UNITED STATES ARMY AIR FORCES

SQUADRON & COMPANY GUIDONS 445th BOMBARDMENT GROUP (HEAVY)  •  ATTACHED SERVICE UNITS

The 53th Station Complement Squadron embodied the various sections responsible for running the airfield from which the 445th 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 2043rd Engineer Firefighting Platoon (Separate) (Aviation), the 463rd Sub-Depot (detached from Eighth Air Force Service Command) and Detachment 114, 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 463rd 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.

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