492d Fighter Squadron Patch - With hook and loop
Pilots and Crew! Enjoy this beautifully embroidered 492d Fighter Squadron Patch. You'll love the quality and be able to display or wear it proudly.
4 inches
Embroidered/Hook and Loop
US Veteran-Owned Business

A U.S. Air Force F-15E Strike Eagle assigned to the 492nd Fighter Squadron takes off from Royal Air Force Lakenheath, United Kingdom, to participate in exercise Cobra Warrior 23-1 March 6, 2023. The Liberty Wing's involvement in the exercise, the RAF's largest exercise, increases interoperability with NATO allies and partners, improving the ability to employ a strategic force in theater whenever called upon. (U.S. Air Force Photo by Airman 1st Class Olivia Gibson)

World War II
Activated as a Southeastern Air District Army Air Corps training squadron, equipped with a variety of second-line aircraft, both single and twin engine, preparing its pilots and maintenance crews for eventual combat. After the Pearl Harbor Attack, the squadron flew antisubmarine patrols from, March-April 1942. Resumed aircrew training, many of the group's members went on to serve in squadrons stationed in Europe and the Pacific theaters.
Eventually coming under the AAF III Fighter Command in 1944, trained replacement pilots with P-47 Thunderbolts, Converted in January 1944 to an operational fighter squadron with the end of RTU training. Deployed to the European Theater of Operations (ETO), being assigned to the IX Fighter Command in England, March 1944.
Almost immediately after their arrival, the squadron began a rigorous training program, flying dive-bombing, glide bombing, night flying, low-level navigation, smoke laying, reconnaissance, and patrol convoy sorties. Over the next two months, the number of sorties steadily increased and the squadron flew its first combat mission on 20 April 1944—an uneventful fighter sweep of the occupied French coast.
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