500th Fighter-Bomber Squadron
# 500th Fighter-Bomber Squadron

The 500th Fighter-Bomber Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit. Its last assignment was with the 85th Fighter-Bomber Group stationed at Harris Neck Army Air Field, 1eorgia. It was inactivated on 1 May 1944.

## History

Participated in air-ground maneuvers, October 1942— April 1943, and afterward served as a replacement training unit until 1 May 1944

## Lineage

* Constituted as the 306th Bombardment Squadron (Light) on 13 January 1942

    Activated on 10 February 1942
    Redesignated 306th Bombardment Squadron (Dive) on 27 July 1942
    Redesignated 500th Fighter-Bomber Squadron on 10 August 1943
    Disbanded on 1 May 1944

### Assignments

* * 85th Bombardment Group (later 85th Fighter-Bomber Group), 10 February 1942 – 1 May 1944

### Stations

* Army Air Base, Savannah, Georgia, 10 February 1942
* Bowman Field, Kentucky, c. 16 February 1942
* Hunter Field, Georgia, 8 June 1942
* Waycross Army Air Field, Georgia, 15 August 1942
* Gillespie Field, Tennessee, 3 October 1942
* Blythe Army Air Base, California, 2 November 1942
* Rice Army Air Field, California, c. 11 December 1942
* Harding Army Air Field, Louisiana, c. 9 April 1943
* Waycross Army Air Field, Georgia, 23 August 1943
* Harris Neck Army Air Field, Georgia, 11 December 1943 – 1 May 1944

### Aircraft

* Vultee V-72 Vengeance, 1942
* Douglas A-24 Dauntless, 1942–1943
* North American A-36 Apache, 1943
* Bell P-39 Airacobra, 1943–1944
* Curtiss P-40 Warhawk, 1944
