644th Bomb Squadron

rdf:langString 644th Bomb Squadron

rdf:langString 644th Bomb Squadron

rdf:langString AF OUA

rdf:langString AF PUC

rdf:langString Germany, 644th Bombardment Squadron

rdf:langString Squadron B-52H Stratofortress

rdf:langString World War II 644th Bombardment Squadron fuselage code

rdf:langString The 644th Bomb Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit. It was last assigned to the 410th Bombardment Wing at K. I. Sawyer Air Force Base, Michigan, where it was inactivated on 21 November 1994. First activated as the 644th Bombardment Squadron during World War II, the squadron moved to the European Theater of Operations in the spring of 1944. It flew air support and air interdiction missions with Douglas A-20 Havoc bombers, first from England, then from Advanced Landing Grounds on the European continent. It received a Distinguished Unit Citation for missions flown against German targets during the Battle of the Bulge. In February 1945, the unit began converting to the Douglas A-26 Invader, but the war ended before it flew any combat missions with its new aircraft. The squadron was redesignated the 644th Strategic Missile Squadron and activated in 1959 as a SM-75 Thor training unit, training Royal Air Force missile crews. It was inactivated later that year. The squadron returned to its bombardment designation in 1963, when it was activated to replace a Boeing B-52H Stratofortress squadron at K. I. Sawyer Air Force Base. The squadron stood alert with its planes there until the end of the Cold War. It deployed crewmembers during the Vietnam War and crews and airplanes during Desert Storm, although the squadron itself remained at its home station.