Description: 4 inch 524TH FIGHTER SQ HOUNDS OF HEAVEN PATCH- SEW ON The squadron was re-manned and re-equipped at Hunter Field with the Douglas A-20 Havoc light bomber. After additional training in Mississippi and Louisiana, the group moved to Ste-Barbe-du-Tlelat Airfield, Algeria, arriving on 26 December[1] to enter combat in North Africa with Twelfth Air Force. Republic P-47 Thunderbolt Maintenance and support personnel went by sea to North Africa while aircrews and the A-20s flew to South America then across to North Africa, In North Africa, the A-20s were sent to other groups and the 91st was redesignated as the 524th Fighter-Bomber Squadron and equipped with the North American A-36 Apache dive bomber. The squadron flew its first combat missions of the war from Korba Airfield, Tunisia on 6 June 1943. The 524th was redesignated the 524th Fighter Squadron in May 1944 and converted first to the Curtiss P-40 Warhawk, then to the Republic P-47 Thunderbolt aircraft.[1] During Operation Husky, the Allied invasion of Sicily, operations included participation in the reduction of Pantelleria and Lampedusa Islands and supporting ground forces. In the Italian Campaign the squadron covered the landings at Salerno and received a DUC for preventing three German armored divisions from reaching the Salerno beachhead on 10 September 1943. In addition, the group supported the Fifth Army during the Allied drive toward Rome.[2] The squadron took part in Operation Dragoon, the invasion of southern France, and assisted Seventh Army's advance up the Rhone Valley, receiving a fifth DUC for helping to disrupt the German retreat on 4 September 1944.[2] The 524th took part in the air interdiction of the enemy's communications in northern Italy, and assisted in the Allied drive from France into Germany during the last months of the war. The unit was at Biblis, Germany on V-E Day.[2] The squadron remained in Germany with the Army of Occupation until October 1945 before returning to the US, where it was inactivated upon arriving at the Port of Embarkation in November.[1] Constituted as the 11th Reconnaissance Squadron (Light) on 20 November 1940 Activated on 15 January 1941 Redesignated 91st Bombardment Squadron (Light) on 14 August 1941 Redesignated 524th Fighter-Bomber Squadron on 23 August 1943 Redesignated 524th Fighter Squadron, Single Engine on 30 May 1944 Inactivated on 7 November 1945 Activated on 20 August 1946 Redesignated 524th Fighter Squadron, Two Engine on 22 July 1947 Redesignated 524th Fighter Squadron, Jet on 1 December 1949 Redesignated 524th Fighter-Escort Squadron on 1 February 1950 Redesignated 524th Strategic Fighter Squadron on 20 January 1953 Redesignated 524th Fighter-Bomber Squadron on 1 July 1957 Redesignated 524th Tactical Fighter Squadron on 1 July 1958 Redesignated 524th Tactical Fighter Training Squadron on 8 July 1980 Redesignated 524th Fighter Squadron on 1 November 1991. Inactivated on 20 September 2007 Redesignated 524th Special Operations Squadron on 23 September 2009 Activated on 1 October 2009[8]
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