500th Fighter-Bomber Squadron explained

Unit Name:	500th Fighter-Bomber Squadron
Dates:	1942–1944
Role:	Fighter-Bomber training
Battles:	World War II
Identification Symbol Label:	499th Fighter-Bomber Squadron) emblem (approved 31 August 1942)^[1]

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 Air Field, 1eorgia. It was inactivated on 1 May 1944.

History

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

Lineage

• Constituted as the 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^[1]

Assignments

• * 85th Bombardment Group (later 85th Fighter-Bomber Group), 10 February 1942 – 1 May 1944^[1]

Stations

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

Aircraft

• Vultee V-72 Vengeance, 1942
• Douglas A-24 Dauntless, 1942–1943
• North American A-36 Apache, 1943
• Bell P-39 Airacobra, 1943–1944
• Curtiss P-40 Warhawk, 1944^[1]

References

Bibliography

• Book: Maurer, Maurer. Air Force Combat Units of World War II. 1961. December 17, 2016. reprint. 1983. Office of Air Force History. Washington, DC. 0-912799-02-1. 61060979.
• Book: Maurer, Maurer. Combat Squadrons of the Air Force, World War II. 1969. reprint. 1982. Office of Air Force History. Washington, DC. 0-405-12194-6. 72556. 70605402.

Notes and References

1. Maurer, Combat Squadrons, p. 603