UNITED STATES ARMY AIR FORCES
SQUADRON & COMPANY GUIDONS
44th BOMBARDMENT GROUP (HEAVY) • ATTACHED SERVICE UNITS
The 50th Station Complement Squadron embodied the various section responsible for running the airfield from which the 44th BG operated. Additional support was provided by a quartermaster company (supply & transportation), an ordnance company (storage & issue of ammunition & bombs), a chemical decontamination company (one platoon detached to the 392nd BG) and a military police company (platoons detached to the 392nd and 492nd BGs). Also assigned was the 2033rd Engineer Firefighting Platoon (Separate) (Aviation), the 464th Sub-Depot (detached from Eighth Air Force Service Command) and Detachment 115, 18th Weather Squadron. These units were not organic but attached to the 44th BG.
Separate platoons were not authorized guidons; as a non-TOE organization the 464th Sub-Depot probably had a guidon with the Air Corps branch insignia only. For detachments of squadrons and companies the guidon is depicted though in practice it would have remained with the headquarters element.
Credits: The drawings on this page are based on the specifications given in Army Regulation 260-10 dated 25 October 1944, a copy of which was kindly provided by FOTW Mailing List member Joseph McMillan. Order of battle information was taken from Dr. Leo Niehorster’s outstanding and essential website, World War II Armed Forces: Orders of Battle and Organizations.
