on 1 February 1950 Redesignated 524th Strategic Fighter Squadron on 20 January 1953 Redesignated 524th Fighter-Bomber Squadron on 1 July 1957 Redesignated 524th Tactical Fighter Squadron on 1 July 1958 Redesignated 524th Tactical Fighter Training Squadron on 8 July 1980 Redesignated 524th Fighter Squadron on 1 November 1991. Inactivated on 20 September 2007 Redesignated 524th Special Operations Squadron on 23 September 2009 Activated on 1 October 2009 Assignments 27th Bombardment (later, 27th Fighter-Bomber; 27th Fighter) Group Attached on 15 January 1941 Assigned 14 August 1941 – 7 November 1945 Ground echelon attached to: 5th Interceptor Command as infantry unit: 2 January – 9 April 1942 27th Fighter (later, 27th Fighter-Escort) Group, 20 August 1946 (attached to 136th Fighter-Bomber Wing, 30 June 1951 – 12 August 1951, 27th Fighter-Escort Wing, 25 August 1951 – 15 June 1952) 27th Fighter-Escort (later, 27th Strategic Fighter; 27th Fighter-Bomber; 27th Tactical Fighter; 27th Fighter) Wing, 16 June 1952 (attached to 50th Fighter-Bomber Wing, 17 June 1959 – 8 July 1959) Turkish United States Logistics Command, 10 February 1961 – 16 June 1961 4158th Strategic Wing, 30 October 1961 – 14 November 1961 2d Air Division, 9–c. 27 June 1963 and 21 January–19 March 1964 39th Air Division, 1 December 1964 – 28 March 1965 27th Operations Group, 1 November 1991 – 20 September 2007. 27th Special Operations Group, 1 October 2009 492d Special Operations Group, May 2017 Stations Hunter Field, Georgia, 15 January–19 October 1941 Fort William McKinley, Luzon, Philippines, 20 November 1941 San Marcelino, Luzon, Philippines, 22 December 1941 (Air echelon operated from Archerfield Airport, Brisbane, Australia, 24 December 1941 – 5 February 1942) Limay, Luzon, Philippines, 25 December 1941 Bataan, Luzon, Philippines, 5 January 1942 (Air echelon operated from: Malang, Java, Netherlands East Indies, 18 February–c. 1 March 1942, Archerfield Airport 10–24 March 1942) Charters Towers Airport, Australia, Apr–4 May 1942; Hunter Field, Georgia, 4 May 1942 Key Field, Mississippi, 15 July 1942 Hattiesburg Army Airfield, Mississippi, 15 August 1942 Harding Army Air Field, Louisiana, 26 October 1942 – 21 November 1942 Ste-Barbe-du-Tlelat Airfield, Algeria, 26 December 1942 Nouvion Airfield, Algeria, 7 January 1943 Ras el Ma, French Morocco, 6 April 1943 Korba Airfield, Tunisia, 4 June 1943 Ponte Olivo Airfield, Sicily, 18 July 1943 San Antonio, Sicily, 3 September 1943 Rome Ciampino Airport, Italy, 18 September 1943 Guado Airfield, Italy, 4 November 1943 Pomigliano Airfield, Italy, 19 January 1944 Castel Volturno, Italy,