641st Bombardment Squadron

341st Air Refueling Squadron
SAC KC-97s
Active	1943-1945; 1955-1963
Country	United States
Branch	United States Air Force
Role	Air Refueling
Motto(s)	Latin: Potentium Providimus "We Provide Power"
Engagements	European Theater of World War II
Insignia
Patch with 341st Air Refueling Squadron emblem
641st Bombardment Squadron Emblem (approved 21 December 1943)

The 641st Bombardment Squadron was an inactive United States Air Force unit. After training with Douglas A-20 Havocs in the United States the squadron deployed to the European Theater of World War II, where it engaged in combat until the Surrender of Germany. It was last assigned to the 409th Bombardment Group at Westover Field, Massachusetts, where it was inactivated on 7 November 1945.

The 341st Air Refueling Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit. After organizing and training at Castle Air Force Base, California it moved to Dow AFB, Maine. It provided air refueling for Strategic Air Command (SAC) units from Dow until it was inactivated on 1 February 1963 as SAC replaced its tanker force with more modern Boeing KC-135 Stratotankers.

The two squadrons were consolidated in 1985, but the consolidated squadron has not been active. It was converted to provisional status in February 2001 and redesignated 341st Expeditionary Air Refueling Squadron.

The 641st Bombardment Squadron was activated in June 1943 at Will Rogers Field, Oklahoma as one of the four original squadrons of the 409th Bombardment Group. The squadron trained under Third Air Force in Oklahoma, Texas and Louisiana with A-20 Havoc light bombardment aircraft.

The squadron deployed to the European Theater of Operations (ETO) in March 1944, where it became part of IX Bomber Command of Ninth Air Force.

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