Lineage

Constituted 99th Pursuit Squadron on 19 Mar 1941. Activated on 22 Mar 1941. Redesignated: 99th Fighter Squadron on 15 May 1942; 99th Fighter Squadron, Single Engine, on 28 Feb 1944. Inactivated on 1 Jul 1949. Redesignated 99th Flying Training Squadron on 29 Apr 1988. Activated on 1 Jul 1988. Inactivated on 1 Apr 1993. Activated on 14 May 1993.

Assignments

Army Air Corps, 22 Mar 1941; Air Corps Technical Training Command, 26 Mar 1941; Southeast Air Corps (later, Southeast Army Air Forces) Training Center, 5 Nov 1941 (attached to III Fighter Command, 19 Aug 1942?c. 2 Apr 1943); Twelfth Air Force, 24 Apr 1943; XII Air Support (later, XII Tactical Air) Command, 28 May 1943 (attached to 33d Fighter Group, 29 May 1943; 324th Fighter Group, c. 29 Jun 1943; 33d Fighter Group, 19 Jul 1943; 79th Fighter Group, 16 Oct 1943; 324th Fighter Group, 1 Apr?6 Jun 1944); 332d Fighter Group, 1 May 1944 (attached to 86th Fighter Group, 11?30 Jun 1944); 477th Composite Group, 22 Jun 1945; 332d Fighter Group, 1 Jul 1947?1 Jul 1949.

82d Flying Training Wing, 1 Jun 1988; 82d Operations Group, 15 Dec 1991?1 Apr 1993. 12th Operations Group, 14 May 1993?.

Stations

Chanute Field, IL, 22 Mar 1941; Maxwell Field, AL, 5 Nov 1941; Tuskegee, AL, 10 Nov 1941?2 Apr 1943; Casablanca, French Morocco, 24 Apr 1943; Qued N?ja, French Morocco, 29 Apr 1943; Fardjouna, Tunisia, 7 Jun 1943; Licata, Sicily, 28 Jul 1943; Termini, Sicily, 4 Sep 1943; Barcellona, Sicily, 17 Sep 1943; Foggia, Italy, 17 Oct 1943; Madna, Italy, 22 Nov 1943; Capodichino, Italy, 16 Jan 1944; Cercola, Italy, 2 Apr 1944; Pignataro, Italy, 10 May 1944; Ciampino, Italy, 11 Jun 1944; Orbetello, Italy, 17 Jun 1944; Ramitelli, Italy, 6 Jul 1944; Cattolica, Italy, c. 5 May?Jun 1945; Godman Field, KY, 22 Jun 1945; Lockbourne AAB (later, AFB), OH, 13 Mar 1946?1 Jul 1949. Williams AFB, AZ, 1 Jun 1988?1 Apr 1993. Randolph AFB, TX, 14 May 1993?.

Aircraft

P?40, 1943?1944; P?39, 1944; P?51, 1944?1945; P?47, 1944, 1945?1949. T?38, 1988?1993.

Operations

Organized as the first Black flying unit in the Air Corps. Combat in MTO and ETO, 2 Jun 1943?30 Apr 1945. Undergraduate pilot training, 1988?1993.

Honors

Service Streamers. World War II American Theater.

Campaign Streamers. World War II: Sicily; Naples-Foggia; Anzio; Rome-Arno; Southern France; North Apennines; Po Valley; Air Offensive, Europe; Normandy; Northern France; Rhineland; Central Europe; Air Combat, EAME Theater.

Armed Forces Expeditionary Streamers. None.

Decorations. Distinguished Unit Citations: Sicily, [Jun?Jul] 1943; Cassino, 12?14 May 1944; Germany, 24 Mar 1945.

Emblem

On a Blue disc, border of nine Golden Orange segments fimbriated of the field, issuing out of sinister chief toward dexter base a Golden Orange winged panther in striking position, proper, between four Yellow stars in dexter chief and five like stars in sinister base. Approved on 24 Jun 1944 (K 2823).