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The 781st Bombardment Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit. Its last assignment was to the 465th Bombardment Wing, stationed at Robins Air Force Base, Georgia. It was inactivated on 25 July 1968. ==History== Activated as a B-24 Liberator heavy bomb squadron in mid-1943, it trained under the Second Air Force. It was deployed to the Mediterranean Theater of Operations (MTO) in March 1944, where it was assigned to the Fifteenth Air Force. It flew strategic bombardment combat missions over France, Germany, Italy, Austria and the Balkans until the German capitulation in May 1945. The squadron was attached to Air Transport Command in June 1945; it used its B-24s as transport aircraft, flying personnel from Trinidad to Florida. The unit was inactivated in place in Trinidad during July 1945. Re-activated in 1953 as a Tactical Air Command C-119 Troop Carrier squadron under the Eighteenth Air Force, it primarily flew cargo transport missions, but also supported Army Airborne parachute units on maneuvers from Fort Bragg, North Carolina and Fort Campbell, Kentucky. The unit was reassigned in 1953 as a United States Air Forces in Europe troop carrier squadron, in France. It performed theater airlift and transport operations until 1958 when it was inactivated due to budget restrictions. The squadron was re-activated in 1963 as a Strategic Air Command (SAC) B-52G strategic bombardment squadron at Robins AFB, Georgia. It maintained nuclear alert and flew training missions on a global scale. It deployed to the Western Pacific and flew 'Arc Light' conventional strategic bombardment missions over Indochina. It returned to Robins where it was inactivated in 1968 when the 465th Bomb Wing was inactivated and its squadrons were absorbed by the re-activation of the 19th Bomb Wing, also at Robins. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「781st Bombardment Squadron」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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