KC-135A of the 71st Air Refueling Squadron during Exercise Proud Shield 92
Active
1942–1944; 1955–1994
Country
United States
Branch
United States Air Force
Role
Air Refueling
Motto(s)
Summa Observantia, The Ultimate in Service[note 1]
Decorations
Air Force Outstanding Unit Award
Insignia
71st Air Refueling Squadron Emblem (approved 31 December 1959)[1]
471st Bombardment Squadron Emblem (approved 5 February 1943)[2][note 2]
Military unit
The 71st Air Refueling Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit. It was last assigned to the 458th Operations Group at Barksdale AFB, Louisiana where it was inactivated on 1 April 1994.
The squadron was first activated as the 471st Bombardment Squadron in the summer of 1942 and assigned to the 334th Bombardment Group at Greenville AAB, South Carolina. It operated as a North American B-25 Mitchell aircrew replacement training unit until it was disbanded in the spring of 1944.
The 71st Air Refueling Squadron was activated in 1955 at Dow Air Force Base, Maine and equipped with Boeing KC-97 Stratofreighters. In March 1964 the squadron reequipped with Boeing KC-135 Stratotankers and when Dow closed in 1968, moved to Barksdale AFB, Louisiana, remaining there until it was inactivated as part of reorganization of air refueling squadrons by Air Mobility Command in 1994. While at Barksdale, the two squadrons were consolidated.
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^"USAF Unit Lineage and Honors History, 71st Air Refueling Squadron, Heavy (AFHRA Form 84), updated 16 August 2006" (PDF). Air Force Historical Research Agency. 22 November 1985. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 17 September 2013.
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