Lineage

Constituted 6th Fighter Squadron, Commando, on 22 Sep 1944. Activated on 30 Sep 1944. Inactivated on 3 Nov 1945. Disbanded on 8 Oct 1948. Reconstituted, and activated, on 18 Apr 1962. Organized on 27 Apr 1962. Redesignated: 6th Air Commando Squadron, Fighter, on 15 Jun 1966; 6th Special Operations Squadron on 15 Jul 1968. Inactivated on 15 Nov 1969. Activated on 8 Jan 1970. Redesignated 6th Special Operations Training Squadron on 31 Aug 1972. Inactivated on 15 Sep 1974. Redesignated 6th Special Operations Flight on 25 Mar 1994. Activated on 1 Apr 1994. Redesignated 6th Special Operations Squadron on 1 Oct 1994.

Assignments

1st Air Commando Group, 30 Sep 1944?3 Nov 1945 (attached to First Provisional Fighter Group, 7 Feb?c. 8 May 1945; 2d Air Commando Group, 23 May?20 Jun 1945). Tactical Air Command, 18 Apr 1962; 1st Air Commando Group (later, 1st Air Commando Wing), 27 Apr 1962; 14th Air Commando Wing, 29 Feb 1968; 633d Special Operations Wing, 15 Jul 1968?15 Nov 1969. 4410th Combat Crew Training Wing (later, 4410th Special Operations Training Group), 8 Jan 1970; 1st Special Operations Wing, 31 Jul 1973; 23d Tactical Fighter Wing, 1 Jan?15 Sep 1974. 16th Operations Group, 1 Apr 1994?.

Stations

Asansol, India, 30 Sep 1944 (detachments operated from Cox?s Bazar, India, 15?21 Oct 1944, 2?8 Nov 1944; and 11?18 Jan 1945, and from Fenny, India, 1?24 Dec 1944); Hay, India, 7 Feb 1945; Asansol, India, 9 May 1945; Kalaikunda, India, 23 May 1945; Asansol, India, 22 Jun?6 Oct 1945; Camp Kilmer, NJ, 1?3 Nov 1945. Eglin Air Force Auxiliary Airfield No. 9 (Hurlburt Field), FL, 27 Apr 1962; England AFB, LA, 15 Jan 1966?17 Feb 1968; Pleiku AB, South Vietnam, 29 Feb 1968?15 Nov 1969 (detachment operated from Da Nang AB, South Vietnam, 1 Apr 1968?1 Sep 1969). England AFB, LA, 8 Jan 1970?15 Sep 1974. Hurlburt Fld, FL, 1 Apr 1994?.

Aircraft

P?47, 1944?1945; P?51, 1945. B/RB?26 and L?28 (later, U?10), 1962?1963; T?28, 1962?1967; A?1, 1963, 1966; 1967?1969. A?37, 1970?1974.

Operations

Combat in CBI, 17 Oct 1944?8 May 1945. Combat in Southeast Asia, 1 Mar 1968?15 Nov 1969. Replacement training for US and allied pilots in A?37 aircraft, Jan 1970?Sep 1974.

Honors

Service Streamers. None.

Campaign Streamers. World War II: India-Burma; Central Burma. Vietnam: Vietnam Air Offensive Phase II; Vietnam Air Offensive Phase III; Vietnam Air/Ground; Vietnam Air Offensive Phase IV; TET 69/Counteroffensive; Vietnam Summer-Fall 1969; Vietnam Winter-Spring 1970.

Armed Forces Expeditionary Streamers. None.

Decorations. Presidential Unit Citation: Vietnam, 1 Jun?15 Nov 1969. Air Force Outstanding Unit Awards with the Combat "V" Device: 1 Feb?20 Jun 1968; 15 Jul 1968?31 May 1969. Air Force Outstanding Unit Awards: Jul 1963?Jun 1965; 15 Sep 1970?31 Dec 1971. Republic of Vietnam Gallantry Cross with Palm: 1 Jan 1968?15 Nov 1969.

Emblem

On a Red disc within a narrow Gold border a White annulet and overall a Blue pale fimbriated Gold bearing in chief a Gold six pointed star highlighted White, between two Gold wings erect, that are issuant from the grip of a White dagger shaded Gray in pale with point to base between two Gold lightning bolts in pile. Approved on 22 March 1966 (K 18600).