598 Range Squadron (ACC)

Lineage. Constituted as 598 Bombardment Squadron, Medium, on 20 Mar 1943. Activated on 20 Apr 1943. Inactivated on 26 Dec 1945. Redesignated as 598 Range Squadron on 12 Aug 2015. Activated on 22 Sep 2015.

Assignments. 397 Bombardment Group, 20 Apr 1943-26 Dec 1945. 23 Fighter Group, 22 Sep 2015-.

Stations. MacDill Field, FL, 20 Apr 1943; Avon Park Bombing Range, FL, 15 Oct 1943; Hunter Field, GA, 2 Nov 1943-13 Mar 1944; Gosfield, England, 5 Apr 1944; Rivenhall, England, 15 Apr 1944; Hurn, England, 4 Aug 1944; Gorges, France, c. 31 Aug 1944; Dreux, France, 15 Sep 1944; Peronne, France, 7 Oct 1944; Venlo, Holland, 25 Apr 1945; Peronne, France, 31 May-c. Dec 1945; Camp Patrick Henry, VA, 26 Dec 1945. Avon Park Air Force Range, 22 Sep 2015-.

Aircraft. B-26, 1943-1945.

Operations. Combat in European Theater of Operations (ETO), 20 Apr 1944-20 Apr 1945.

Service Streamers. None.

Campaign Streamers. World War II: Air Offensive, Europe; Normandy; Northern France; Rhineland; Ardennes-Alsace; Central Europe.

Armed Forces Expeditionary Streamers. None.

Decorations. Distinguished Unit Citation: Eller, Germany, 23 Dec 1944.

Lineage, Assignments, Stations, and Honors through 5 Jan 2016.

Aircraft, and Operations through 26 Dec 1945.

Supersedes statement published in Maurer Maurer, Combat Squadrons of the Air Force, World War II (Washington, DC: USGPO, 1969), 678-679.

Emblem. Approved on 5 Feb 1944.

Prepared by Daniel Haulman.