Marine All Weather Attack Squadron 332 (VMA(AW)-332) Operation STEEL TIGER

Established as Marine Scout Bomber Squadron 332 (VMSB-332) in Jun 1942. Redesignated Marine Torpedo Bombing Squadron 332 (VMTB-332) on 1 Mar 1945. Decactivated in 1945. Recommissioned Marine Attack Squadron 332 (VMA-332) on 23 Apr 1952. Redesignated Marine All Weather Attack Squadron 332 (VMA(AW)-332) on 20 Aug 1968; Marine All Weather Fighter Attack Squadron 332 (VMFA(AW)-332) on 16 Jun 1993. Deactivated on 30 Mar 2007.

Grumman A-6 Intruder

Operation Steel Tiger was a covert U.S. 2nd Air Division, later Seventh Air Force and U.S. Navy Task Force 77 aerial interdiction effort targeted against the infiltration of People's Army of Vietnam (PAV) men and material moving south from the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV or North Vietnam) through southeastern Laos to support their military effort in the Republic of Vietnam (RVN or South Vietnam) during the Vietnam War.