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507th Bombardment Squadron

Field	Value
unit_name	507th Bombardment Squadron
image	Boeing B-29 Superfortress at Davis-Monthan AFB.jpg
image_size	300
caption	B-29 Superfortress as flown by the squadron
dates	1944; 1944–1946
country
branch
role	Bombardment
battles	Pacific Theater
identification_symbol	[[File:507th Bombardment Squadron - Emblem.png	165px]]
identification_symbol_label	507th Bombardment Squadron emblem

The 507th Bombardment Squadron is a former unit of the United States Army Air Forces. It was briefly activated in the spring of 1944, then activated again in the summer as a Boeing B-29 Superfortress unit. It trained for active service during World War II, but moved to its combat station of Kadena Airfield, Okinawa too late in the war to undertake combat missions. It remained on the island until it was inactivated on 28 May 1946.

History

The 507th Bombardment Squadron was activated at Dalhart Army Air Field, Texas on 11 March 1944 as one of the original four squadrons of the 504th Bombardment Group. Although the squadron was intended to be a Boeing B-29 Superfortress unit, at the time it was activated, B-29 groups were being reorganized to have three, rather than four, squadrons assigned. The squadron was inactivated on 10 May as a result of this organizational change without being manned or equipped.

The squadron was again activated at Dalhart on 7 July 1944, but this time was assigned to the 333d Bombardment Group. The 333d Group was a former heavy bomber training unit that had been inactivated in the spring of 1944 in a general Army Air Forces reorganization of its training and support units. It was reactivated in July as a B-29 group. The squadron trained with Superfortresses until June 1945, when it departed for the Pacific to become an element of Eighth Air Force, which was organizing on Okinawa as a second very heavy bomber air force in the Pacific. However, the squadron did not arrive at its combat station, Kadena Airfield, until it was too late to participate in combat. The squadron flew show-of-force missions and its aircraft helped evacuate prisoners of war from Japan to airfields in the Philippines. The unit was inactivated on 28 May 1946.

Lineage

Constituted as the 507th Bombardment Squadron, Very Heavy on 28 February 1944 : Activated on 11 March 1944 : Inactivated on 10 May 1944 : Activated on 7 July 1944 : Inactivated on 28 May 1946

Assignments

504th Bombardment Group, 11 March – 10 May 1944 (not manned or equipped)
333d Bombardment Group, 7 July 1944 – 28 May 1946

Stations

Dalhart Army Air Field, Texas, 11 March 1944
Fairmont Army Air Field, Nebraska, 12 March – 10 May 1944
Dalhart Army Air Field, Texas, 7 July 1944
Great Bend Army Air Field, Kansas, 10 December 1944 – 18 June 1945
Kadena Airfield, Okinawa, 5 August 1945 – 28 May 1946

Aircraft

Boeing B-29 Superfortress, 1944–1946

Campaigns

Campaign Streamer	Campaign	Dates	Notes
[[Image:Streamer AC.PNG	200px]]	American Theater without inscription	11 March 1944 – 10 May 1944, 7 July 1944 – 18 June 1945
[[Image:Streamer APC.PNG	200px]]	Asiatic–Pacific Theater without inscription	5 August 1945 – 2 March 1946

References

Notes

; Explanatory notes

; Citations

Bibliography

References

Maurer, ''Combat Squadrons'', pp. 609–610
Maurer, ''Combat Units'', p. 368
Maurer, ''Combat Units'', pp. 213–214
''See'' Goss, p. 75 (details of 1944 reorganization).
Maurer, ''Combat Units'', p. 463

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