The 393rd Bomb Squadron, sometimes written as 393d Bomb Squadron, is part of the 509th Bomb Wing at Whiteman AFB, MO. It operates Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit nuclear-capable strategic bomber aircraft. Constituted in 1944 as the 393rd Bombardment Squadron, the unit was the only US Army Air Forces squadron trained for nuclear warfare during World War II. It is the only unit to have used nuclear weapons in combat, when its aircraft dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima on 6 August 1945 and Nagasaki, Japan on 9 August 1945. After the end of WWII, the squadron was involved in the U.S. military atomic bomb testing on Bikini Atoll, and has continued to operate nuclear-capable aircraft since then. This patch says “NUKE EM TIL THEY GLOW, THEN SHOOT EM IN THE DARK”. Found in a little off-the-beaten-path Korean shop and does not come with velcro attached.
