38th Reconnaissance Squadron / 427th Bombardment Squadron

Organized as 38th Aero Squadron on 12 Jun 1917. Redesignated Squadron A, Chanute Field, IL, on 13 Jul 1918. Demobilized on 1 Dec 1918. Reconstituted and consolidated (1933) with 38th Pursuit Squadron which was constituted on 24 Mar 1923. Activated on 1 Aug 1933. Redesignated 38th Observation Squadron (Long Range, Light Bombardment), and inactivated, on 1 Mar 1935. Redesignated 38th Reconnaissance Squadron, and activated, on 1 Sep 1936. Redesignated: 38th Reconnaissance Squadron (Long Range) on 6 Dec 1939; 38th Reconnaissance Squadron (Heavy) on 20 Nov 1940; 427th Bombardment Squadron (Heavy) on 22 Apr 1942. Inactivated on 25 Jul 1945. Redesignated 427th Bombardment Squadron (Medium) on 20 Aug 1958. Activated on 1 Dec 1958. Discontinued, and inactivated, on 1 Jan 1962

Insignia. US made schiffli embroidery

Stations. AAB Albuquerque, NM, 5 Jun-22 Nov 1941; (air echelon departed Hamilton Field, CA, 6 Dec 1941; arrived Hickam Field, TH, 7 Dec 1941), Minter Field, CA, 17 Dec 1941; Gowen Field, ID, 13 Mar 1942; Alamogordo AAF, NM, 18 Jun 1942; Biggs Field, TX, 7-22 Aug 1942; RAF Molesworth (Station 107), UK, 12 Sep 1942; Casablanca Airfield, French Morocco, c. 31 May-25 Jul 1945.