338th Combat Training Squadron, US Air Force
338TH COMBAT TRAINING SQUADRON, US AIR FORCE
History: Constituted as 338 Fighter Squadron (Twin Engine) on 10 Sep 1942. Activated on 12 Sep 1942. Redesignated as: 338 Fighter Squadron, Twin Engine on 20 Aug 1943; 338 Fighter Squadron, Single Engine on 5 Sep 1944. Inactivated on 20 Aug 1946. Redesignated as 338 Reconnaissance Squadron, Very Long Range, Mapping on 3 Feb 1947. Activated on 15 Mar 1947. Redesignated as 338 Strategic Reconnaissance Squadron, Photographic Mapping on 1 Jul 1949. Inactivated on 14 Oct 1949. Redesignated as 338 Strategic Reconnaissance Squadron, Medium, Photographic Mapping on 27 Oct 1950. Activated on 1 Nov 1950. Redesignated as 338 Strategic Reconnaissance Squadron, Medium on 15 Jul 1954. Discontinued, and inactivated, on 15 Jun 1963. Redesignated as 338 Strategic Reconnaissance Squadron, and activated, on 24 Feb 1967. Organized on 25 Mar 1967. Discontinued, and inactivated, on 25 Dec 1967. Redesignated as 338 Combat Training Squadron on 7 Sep 1999. Activated on 20 Sep 1999. Combat in European Theater of Operations (ETO), 15 Oct 1943 21 Apr 1945. Photographed islands in western Pacific region, 1947 1949. Aerial photography in support of short range navigation (SHORAN) projects, 1951 1954. Daily weather reconnaissance over northern North America, 1956 1963.
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Origin/meaning
The Emblem was approved 3 January 1943; latest rendering, 25 February 2022.
Literature: Image from Wikimedia Commons. Information from https://www.afhra.af.mil/
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