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Throw your soldiers into positions whence there is no escape, and they will prefer death to flight. If they will face death, there is nothing they may not achieve. -- Sun Tzu |
50th Flying Training Squadron(362 total words in this text)(3228 Reads)  Constituted 50th Pursuit Squadron (Fighter) on 20 Nov 1940. Activated on 15 Jan 1941. Redesignated: 50th Fighter Squadron (Twin Engine) on 15 May 1942; 50th Fighter Squadron, Two Engine, on 28 Feb 1944. Disbanded on 9 Aug 1944. Reconstituted, and redesignated 50th Fighter Squadron (All Weather), on 23 May 1947. Activated in the Reserve on 12 Jun 1947. Inactivated on 27 Jun 1949. Redesignated 50th Flying Training Squadron on 22 Mar 1972. Activated on 1 Jun 1972. Assignments 14th Pursuit (later, 14th Fighter) Group, 15 Jan 1941; 342d Composite Group, 14 Nov 1942; Eighth Air Force, Feb?9 Aug 1944 (attached to 8th [later, 802d] Reconnaissance Group [Prov], Mar?9 Aug 1944). Second Air Force, 12 Jun 1947; 381st Bombardment Group, 30 Sep 1947?27 Jun 1949. 14th Flying Training Wing, 1 Jun 1972; 14th Operations Group, 15 Dec 1991?. Stations amilton Field, CA, 15 Jan 1941; March Field, CA, 10 Jun 1941; Oakland, CA, 8 Feb 1942; Hamilton Field, CA, 9 May?16 Jul 1942; Atcham, England, 18 Aug 1942 (operated in Iceland, 18 Aug?14 Nov 1942); Iceland, 14 Nov 1942; Nuthampstead, England, Feb 1944; Cheddington, England, c. 15 Mar 1944; Watton, England, 12 Apr?9 Aug 1944. Offutt Field (later, AFB), NE, 12 Jun 1947?27 Jun 1949. Columbus AFB, MS, 1 Jun 1972?. Aircraft P?40, 1941?1942; P?38, 1942?1944. AT?6, 1947?1949. T?38, 1972?. Operations Patrols on the west coast, Feb?Jun 1942. Air defense of Iceland, Aug 1942?Feb 1944. Not operational, Feb?Aug 1944. Undergraduate pilot training, 1 Jun 1972?. Honors Service Streamers. None. Campaign Streamers. World War II: Air Offensive, Europe; Air Combat, EAME Theater. Armed Forces Expeditionary Streamers. None. Decorations. Air Force Outstanding Unit Awards: 1 Jan 1974?31 Dec 1974; 1 Apr 1985?31 Mar 1987; 1 Jul 1992?30 Jun 1994. Emblem Azure, a cloud Argent supporting a rattlesnake coiled Or marked Sable, mouth, tongue and eye Gules, winged of the like, garnished of the second; from its open mouth four flight symbols ascending bendwise in bend each per chevron Red and Yellow; all within a diminished bordure of the third. Approved on 1 Apr 1942 (K 2816). |
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