500th Fighter-Bomber Squadron
The 500th Fighter-Bomber Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit. Its last assignment was with the 85th Fighter-Bomber Group stationed at Harris Neck Army Air Field, 1eorgia. It was inactivated on 1 May 1944.History
Participated in air-ground maneuvers, October 1942— April 1943, and afterward served as a replacement training unit until 1 May 1944Lineage
- Constituted as the 306th Bombardment Squadron on 13 January 1942
Assignments
- * 85th Bombardment Group, 10 February 1942 – 1 May 1944
Stations
- Army Air Base, Savannah, Georgia, 10 February 1942
- Bowman Field, Kentucky, c. 16 February 1942
- Hunter Field, Georgia, 8 June 1942
- Waycross Army Air Field, Georgia, 15 August 1942
- Gillespie Field, Tennessee, 3 October 1942
- Blythe Army Air Base, California, 2 November 1942
- Rice Army Air Field, California, c. 11 December 1942
- Harding Army Air Field, Louisiana, c. 9 April 1943
- Waycross Army Air Field, Georgia, 23 August 1943
- Harris Neck Army Air Field, Georgia, 11 December 1943 – 1 May 1944
Aircraft
- Vultee V-72 Vengeance, 1942
- Douglas A-24 Dauntless, 1942–1943
- North American A-36 Apache, 1943
- Bell P-39 Airacobra, 1943–1944
- Curtiss P-40 Warhawk, 1944
