UNITED STATES ARMY AIR FORCES
SQUADRON & COMPANY GUIDONS
492nd BOMBARDMENT GROUP (HEAVY) • ATTACHED SERVICE UNITS
The 326th Station Complement Squadron embodied the various section responsible for running the airfield from which the 492nd BG operated. Additional support was provided by a quartermaster company (supply & transportation), an ordnance company (storage & issue of ammunition & bombs), a chemical decontamination detachment and two military police detachments. Also assigned were the 2108th Engineer Firefighting Platoon (Separate) (Aviation), the 479th Sub-Depot (detached from Eighth Air Force Service Command) and Detachment 112, 18th Weather Squadron. These units were not organic but attached to the 492nd BG.
Separate platoons were not authorized guidons; as a non-TOE organization the 479th 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.
