10th Flight Test Squadron, US Air Force
10TH FLIGHT TEST SQUADRON, US AIR FORCE
History: Constituted as 10 Pursuit Squadron (Interceptor) on 20 Nov 1940. Activated on 15 Jan 1941. Redesignated as: 10 Fighter Squadron on 15 May 1942; 10 Fighter Squadron (Special) on 28 May 1942; 10 Fighter Squadron (Single Engine) on 21 Jan 1944; 10 Fighter Squadron, Single Engine, on 28 Feb 1944. Inactivated on 7 Nov 1945. Redesignated as 10 Fighter Squadron, Jet, on 16 Dec 1949. Activated in the Reserve on 28 Jan 1950. Redesignated as: 10 Fighter-Interceptor Squadron on 16 Mar 1950; 10 Fighter-Bomber Squadron on 23 Jan 1951. Ordered to active service on 14 Apr 1951. Inactivated on 27 Apr 1951. Activated on 1 Jan 1953. Redesignated as 10 Tactical Fighter Squadron on 8 Jul 1958. Inactivated on 30 Sep 1991. Redesignated as 10 Flight Test Squadron on 1 Mar 1994. Activated on 18 Mar 1994.
Conducted training in fighter tactics, 18 Mar 1942-28 Jan 1944; combat in European Theater of Operations (ETO), 1 May 1944-7 May 1945. Combat in Southwest Asia, Jan-Feb 1991. Performed functional check flights following programmed depot maintenance and major modifications before returning aircraft to active duty, 1994-.
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Origin/meaning
The Emblem was approved on 23 July 1953; modification approved on 17 April 1996.
Literature: Image from Wikimedia Commons. Information from https://www.afhra.af.mil/
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