Fighter Squadrons Numbered 400 or Greater

434th (Courtesy: HvR. Sandeman)	449th (Courtesy: HvR. Sandeman)	459th (Courtesy: Howard L. Kelley)	485th (Courtesy: HvR. Sandeman)

512th (Courtesy: HvR. Sandeman)	518th (Courtesy: HvR. Sandeman)	529th (Courtesy: Bob Borrell)

Fighter Bomber Squadrons

491st(1) (Courtesy: Howard L. Kelley)	509th(2) (Courtesy: HvR. Sandeman)	514th (Courtesy: Anita Gagnon)	522nd (Courtesy: Charles Dills) Web Site

523rd (Courtesy: Charles Dills)	524nd (Courtesy: Charles Dills)

Night Fighter Squadrons

348th (Courtesy: Bob Borrell)	416th (Courtesy: HvR. Sandeman)	418th (Courtesy: HvR. Sandeman)	421st (Courtesy: Howard L. Kelley)

422nd (Courtesy: HvR. Sandeman)	549th (Courtesy: HvR. Sandeman)

There were many hundreds of squadron patches and I have only a few examples of them. The 1944 Special Issue of the National Geographic Magazine includes several pages of squadron insignia and is a good, but incomplete reference. A more complete reference is the book Combat Squadrons of the Air Force World War II edited by Maurer Maurer, but it can be misleading in that it often uses postwar designs for the illustration of the official squadron insignia. I hope that we will be able to include more images from viewers as they become available.

1. Originally 491st Fighter Squadron and redesignated 491st Fighter Bomber on August 10, 1943. This nonprofit site depicts original insignia of the Second World War and in doing so intends no infringement on the intellectual property rights of the Walt Disney Corporation who hold a copyright on the character in this design.
2. The design is a skull on its side.