The 429th Attack Squadron is a pure companion squadron, location at Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico. It is geographically separated from its parent 926th Wing at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada.
The squadron was antecedently the 429th Bombardment Squadron, a Boeing B-47 Stratojet one based at Hunter Air Force Base, Georgia, where it was inactivated on 1 January 1962.
The squadron was first systematic during World War I as the 41st Aero Squadron, and subserve in France during that war before being demobilized in 1919. In 1924 it was joined with the 41st School Squadron, which had been organic in 1922. The squadron puisne born again to the survey dismission as the 41st Observation Squadron. During World War II, as the 429th Bombardment Squadron, it was a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress squadron, attribute to the 2d Bombardment Group. It earned Two Distinguished Unit Citations while serving in the Mediterranean Theater of Operations, deactivate in Italy after the destruction of th
