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404th Bomb Squadron |
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15 Jan 1941 - Activated
22 Apr 1942 - Redesignated 404th Bombardment Squadron (Heavy)
5 Jan 1947 - Inactivated
Assignments
25 Feb 1942 - Assigned 28th Composite (later Bombardment) Group
ca. 12 Jul 1942 - Air Echelon attached
ca.21 Sep 1942 - Squadron Assigned
20 Oct 1945 - 5 Jan 1947 - Eleventh Air Force (later Alaskan Air Command)
Stations
7 Feb 1942 - Barksdale Field, La
12 Jul 1942 - Ladd Field, Ak
ca. 18 Jul 1942 - Nome, Ak
25 Jul 1942 - Will Rogers Field, Ok
24 Aug 1942 - Umnak, Ak
30 Aug - 10 Sep 1942 - Ft Lewis, Wa>
13 Sep 1942 - Adak, Ak
21 Sep 1942 - Elmendorf Field, Ak
22 Mar 1943 - Adak, Ak
4 Jun 1943 - Amchitka, Ak
ca. 26 Feb 1944 - 5 Jan 1947 - Shemya
Operations
18 Jul 1942 - 13 Aug 1945 Combat in the Aleutian Islands, Bering Sea, and Northern Pacific
1945 - 1946 Radar mapping of the Aleutians and Alaska
Service
Streamers
None
Campaigns
Decorations
Photographs of the 404th Bomb Squadron
21st
Shemya
36th Elmendorf Field (26 May 41), Adak; detachment: Ladd Field
73rd Elmendorf Field (30 Mar 41); detachment: Ladd Field
77th Elmendorf Field (25 Jan 42-?), Attu (Casco Cove)
404th Attu (Casco Cove), Shemya
406th Elmendorf Field, Kodiak
