339th Bombardment Squadron
The 339th Bombardment Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit. Its was last assigned to the 96th Bombardment Wing, stationed at Dyess Air Force Base, Texas, where it was inactivated on 15 March 1963. History. World War II. Established as a B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber squadron; trained under Second Air Force. Deployed to European Theater of Operations (ETO), assigned to VIII Bomber Command in England, Flew combat missions over Nazi Germany and Occupied Europe until the German capitulation in May 1945. Reserve operations. Activated as a reserve B-29 Superfortress squadron, 1947. Not equipped or  manned; inactivated due to budget reductions, 1949. Strategic Air Command. Reactivated in 1953 as a Strategic Air Command B-47 Stratojet squadron. Performed global deployments and training until inactivated in 1963. With the phaseout of the B-47 the training aircraft sent to storage at Davis–Monthan and the squadron was inactivated.