751st BOMBARDMENT SQUADRON (H)

Acceptance of the 751st Bomb Squadron emblem

INFORMATION

Lineage

Constituted 751st 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

Over and through a light pastel blue  disc, flecked with white clouds, border green, a white mountain goat, outlined black, leaping in medium blue arc from sinister base through center of green cross hairs toward dexter, and leaving large, jagged, red and white impact mark emanating from horns, all in front of a large, yellow aerial bomb following trajectory of mountain gaot’s leap. (Approved 19 Jan 1945)

751st design emblem by corporal Lester Fried

Commendations to corporal Lester Fried for designing the 751st insignia