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Country
  
United States

Part of
  
Air Mobility Command

Role
  
Air Refueling

Nickname(s)
  
Squarepatchers

384th Air Refueling Squadron

Active
  
1943–1946; 1955–1966; 1973–2016

Branch
  
United States Air Force

The 384th Air Refueling Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit It was last active as part of the 22d Air Refueling Wing at McConnell Air Force Base, Kansas, where it operated the Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker aircraft conducting air refueling missions.

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World War II

The squadron flew combat missions in the European Theater of Operations from, 23 March 1944 – 20 April 1945.

Air refueling operations

It conducted aerial refueling for Strategic Air Command bombers in North Atlantic area from, 1955–1965 and has flown worldwide aerial refueling sorties since 1973 including support to operations in Panama from, 18–20 December 1989 and Southwest Asia from, August 1990–March 1991.

Operations

  • World War II
  • Operation Just Cause
  • Operation Desert Storm
  • Operation Iraqi Freedom
  • Operation Enduring Freedom
  • Operation New Dawn
  • Operation Odyssey Dawn
  • Operation Unified Protector
  • Lineage

    584th Bombardment Squadron
  • Constituted as the 584th Bombardment Squadron (Medium) on 15 February 1943
  • Activated on 5 March 1943
  • Redesignated 584th Bombardment Squadron, Medium on 9 October 1944
  • Redesignated 584th Bombardment Squadron, Light on 3 December 1945
  • Inactivated on 31 Mar 1946
  • Consolidated (19 Sep 1985) with 384th Air Refueling Squadron, Medium, which was
  • 384th Air Refueling Squadron
  • Constituted on 3 March 1955
  • Activated on 1 April 1955
  • Discontinued, and inactivated on 25 June 1966
  • Redesignated 384th Air Refueling Squadron, Heavy, on 19 June 1973
  • Activated on 30 September 1973
  • Redesignated 384th Air Refueling Squadron on 1 September 1991
  • Inactivated 30 September 2016

    Assignments

  • 394th Bombardment Group (1943–1946)
  • 4050th Air Refueling Wing (1955–1963) (attached to Eighth Air Force 27 April - 27 June 1956, 21 May - 25 June 1957)
  • 499th Air Refueling Wing (1963–1966)
  • 384th Bombardment Wing (1973– 30 September 1991
  • 384th Operations Group 30 September 1991
  • 19th Operations Group (1992
  • 22d Operations Group 1994-30 September 2016
  • Stations

  • MacDill Field, Florida (1943)
  • Ardmore Army Air Field, Oklahoma (1943)
  • Atterbury Army Air Field, Indiana (1943)
  • Kellogg Field, Michigan (1943–1944)
  • RAF Boreham, England (1944)
  • RAF Holmsley South, England (1944)
  • Tour-en-Bassin, France (1944)
  • Bricy, France (1944)
  • Cambrai-Niergnies, France (1944–1945)
  • Venlo, Netherlands (1945)
  • Kitzingen, Germany (1945–1946)
  • Bolling Field, Washington, DC (1946)
  • Westover Air Force Base, Massachusetts (1955–1966)
  • McConnell Air Force Base, Kansas (1973 – 30 September 2016
  • Aircraft

  • Martin B-26 Marauder (1943–1945)
  • Douglas A-26 Invader (1945–1946)
  • Boeing KC-97 Stratotanker (1955–1965)
  • Boeing KC-135A Stratotanker (1973–1977)
  • Boeing KC-135R/T Stratotanker (1978–2016)
  • References

    384th Air Refueling Squadron Wikipedia