page_title: 812th Fighter-Bomber Squadron
hierarchical_section_title: 812th Fighter-Bomber Squadron
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: North American F-86 Sabre während des Flugs English: North American F-86 Sabre in flight
context_page_description: The 812th Fighter-Bomber Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit. Its last assignment was with 482d Fighter-Bomber Group stationed at Dobbins Air Force Base, Georgia.
  During World War II, the squadron was activated in England as the 812th Bombardment Squadron. Its Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress aircraft were equipped with first generation radars to guide other bombardment units to targets obscured by cloud cover over Occupied Europe and Nazi Germany, earning a Distinguished Unit Citation in January 1944. In March 1944, it was removed from combat to focus on training pathfinder aircrews and develop tactics, although its developmental work occasionally required it to fly combat missions. After V-E Day, the squadron returned to the United States and was inactivated.
  The squadron became a reserve organization, serving as a bombardment unit from 1947–1949 and briefly as an airlift unit in 1952. It became a fighter unit in 1955. It was inactivated in 1957 when air force reserve fighter units became troop carrier organizations.
context_section_description: The 812th Fighter-Bomber Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit.  Its last assignment was with 482d Fighter-Bomber Group stationed at Dobbins Air Force Base, Georgia.
  During World War II, the squadron was activated in England as the 812th Bombardment Squadron (Pathfinder). Its Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress aircraft were equipped with first generation radars to guide other bombardment units to targets obscured by cloud cover over Occupied Europe and Nazi Germany, earning a Distinguished Unit Citation in January 1944.  In March 1944, it was removed from combat to focus on training pathfinder aircrews and develop tactics, although its developmental work occasionally required it to fly combat missions.  After V-E Day, the squadron returned to the United States and was inactivated.
  The squadron became a reserve organization, serving as a bombardment unit from 1947–1949 and briefly as an airlift unit in 1952.  It became a fighter unit in 1955.  It was inactivated in 1957 when air force reserve fighter units became troop carrier organizations.
caption: F-86 Sabre, last plane flown by the 812th
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