page_title: 352d Bombardment Squadron
section_title: Strategic Air Command
hierarchical_section_title: 352d Bombardment Squadron / History / Strategic Air Command
caption_attribution_description: English: 301st Bombardment Wing -- Boeing B-29A-40-BN Superfortress 44-61640. Taken at Smokey Hill AFB, Kansas. Note Triangle-V SAC Tail Code, Eighth Air Force. Aircraft later converted to WB-29A. Assigned to 54th Strategic Reconnaissance Squadron (Medium, Weather) lost Feb 26, 1952.
context_page_description: The 352d Bombardment Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit. It was last assigned to the 301st Bombardment Wing, stationed at Lockbourne Air Force Base, Ohio, where it was inactivated on 8 June 1964.
  During World War II, the 352d Bombardment Squadron was a B-17 Flying Fortress squadron, assigned to the 301st Bombardment Group, Fifteenth Air Force. It earned two Distinguished Unit Citations. The first in 1943, the second in 1944.
  The squadron later earned the Air Force Outstanding Unit Award for the period covering 1 January 1961 to 31 December 1962.
context_section_description: Reactivated in 1946 as a Strategic Air Command Boeing B-29 Superfortressstrategic bombardment squadron.  Deployed to Fürstenfeldbruck AB, Germany, July–August 1948; to RAF Scampton, England, October 1948-January 1949; and to RAF Stations Lakenheath and Sculthorpe, May–November 1950 for "show of force" missions in Europe as a result of the Berlin Blockade by the Soviet Union and rising Cold War tensions in Europe.  Squadron deployed to Far East Air Forces in February 1951, flying combat missions over North Korea; attacking strategic industrial and military targets during the Korean War.
  Returned to the United States in June 1952 and transitioned to the Boeing B-47 Stratojet with the removal of the B-29 as a combat aircraft from the inventory. Moved to Lockbourne AFB in 1958. Added Electronic Countermeasures as an ancillary mission in 1961.
  Unit was inactivated and closed in 1964 with the fleet-wide retirement of the B-47 aircraft.
caption: 301st Bombardment Wing B-29 Superfortress[note 3]
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