| 词条 | 444th Air Expeditionary Squadron |
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|unit_name= 444th Air Expeditionary Squadron |image=320th BW Boeing B-47B-50-BW Stratojet 51-2307.jpg |image_size=300 |caption=320th Bombardment Wing B-47 Stratojet[1] |dates=1942–1945; 1947–1949; 1958–1960 |country={{USA}} |branch={{air force|USA}} |type= |role=Expeditionary Support |size= |command_structure=Air Combat Command |current_commander= |garrison= |ceremonial_chief= |colonel_of_the_regiment= |nickname= |patron= |motto= |colors= |march= |mascot= |battles=Mediterranean Theater of Operations[2] |notable_commanders= |anniversaries= |decorations=Distinguished Unit Citation French Croix de Guerre with Palm[2] |battle_honours= |identification_symbol= |identification_symbol_label=Patch with 444th Bombardment Squadron emblem (World War II)[3] |identification_symbol_2= |identification_symbol_2_label= }} The 444th Bombardment Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit. Its last was assigned to the 320th Bombardment Wing, stationed at March Air Force Base, California. It was inactivated on 15 September 1960. HistoryWorld War IIEstablished in mid-1942 as a Martin B-26 Marauder medium bomber group. Trained under Third Air Force in Florida, deployed to England under the VIII Air Support Command, 3d Bombardment Wing. Operated against targets on the continent during early fall of 1942; deployed to North Africa as part of Twelfth Air Force after Operation Torch landings in Algeria in November. Flew tactical bombing missions against Axis forces in North Africa until the end of the Tunisian Campaign in May 1943. Participated in the Sicilian and Italian Campaigns; liberation of Corsica and Sardinia and the Invasion of Southern France. Supported Allied ground forces in the Western Allied Invasion of Germany, spring 1945 and becoming part of the United States Air Forces in Europe Army of Occupation in Germany, fall 1945. Personnel demobilized in Germany and the squadron inactivated as a paper unit in December 1945. ReservesReactivated in the reserves in 1947. Never manned or equipped. Strategic Air CommandFrom 1958, the Boeing B-47 Stratojet wings of Strategic Air Command (SAC) began to assume an alert posture at their home bases, reducing the amount of time spent on alert at overseas bases. The SAC alert cycle divided itself into four parts: planning, flying, alert and rest to meet General Thomas S. Power’s initial goal of maintaining one third of SAC’s planes on fifteen minute ground alert, fully fueled and ready for combat to reduce vulnerability to a Soviet missile strike.[5] To implement this new system B-47 wings reorganized from three to four squadrons.[6][7] The 444th was activated at March Air Force Base as the fourth squadron of the 320th Bombardment Wing.[2] In September, the phaseout of the B-47 be accelerated resulted in the squadron and 320th Wing being inactivated on 15 September 1960, with the aircraft were sent to AMARC storage at Davis-Monthan. Lineage
Activated on 1 July 1942 Redesignated 444th Bombardment Squadron, Medium on 9 October 1944 Inactivated on 8 December 1945
Activated in the reserve on 9 July 1947 Inactivated on 27 June 1949
Activated on 1 January 1959 Discontinued on 15 September 1960[2] Assignments
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1. ^Aircraft is Boeing B-47B-50-BW Stratojet serial 51-2307 2. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 {{cite web |url= http://www.afhra.af.mil/About-Us/Fact-Sheets/Display/Article/432233/444-air-expeditionary-squadron-acc/ |last1=Robertson|first1=Patsy|title=Factsheet 444 Air Expeditionary Squadron (ACC)|date=August 22, 2011|publisher=Air Force Historical Research Agency|deadurl=no |accessdate=July 4, 2017}} 3. ^Watkins, pp. 84-85 4. ^Aircraft is Martin B-26G-5-MA Marauder serial 43-34240, nicknamed "Pancho and His Reever Rats". This plane was shot down by flak over Covigliano,Italy on 23 August 1944. Missing Aircraft Crew Report 7997. 5. ^Schake, p. 220 (note 43) 6. ^Schake, p. 220 (note 43) 7. ^{{cite web |url= http://www.airforcehistoryindex.org/data/001/010/802.xml|last1=|first1=|title=Abstract (Unclassified), History of the Strategic Bomber since 1945 (Top Secret, downgraded to Secret)|date=1 April 1975|publisher=Air Force History Index|deadurl=no |accessdate=March 4, 2014}} 8. ^1 Station number in Anderson. 9. ^1 2 3 Station number in Johnson.
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