Description
Computer made/mounted on velcro 3.0 inch-77mm
427th SPECIAL OPERATIONS SQUADRON (AFSOC)
Lineage. Constituted 427 Night Fighter Squadron on 19 Jan 1944. Activated on 1 Feb 1944. Inactivated on 29 Oct 1945. Redesignated 427 Special Operations Training Squadron on 1 Jul 1970. Inactivated 15 Jul 1972. Redesignated 427 Special Operations Squadron on (unknown).
Assignments. IV Fighter Command (attached to 481 Night Fighter Operational Training Group), 1 Feb 1944; Tenth Air Force, 11 Jun 1944; Twelfth Air Force (attached to 62 Fighter Wing), Sep 1944; AAF, India-Burma Sector, 2 Oct 1944; Tenth Air Force, 13 Dec 1944; Fourteenth Air Force, 24 Aug-29 Oct 1945. 4410 Special Operations Training Group 1970-1972. AF Special Operations Command -unknown.
Stations. Hammer Field, Calif, 1 Feb 1944; Bakersfield, Calif, 1 May-12 Jul 1944; Pomigliano, Italy, 12 Aug-20 Sep 1944 (air echelon relocated to Pomigliano, Italy on 25 Jul 44. ground echelon departed on 27 Jul 44); Pandaveswar, India, 31 Oct 1944 (detachments operated from Myitkyina, Burma, 13 Nov-Dec 1944); Myitkyina, Burma, c. Dec 1944 (detachment operated from Kunming, China, 18 Dec 1944-c. 28 Jun 1945); Dinjan, India, c. 25 May 1945 (detachments operated from Chengkung, China, 29 Jun-c. 16 Aug 1945; Nanning, China, 26 Jul-c. 16 Aug 1945); Unit consolidated at Liuchow, China, 13 Aug 1945; India, Sep-Oct 1945; Camp Kilmer, NJ, 28-29 Oct 1945. England AFB, LA 1970-1972. Pope AFB, NC -unknown.
Aircraft. P-47 1944; P-70, 1944; P-61, 1944-1945. A-37 1970-1972; CN-235 -unknown.
Operations. Combat in MTO, Sep 1944, and in CBI, 23 Nov 1944-14 Aug 1945. Provided transition training for Republic of Vietnam Air Force pilots on the Cessna OA-37B Dragonfly counterinsurgency aircraft. Operating covert insertion, extraction and resupply missions in support of SOCOM, JSOC and the CIA Special Activities Division.
Service Streamers. None.
Campaigns. Rome-Arno; India-Burma; China Defensive; North Apennines; Central Burma; China Offensive.
Decorations. None.
Emblem. Approved 30 Apr 1945.