page_title: 743d Bombardment Squadron
hierarchical_section_title: 743d Bombardment Squadron
caption_attribution_description: English: "Dazzlin' Dutchess and the Ten Dukes" B-24H-10-CF Liberator s/n 42-64500 743rd Bombardment Squadron, 455th Bombardment Group, 15th Air Force. 21 April 1944
context_page_description: The 743d Bombardment Squadron was first activated in June 1943. After training in the United States with the Consolidated B-24 Liberator bombers, the 743d deployed to the Mediterranean Theater of Operations, participating in the strategic bombing campaign against Germany. It earned two Distinguished Unit Citations for its combat operations. Following V-E Day, it remained in Italy without its flight echelon until inactivating in September 1945
  The squadron was activated at Sheppard-Kell Municipal Airport, Texas in the reserve in 1947, but apparently was not fully manned or equipped before inactivating in June 1949, when reserve flying operations at Sheppard ended.
context_section_description: The 743d Bombardment Squadron was first activated in June 1943. After training in the United States with the Consolidated B-24 Liberator bombers, the 743d deployed to the Mediterranean Theater of Operations, participating in the strategic bombing campaign against Germany.   It earned two Distinguished Unit Citations for its combat operations.  Following V-E Day, it remained in Italy without its flight echelon until inactivating in September 1945
  The squadron was activated at Sheppard-Kell Municipal Airport, Texas in the reserve in 1947, but apparently was not fully manned or equipped before inactivating in June 1949, when reserve flying operations at Sheppard ended.
caption: "Dazzlin' Dutchess and the Ten Dukes" of the 743d Squadron[note 1]
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