375th Bombardment Squadron The 375th Bombardment Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit . Its last assignment was with 308th Bombardment Wing stationed at Plattsburgh Air Force Base , New York . History . Activated in early 1942 in Idaho as a long - range B - 24 Liberator bombardment squadron under Second Air Force . For the next three months little training occurred while the unit worked through its growing pains , resolving administrative and personnel acquisition difficulties . Then a totally new problem arose . . . all but four personnel were transferred to the 330th Bombardment Group ! While active on paper , it was not until September that personnel were taken from the 39th Bombardment Group to form a headquarters cadre for the 308th Group , again making it a viable unit . On 29 September the squadron was designated an Operational Training Unit ( OTU ) with Wendover Field , Utah as its home station . The unit was fully manned by November , after receiving personnel from the 18th Replacement Wing . During this time of trials and tribulations in forming a recognizable force , the flying echelon had transferred to Davis - Monthan Field , Arizona , on 20 June for incidental training . The flight crews had been chosen and assigned , having completed their respective training schools ; i . e . , pilot , navigator , bombardier , engineer , radio and gunnery . Members of the 375th had to complete three phases of training prior to moving overseas and entering combat . The flying personnel spent most of October in transition training with the B - 24 , training combat crews as well . Meanwhile , the ground echelon was acquiring , organizing and processing personnel and supplies at Wendover Field . With the training complete and the personnel and supplies processed , the 308th Bomb Group and the 375th BS officially transferred to Fourteenth Air Force in China early in 1943 . The air echelon began flying its ' brand new ' B - 24D Liberators from Morrison Field , Florida on 15 February 1943 . Traveling by way of the South Atlantic Transport Route though Central and South America , the Azores , Central Africa , Arabia and finally India ; while the ground echelon traveled by ship across the Pacific Ocean . The squadron arrived in India and made many trips over the ' Hump ' between India and China to obtain gasoline , bombs , spare parts , and other items they needed to prepare for and sustain their combat operations . The 375th supported Chinese ground forces ; attacked airfields , coal yards , docks , oil refineries and fuel dumps in French Indochina ; mined rivers and ports ; bombed maintenance shops and docks at Rangoon , Burma ; attacked Japanese shipping in the East China Sea , Formosa Straits , South China Sea and Gulf of Tonkin . The squadron moved to India in June 1945 , ferrying gasoline and supplies from there back into China . The unit sailed for the United States , where it was inactivated on 6 January 1946 . Reactivated in Alaska in 1947 as a Strategic Air Command weather reconnaissance squadron . Gathering weather information for combat readiness was an integrated part of strategic aerial reconnaissance . Weather recon , though , was a particularly loose term . There was a constant need for weather information , but weather flights were also a convenient cover for the more covert missions with RB - 29 Superfortress photo - reconnaissance aircraft over the eastern frontier of the Soviet Union . Inactivated in February 1951 . Reactivated a few months later in October with new B - 47E Stratojet swept - wing medium bombers , capable of flying at high subsonic speeds and primarily designed for penetrating the airspace of the Soviet Union . In the early late 1950s , the B - 47 was considered to be reaching obsolescence , and was being phased out of SAC ' s strategic arsenal . B - 47s began being sent to AMARC at Davis - Monthan in July 1959 and the squadron went non - operational . Was inactivated on 25 June 1961 .