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500th Fighter Bomber Squadron

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Active
  
1942-1944

Type
  
Fighter-Bomber

Country
  
United States

Engagements
  
World War II

500th Fighter-Bomber Squadron

Branch
  
United States Army Air Forces

The 500th Fighter-Bomber Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit. Its last assignment was with the 85th Fighter-Bomber Group stationed at Harris Neck Army Airfield, Georgia. It was inactivated on 1 May 1944.

Contents

Lineage

  • Constituted 306th Bombardment Squadron (Light) on 13 January 1942
    • Activated on 10 February 1942 Redesignated: 306th Bombardment Squadron (Dive) on 27 July 1942 Redesignated: 500th Fighter-Bomber Squadron on 10 August 1943 Disbanded on 1 May 1944.

    Assignments

  • 85th Bombardment (later Fighter-Bomber) Group, 10 February 1942 – 1 May 1944.

    • Stations

  • Savannah AAB, Georgia, 10 February 1942
  • Bowman Field, Kentucky, c. 16 February 1942
  • Hunter Field, Georgia, 8 June 1942
  • Waycross AAF, Georgia, 15 August 1942
  • Gillespie Field, Nashville, Tennessee, 3 October 1942
  • Blythe AAB, California, 2 November 1942
  • Rice AAF, California, c. 11 December 1942
  • Harding AAF, Louisiana, c. 9 April 1943
  • Waycross AAF, Georgia, 23 August 1943
  • Harris Neck AAF, Georgia, 11 December 1943 – 1 May 1944

    • Aircraft

  • V-72 Vengeance, 1942
  • A-24 Dauntless, 1942–1943
  • North American A-36, 1943
  • P-39 Airacobra, 1943–1944
  • P-40 Warhawk, 1944

    • Operations history

    Participated in air-ground maneuvers, October 1942— April 1943, and afterward served as a replacement training unit until 1 May 1944

    References

    500th Fighter-Bomber Squadron Wikipedia
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