

History

Established as a B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber squadron; trained under Second Air Force. Deployed to European Theater of Operations (ETO), assigned to VIII Bomber Command in England, Flew combat missions over Nazi Germany and Occupied Europe until the German capitulation in May 1945.

Activated as a reserve B-29 Superfortress squadron, 1947. Not equipped or manned; inactivated due to budget reductions, 1949.

Reactivated in 1953 as a Strategic Air Command B-47 Stratojet squadron. Performed global deployments and training until inactivated in 1963. With the phaseout of the B-47 the training aircraft sent to storage at Davis-Monthan and the squadron was inactivated.

Lineage

Constituted 339th Bombardment Squadron (Heavy) on 28 January 1942

Activated on 15 July 1942 Inactivated on 19 December 1945

Redesignated 339th Bombardment Squadron (Very Heavy) on 13 May 1947

Activated in the reserve on 29 May 1947 Inactivated on 27 June 1949

Redesignated 339th Bombardment Squadron (Medium) on 6 November 1953

Activated on 18 November 1953. Inactivated on 15 March 1963.

Assignments

96th Bombardment Group, 15 July 1942 – 15 December 1945

96th Bombardment Group, 29 May 1947

384th Bombardment Group, 8 October 1947 – 27 June 1949

96th Bombardment (later Strategic Aerospace) Wing, 18 November 1953 – 15 March 1963

Aircraft

B-17 Flying Fortress, 1943–1945

B-47 Stratojet, 1955–1963