72nd Test and Evaluation Squadron, US Air Force
72ND TEST AND EVALUATION SQUADRON, US AIR FORCE
History: Organized as 72nd Aero Squadron on 18 Feb 1918. Demobilized on 11 Jul 1919. Reconstituted, and consolidated (1924) with the 72nd Bombardment Squadron, which was constituted on 6 Feb 1923. Activated on 1 May 1923. Redesignated: 72nd Bombardment Squadron (Medium) on 6 Dec 1939; 72nd Bombardment Squadron (Heavy) on 20 Nov 1940; 72nd Bombardment Squadron, Heavy, on 6 Mar 1944; 72nd Bombardment Squadron, Very Heavy, on 30 Apr 1946. Inactivated on 10 Mar 1947. Redesignated 72nd Reconnaissance Squadron, Very Long Range, Photographic, on 16 Sep 1947. Activated on 13 Oct 1947. Redesignated: 72nd Strategic Reconnaissance Squadron, Photographic, on 23 Feb 1949; 72nd Strategic Reconnaissance Squadron, Heavy, on 14 Nov 1950; 72nd Bombardment Squadron, Heavy, on 1 Oct 1955. Discontinued, and inactivated, on 1 Feb 1963. Redesignated 72nd Bomb Squadron on 30 Nov 1994. Activated on 1 Dec 1994. Inactivated on 1 Jul 1996. Redesignated 72nd Test and Evaluation Squadron on 1 Nov 1998. Activated on 20 Nov 1998.
Air park in Zone of Advance, 1918-1919. Bombed lava flowing from Mauna Loa, thus diverting it from the city of Hilo, 27 Dec 1935. Patrols over the Pacific, 7 Dec 1941-Sep 1942 and 8 Aug-2 Oct 1943. Combat in South and Southwest Pacific, 26 Sep 1942-6 Aug 1943; 4 Oct-15 Nov 1943; 24 Dec 1943-2 Apr 1944; and in Southwest and Western Pacific, 18 Apr 1944-12 Aug 1945. Flew mapping reconnaissance missions over Arctic frontiers, 1947-1949 and long range strategic reconnaissance missions, 1950-1954. Maintained capability to deliver nuclear or conventional bombs world-wide, 1955-1963 and 1995-1996.
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The Emblem was approved on 14 February 1924; latest rendering, 1 April 2019.
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