839th Bombardment Squadron
id:
839th-bombardment-squadron-240-16001008
title:
839th Bombardment Squadron
text:
The 839th Bombardment Squadron is an inactive United States Army Air Forces unit. It was activated in January 1941 as the 79th Bombardment Squadron and equipped with Douglas A-20 Havoc light bombers. Following the attack on Pearl Harbor the squadron began to fly antisubmarine patrols off the Atlantic coast and over the Caribbean Sea, becoming the 8th Antisubmarine Squadron. After the Navy assumed the unit's mission, it moved to New Mexico, where it formed the cadre for and trained as a Consolida
brand slug:
wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
Military unit
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/839th_Bombardment_Squadron
date created:
date modified:
2024-02-18T12:12:44Z
main entity:
{"identifier":"Q4644706","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4644706"}
image:
{"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1c/487bg-839bs-42-52747-shoo-shoo-baby-b-24.jpg","width":745,"height":593}
fields total:
13
integrity:
15