507th Bombardment Squadron

507th Bombardment Squadron

Emblem of the 507th Bombardment Squadron
Active 1944-1946
Country United States
Branch United States Army Air Forces
Type Bombardment

The 507th Bombardment Squadron was a unit of the United States Army Air Forces. Its last was assigned to the 333d Bombardment Group, stationed at Kadena Air Base, Okinawa. It was inactivated on 28 May 1946.

History

Established as a B-29 Superfortress very heavy bomb squadron in 1944. Trained under Second Air Force; deployed to the Western Pacific, being assigned to the new Eighth Air Force. Arrived in Okinawa but Japanese Capitulation led to drawdown of Eighth Air Force and the squadron never was engaged in combat.

Flew show-of-force missions over Occupied Japan and aircraft helped evacuate prisoners of war from Japan and China to airfields in the Philippines. Personnel demobilized and aircraft flown to storage in the United States in May 1946 and the unit was inactivated as a paper unit in Okinawa on 28 May.

Lineage

Activated on 11 March 1944
Inactivated on 10 May 1944
Activated on 7 July 1944
Inactivated on 28 May 1946

Assignments

Stations

Aircraft

References

 This article incorporates public domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency website http://www.afhra.af.mil/.

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