474 Bombardment Sq emblem (approved 4 May 1943)[1]
Military unit
The 474th Tactical Electronic Warfare Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit. Its first predecessor is the 474th Bombardment Squadron, which served as a medium bomber training unit from 1942 to 1944, when it was disbanded in a reorganization of Army Air Forces training units.
The squadron's second predecessor is the 474th Tactical Fighter Squadron, which flew North American F-86 Sabre and North American F-100 Super Sabre fighters from October 1957 until March 1959, when it was inactivated and transferred its personnel and equipment to another unit. The two squadrons were consolidated in September 1985.
The 474th acted as a Replacement Training Unit (RTU) for the B-26. The RTU was an oversized unit which trained individual pilots and aircrews, after which they would be assigned to operational units.[3] However, the AAF found that standard military units, whose manning was based on relatively inflexible tables of organization were not well adapted to the training mission. Accordingly, it adopted a more functional system in which each base was organized into a separate numbered unit, manned according to the base's specific needs.[6] As this reorganization was implemented in the spring of 1944, he 335th Group, its components and supporting units at Barksdale, were disbanded on 1 May and replaced by the 331st AAF Base Unit (Medium, Bombardment). The squadron became Section O of the new base unit.[2][4][7]
335th Bombardment Group, 17 July 1942 – 1 May 1944[1]
413th Fighter-Day Wing (later 413th Tactical Fighter Wing), 8 October 1957 – 15 March 1959 (attached to 65th Air Division 11 November 1958 – 14 March 1959)[12]
^ abcDepartment of the Air Force/MPM Letter 662q, 19 September 1985, Subject: Reconstitution, Redesignation, and Consolidation of Selected Air Force Tactical Squadrons
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