750th BOMBARDMENT SQUADRON (H)
750th emblem 317th emblem
According to the Institute of Heraldry the 750th Bombardment Squadron never had their emblem approved by the Quartermaster General. It could have been overlooked and as mister Will Fluman said “lots of things were overlooked in ‘the time of war’. According to corporal Lester Fried, who designed the other emblems, the 750 “never got around to asking me to design one for them so I missed a ‘grand slam'”. The group probably choose another emblem that was already approved but for another Bombarardment Group. The Institute of Heraldry holds the approval of the emblem for the 317th Bombardment Group which belonged to the 88th Bombardment Group (H). This group was activated on 15 July 1943 but was disbaned on 1 May 1944. The group was equipped with B-17 bombers and was based in the pacific. It was later used as an Operational Training Unit and in December of 1942 it became a replacement training unit. The group and its four squadrons (316th, 317th, 318th and 319th Bombardment Squadron) were all inactivated on 1 May 1944.
On March 19 1943, letter shown below, the emblem for the 317th Bombardment Sqaudron is approved.
EMBLEM
On a yellow disc, thin border red, piped white, a rattlesnake preparing to strike affronte proper, coiled about a green aerial bomb dropping to Dexter base, as per record drawing.
Letter of approval 19 March 1943
Official drawing of the 317th Bombardment Squadron emblem
INFORMATION
Lineage
Constituted 750th Bombardment Squadron (Heavy) on 19 May 1943. Activated on 1 July 1943. Inactivated on 28 August 1945.
Assignments
457th Bombardment Group, 1 July 1943 – 28 August 1945
Stations
Geiger Field, Wash, 1 July 1943; Rapid City AAB, SD, 9 July 1943; Ephrata AAB, Wash, 28 October 1943; Wendover Field, Utah, 6 December 1943 – 1 January 1944; Glatton, England, 28 January 1944 – June 1945; Sioux Falls AAFld, SD, July 28 – August 1945
Aircraft
B-17, 1943 – 1945
Operations
Combat in ETO, 21 February 1944 – 20 April 1945
Service Streamers
None.
Campaigns
Air Offensive, Europe; Normandy; Northern France; Rhineland; Ardennes-Alsace;Central Europe.
Decorations
None
Emblem
None