358th Bomb Squadron Pins and Buttons

Description: A circular emblem with a yellow border on a black background. It features a pilot with eyes closed, wearing a bomber jacket and goggles, sleeping on a bomb with red and yellow stripes. The bomb rests on yellow clouds. Text in yellow curves around the top and bottom edges of the circle.

Description: A circular emblem featuring a sleeping pilot in flight gear resting on a stylized yellow cloud above a mushroom cloud. A red bomb is positioned below the mushroom cloud. The text "358TH BOMB SQUADRON (HEAVY)" encircles the top, and "303RD BOMB GROUP" encircles the bottom.

Description: Circular emblem featuring a stylized mushroom cloud in yellow and orange, a red bomb with white fins, and a man with a halo sleeping on the cloud. Text curves around the emblem: "358TH BOMB SQUADRON (HEAVY)" on the top and "303RD BOMB GROUP" on the bottom, both in yellow.

Description: The 358th Bombardment Squadron was established in February 1942 as a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber squadron at Pendleton Field, Oregon and assigned to the 303d Bombardment Group. It moved to Gowen Field, Idaho, where it trained under Second Air Force. The squadron deployed to Southern California to fly antisubmarine patrols over the Pacific. The 358th completed training in southwest by August 1942. The ground echelon departed Biggs Field, Texas in August 1942, arriving at Fort Dix on 24 August. It sailed aboard the RMS Queen Mary and arrived in Great Britain on 10 September. The air echelon flew through Kellogg Field, Michigan and Dow Field, Maine before ferrying its planes across the Atlantic. Due to the haste to move heavy bomb

Description: The 358th Bombardment Squadron was established in February 1942 as a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber squadron at Pendleton Field, Oregon and assigned to the 303d Bombardment Group. It moved to Gowen Field, Idaho, where it trained under Second Air Force. The squadron deployed to Southern California to fly antisubmarine patrols over the Pacific. The 358th completed training in southwest by August 1942. The ground echelon departed Biggs Field, Texas in August 1942, arriving at Fort Dix on 24 August. It sailed aboard the RMS Queen Mary and arrived in Great Britain on 10 September. The air echelon flew through Kellogg Field, Michigan and Dow Field, Maine before ferrying its planes across the Atlantic. Due to the haste to move heavy bomb