26 Feb 1918 – Organized as 73rd Aero Squadron
  4 Jul  1919 – Demobilized
18 Oct 1927 – Constituted
  8 May1929 – Redesignated 73rd Pursuit Squadron
15 Jul 1931 –  Activated
  1 Mar 1935 – Redesignated 73rd Attack Squadron
17 Oct 1939 – Redesignated 73rd Bombardment Squadron (Medium)
  1 Nov 1943 – Disbanded

26 Feb - Nov 1918 – Unknown
    Nov - 1918-1919 – 2d Day Bombardment Group
   1919 - 4 Jul 1919 – Unknown
15 Jul 1931 – 17th Pursuit Group
  3 May 1941 – 28th Composite Group
  6 Oct - 1 Nov 1943 – Second Air Force

26 Feb 1918 – Waco, Tx
  1 Mar 1918 – Call Field, Tx
16 Jul - 13 Aug 1918 – Garden City, NY
c. 5 Sep 1918 – St Maixent, France
c. 20 Sep 1918  – Delouze, France
c. 5 Oct 1918  – Colombeyles-Belles, France
c. 15 Nov 1918 - 1919 – Ourches, France
c. 19 Jun - 4 Jul 1919 - Hazelhurst Field, NY
15 Jul 1931 – March Field, Ca
26 Jun 1940 - 10 Mar 1941– McChord Field, Wa
14 Mar 1941 – Elmendorf Field, Ak
1942 - 1943  - (Detachments operated from Ft Randall, Umnak, Adak, and Amchitka)
Apr 1943 – Umnak, Ak
Jun - 30 Aug 1943 – Amchitka, Ak
14 Sep 1943 - Paine Field, Wa
  6 Oct - 1 Nov 1943 – Pyote AAFld, Tx

1931 - 1934 – P-12
1934 - 1935 - P-26
1935 - 1936 - P-12
1936 - 1940 - A-17
1939 - 1942 - B-18
1942 - 1943 - B-26
1942 - 1943 - B-25

Operations

c. 15 Nov 1918 - 1919 – Air park with Second Army
 2 - 5 Mar 1938 – Reconnaissance inn support of flood-relief in Southern California
Dec 1941 - 13 Aug 1943 – Combat in the Northern Pacific

Service Steamers
Theater of Operations

Campaigns
Aleutian Islands; Air Combat, Asiatic-Pacific Theater

Decorations
None

Emblem
On a hurt and within an amulet or a conventionalized California Bear's head and shoulders affronte, with right paw raised, of the last, markings sable, eyes and tongue gules. (Approved 23 May 1932)
 
 

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Commanders:

      Mar 1941 -   Captain Donohew
  1  Jan 1942 -   Major Frances B. Gallagher
15 Dec 1942 -   Major Henry S. Taylor
18 April 1943 - Captain Warren A. Beth

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73rd BS Photographs

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Bomb Squadrons

21st       Shemya
36th       Elmendorf Field, Adak, Ladd
73rd       Elmendorf Field, Ladd
77th       Elmendorf Field, Attu
404th     Attu, Shemya
406th     Elmendorf Field, Kodiak

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