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It covers all squadrons that were constituted or redesignated as bombardment squadron sometime during their active service. Few patches were produced during those formative years, but that changed during world war ii, when the organization was called the us army air forces usaaf. List of united states air force fighter squadrons wikipedia. I had never seen one so i thought i would post the auction images so all could see this piece. A squadron may be either a mission unit, such as an operational flying squadron, or a functional unit, such as a civil engineer, maintenance, security forces, or transportation squadron.
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