35th Bombardment Squadron
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The 35th Bombardment Squadron a United States Air Force
United States Air Force
The United States Air Force is the aerial warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the American uniformed services. Initially part of the United States Army, the USAF was formed as a separate branch of the military on September 18, 1947 under the National Security Act of...

 unit. Its last assignment was with the 322d Bombardment Group
322d Air Expeditionary Group
The 322d Air Expeditionary Group is a provisional United States Air Force unit assigned to the United States Air Forces in Europe. As a provisional unit, it may be activated or inactivated at any time....

, based at Phillips Field, Beltsville, Maryland
Beltsville, Maryland
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. It was inactivated on on 27 June 1949.

Lineage

  • Constituted 35th Bombardment Squadron (Heavy) on 22 December 1939
Activated on 1 February 1940.
Redesignated 35th Bombardment Squadron (Medium) on 7 May 1942
Disbanded on 20 June 1944
  • Reconstituted, and redesignated 35th Bombardment Squadron (Light), on 26 May 1947
Activated in the reserve on 13 July 1947
Inactivated on 27 June 1949.

Assignments

  • 25th Bombardment Group
    25th Tactical Reconnaissance Wing
    The 25th Tactical Reconnaissance Wing is an inactive United States Air Force wing. Its last duty assignment was at Chambley-Bussieres Air Base, France.-History:...

    , 1 February 1940-20 June 1944
  • Eleventh Air Force
    Eleventh Air Force
    The Eleventh Air Force is a numbered air force of the United States Air Force Pacific Air Forces . It is headquartered at Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska....

    , 13 July 1947
  • 322d Bombardment Group
    322d Air Expeditionary Group
    The 322d Air Expeditionary Group is a provisional United States Air Force unit assigned to the United States Air Forces in Europe. As a provisional unit, it may be activated or inactivated at any time....

    , 30 September 1947-27 June 1949.

Stations

  • Langley Field, Virginia
    Virginia
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    , February-26 October 1940
  • Borinquen Field, Puerto Rico
    Puerto Rico
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    , 31 October 1941
  • Coolidge Field
    VC Bird International Airport
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    , Antigua
    Antigua
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    , 11 November 1941
  • Zandery Field
    Johan Adolf Pengel International Airport
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    , Surinam, 1 November 1942
Detachment operated from: Atkinson Field
Cheddi Jagan International Airport
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, British Guiana
British Guiana
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, 1 November 1942-c. 7 October 1943
Detachment operated from: Port of Spain
Piarco International Airport
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, Trinidad
Trinidad
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, 27 August-12 October 1943
  • Vernam Field
    Vernam Air Force Base
    Vernam Field is a former World War II United States Army Air Forces airfield located in Clarendon Parish, west-southwest of Kingston, Jamaica...

    , Jamaica
    Jamaica
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    , c. 7 October 1943
  • Trinidad
    Trinidad
    Trinidad is the larger and more populous of the two major islands and numerous landforms which make up the island nation of Trinidad and Tobago. It is the southernmost island in the Caribbean and lies just off the northeastern coast of Venezuela. With an area of it is also the fifth largest in...

    , 7 February-24 March 1944
  • Alamogordo AAF, New Mexico
    New Mexico
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    , April-20 June 1944
  • Phillips Field, Maryland
    Maryland
    Maryland is a U.S. state located in the Mid Atlantic region of the United States, bordering Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and Delaware to its east...

    , 13 July 1947-27 June 1949

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