477th Tactical Fighter Squadron

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477th Tactical Fighter Squadron
(later 477th Tactical Electronic Warfare Training Squadron)
481st Tactical Fighter Squadron - North American F-100D-75-NA Super Sabre - 56-3151.jpg
477th Squadron F-100D Super Sabre [note 1]
Active1942–1944; 1957–1959
CountryFlag of the United States (23px).png  United States
BranchFlag of the United States Air Force.svg  United States Air Force
Role Fighter
Insignia
477th Bombardment Squadron emblem [1] [note 2] 477th Bombardment Squadron - Emblem.png

The 477th Tactical Fighter Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit. It was assigned to the 312th Tactical Fighter Wing at Cannon Air Force Base. New Mexico, where it was inactivated on 18 February 1959, when it transferred its personnel and equipment to another squadron. It flew North American F-100 Super Sabres and deployed to support NATO forces in Germany.

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It was consolidated in September 1985 with the 477th Bombardment Squadron, which served as a medium bomber training unit from 1942 to 1944, when it was disbanded in a reorganization of Army Air Forces training units, as the 477th Tactical Electronic Warfare Training Squadron, but the consolidated squadron has not been active.

History

Fighter operations

The 477th Fighter-Bomber Squadron was activated at Clovis Air Force Base, New Mexico in October 1957 [2] as the fourth North American F-100 Super Sabre of the 312th Tactical Fighter Wing. [3] The squadron deployed to Turkey for NATO rotational commitments.[ citation needed ] The squadron was inactivated in 1959 and transferred its personnel and equipment to the 481st Tactical Fighter Squadron when the 27th Tactical Fighter Wing moved on paper from Bergstrom Air Force Base, Texas to Cannon to replace the 312th Wing. [4]

World War II training operations

B-26 Marauder as flown by the squadron during World War II B-26 Glenn L. Martin photo (15939933294).jpg
B-26 Marauder as flown by the squadron during World War II

The 477th Bombardment Squadron was activated on 17 July 1942 at Barksdale Field, Louisiana as one of the original components of the 335th Bombardment Group, and was equipped with Martin B-26 Marauders. [1] [5] [6] The 476th acted as a Replacement Training Unit (RTU) for the B-26. [6] However, the AAF found that standard military units, whose manning was based on relatively inflexible tables of organization were not well adapted to the training mission. Accordingly, in the spring of 1944, the 335th Group, its components and supporting units at Barksdale, were disbanded on 1 May and replaced by the 331st AAF Base Unit (Medium, Bombardment). The squadron was replaced by Section U of the new base unit. [5] [7] [8]

Consolidation

The squadrons were consolidated as the 477th Tactical Electronic Warfare Training Squadron on 19 September 1985. [9]

Lineage

477th Bombardment Squadron
Activated on 17 July 1942
Disbanded on 1 May 1944 [1]
Reconstituted on 19 September 1985 and consolidated with the 477th Tactical Fighter Squadron as the 477th Tactical Electronic Warfare Training Squadron [9]
477th Tactical Electronic Warfare Training Squadron
Activated on 8 October 1957 [10]
Redesignated: 477th Tactical Fighter Squadron on 1 July 1958
Inactivated on 18 February 1959 [11]
Consolidated with the 477th Bombardment Squadron as the 477th Tactical Electronic Warfare Training Squadron on 19 September 1985 [9]

Assignments

Stations

Aircraft

Campaigns

Service StreamerCampaignDatesNotes
Streamer AC.PNG American Theater without inscription17 July 1942 – 1 May 1944477th Bombardment Squadron [1]

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References

Notes

Explanatory notes
  1. ↑ Aircraft is North American F-100D-75-NA Super Sabre, serial 56-3151.
  2. ↑ Approved 28 February 1944.
Citations
  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Maurer, Combat Squadrons, pp. 577-578
  2. ↑ See Mueller, p. 61 (start of time at Cannon AFB.
  3. 1 2 3 Ravenstein, pp. 159-160
  4. ↑ Ravenstein, pp. 50-52; Mueller, pp. 61-62
  5. 1 2 Maurer, Combat Units, pp. 214-215.
  6. 1 2 Craven & Cate, Introduction, p. xxxvi
  7. ↑ "Abstract, History 335 Bombardment Group [and 331 AAF Base Unit], July 1942 – October 1944". Air Force History Index. 2 December 1961. Retrieved 3 January 2021.
  8. ↑ See Mueller, p. 19 (showing simultaneous activation and inactivation of units at Barksdale).
  9. 1 2 3 Department of the Air Force/MPM Letter 662q, 19 September 1985, Subject: Reconstitution, Redesignation, and Consolidation of Selected Air Force Tactical Squadrons
  10. ↑ See Mueller, p. 61 (start of stationing at Clovis AFB); Ravenstein, pp. 159-160 (start of assignment to 312th Wing).
  11. ↑ See Mueller, p. 61 (end of stationing at Clovis AFB); Ravenstein, pp. 159-160 (end of assignment to 312th Wing).
  12. ↑ Mueller, p. 61

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