It earned Two Distinguished Unit Citations while serving in the Mediterranean Theater of Operations, inactivating in Italy after the end of the war.

The squadron trained with the Royal Flying Corps in Scotland from March to August 1918,[3] then moved to France.

and it became operationally ready as a pursuit squadron in the United States Second Army just as hostilities ceased in November 1918.

After the Pearl Harbor Attack, the squadron initially assigned to antisubmarine duty over the Atlantic Coast.

Missions flown included bombing such targets as marshalling yards, aerodromes, troop concentrations, bridges, docks, and shipping.

[2] The squadron moved to Italy in December 1943[1] and continued operations as part of Fifteenth Air Force.

It engaged primarily in long-range bombardment of strategic targets in Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Austria, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Rumania, and Greece.

[2] This article incorporates public domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency