783d Bombardment Squadron

783d Bombardment Squadron

Emblem of the 783d Troop Carrier Squadron
Active 1943–1945
Country United States
Branch United States Air Force
Type Bombardment/Troop Carrier

The 783d Bombardment Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit. Its last assignment was to the 465th Bombardment Group, stationed at Waller Field, Trinidad.

It was inactivated on 31 July 1945.

History

Activated as a B-24 Liberator heavy bomber squadron in mid-1943, it trained under the Second Air Force. The unit deployed to the Mediterranean Theater of Operations (MTO) in March 1944, where it was assigned to the Fifteenth Air Force. It flew strategic bombardment combat missions over Southern Europe, France, Germany, Italy, Austria and the Balkans until the German capitulation in May 1945.

Attached to Air Transport Command in June 1945, it used its B-24s as transport aircraft, flying personnel from Trinidad to Florida. The squadron inactivated in place in Trinidad during July 1945.

Lineage

Activated on 1 August 1943
Inactivated on 31 July 1945

Assignments

Stations

Aircraft

References

 This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the Air Force Historical Research Agency.

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