Lineage
- Constituted 11th Reconnaissance Squadron (Light) on 20 November 1940
- Activated on 15 January 1941
- Redesignated: 91st Bombardment Squadron (Light) on 14 August 1941
- Redesignated: 524th Fighter-Bomber Squadron on 23 August 1943
- Redesignated: 524th Fighter Squadron, Single Engine, on 30 May 1944
- Inactivated on 7 November 1945
- Activated on 20 August 1946
- Redesignated: 524th Fighter Squadron, Two Engine, on 22 July 1947
- Redesignated: 524th Fighter Squadron, Jet, on 1 December 1949
- Redesignated: 524th Fighter-Escort Squadron 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.
- Deactivated August 2007
- Redesignated: 524th Special Operations Squadron 2010
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Famous quotes containing the word lineage:
“I declare
Two lineages electrify the air,
That will like pennons from a mast
Fly over sleep and life and death
Till sun is powerless to decoy
A single seed above the earth:
Lineage of sorrow: lineage of joy....”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)