499th Fighter-Bomber Squadron
The 499th Fighter-Bomber Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit. Its last assignment was with the 85th Fighter-Bomber Group stationed at Waycross Army Airfield, Georgia. 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 1944Lineage
- Constituted as the 305th Bombardment Squadron on 13 January 1942
Assignments
- 85th Bombardment Group, 10 February 1942 – 1 May 1944
Stations
- Savannah Army Air Base, Georgia, 10 February 1942
- Bowman Field, Kentucky, 16 February 1942
- Hunter Field, Georgia, 9 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, 10 December 1942
- Harding Army Air Field, Louisiana, 8 April 1943
- Waycross Army Air Field, Georgia, 22 August 1943
- Harris Neck Army Air Field, Georgia, 20 September 1943
- Waycross Army Air Field, Georgia, 13 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
- [Republic P-47 Thunderbolt, 1944
