36th
Bomb
Squadron
Courtesy: USAF Office of History
Lineage
22 Dec 1939
-
36th Bombardment Squadron (Heavy)
1 Feb 1940 - Activated
15 Dec
1945 - Inactivated
Assignments
1 Feb
1940 - 28th Composite Group, Attached
19 Oct
1943 - Fourth Air Force
2 Nov 1943 - Eighth Air Force
Stations 1 Feb
1940 - March Field, Ca
9 Aug 1940 - 23 Mar 1941 - Lowry Field, Co
31 Mar
1941 - Elmendorf Field, Ak
ca. 9
Feb 1942 - 28 May 1943 - Fort Greely, Ak
4 Jun 1942 - 1 May 1943 - Operated from various places, including
Umnak, Kodiak, Adak, and Amchitka
4 May - 13 Sep 1943 - Amchitka, Ak
1 Jun - 4 Aug 1943 - Adak, Ak
30 Sep
- Oct 1943 - McChord Field, Wa
ca. 6
Nov 1943 - Alconbury England
Aircraft
1940 - 1942
-
B-18
1942 -
1943
- B-17
1942 - LB-30
1942 -
1945
- B-24
Operations
1940-1941
Reconnaissance and photo-mapping of Bering
Sea and Alaska
Dec
1941 - Aug 1943 Combat in the Northern
Pacific
Dec 1943
- Aug 1944 >CARPETBAGGER missions in
the European Theater of Operations
Service
Streamers
None
Campaigns
Air Offensive, Japan; Aleutian
Islands; Air Combat, Asiatic-Pacific Theater Air Offensive, Europe, Normandy,
Northern France; Rhineland; Central Europe
Decorations
11 Jan 1944
-
Distinguished Unit Citation: Germany. Croix de Guerre with Palm.
Mission
Squadron
Troop Movements
Captain
Alex J. Katz - 36BS Pilot
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
Royal
Canadian Air Force
RCAF
Units
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