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418th NFS
Activated:
1 Apr 43
Inactive:
29 Feb 47 (Became the 4th Fighter Squadron)
Operating Locations:
Milne bay, New Guinea 02 Nov 43 to 22 Nov 43
Debodura, New Guinea 22 Nov 43 to 28 Mar 44
Finschhafen, New Guinea 28 Mar 44 to 12 May 44
Hollandia, New Guinea 12 May 44 to 28 Sep 44
Det. Wake Island 8 Jun 44 to 18 Aug 44
(beginning of B-25 operations)
Det. Owl Island 16 Sep 44 to 5 Oct 44
Marotu, Halmaheras (N.E. India) 28 Sep 44 to 26 Dec 44
Det. Dulag, Leyte, Philippines 14 Nov 44 to 30 Nov 44
San Jose, Mindoru, Philippines 15 Dec 44 to 26 dec 44
NOTE: The above Det. were the squadrons groound echelon only.
San Jose, Mindoru, Philippines 26 Dec 44 to 26 Jul 45
Det. Sanga Sangs Island, Sulu Arch. Jun 45 to Jul 45
Okinawa 26 Jul 45 to 6 Oct 45
Total Aircraft Destroyed:
20 (18 in the P-61)
First Aircraft Destroyed:
7 Oct 44
Received first P-61:
Sep 44
Operational Aircraft:
P-70 & P-70A: 1943-1944
P-38 F, G & J: 1943-1944
B-25 H: 1944
P-61 A & B: 1944-1945
Service Streamers:
None
Decorations:
Philippine Presidential Unit Citation
Commanders:
Maj. Carroll C. Smith 1 Apr 43 to 15 Feb 45
Capt. William B. Sellers 15 Feb 45 to Nov 45
Victories:
Smith (P-38) Val, Betty
Smith/Porter “Times A Wastin” 2 Irvings 1 Frank 1 Dinah 1 Rufe
Tompkins/Wertin 1 Tony 1 Float Plane
Sorbo/Kerstelle 2 Jakes 1 Val
McQueen/Gordon 2 Tess
Griffitts/Bigler 1 Betty
Whittern/Crain 1 Tess
Ross/Duethman 1 Betty
Ritchie/Wertin 1 Tony
Ellings/Burmar 1 Rufe
Assigned Aircraft:
Markings:
Diagonal, white bordered, blue tail band with a yello star and crescent moon. Squadron emblem by July 1945
Emblems:
Over
and through a blue-green disc, a king bee black and golden orange, wearing a red crown, holding aloft a lighted lantern proper
with the right foreleg, and grasping a gray machine gun in the left foreleg, tip-toeing across a white cloud formation in
base, and peering over the edge with a look of ferocity on his face; a crescent moon and two stars of yellow in background.
(Approved 11 Oct 1943)
421st NFS
Activated:
1 May 43
Inactive:
20 Feb 47 (Became the 68th Fighter Squadron)
Operating Locations:
Milne bay, New Guinea 4 Jan 44 to 27 Jan 44
Det. Wake Island 28 May 44 to 21 Sep 44
Owi Island, Schoutin Island 28 Jun 44 to 25 Oct 44
Tacloban, Leyte, Phillippines 25 Oct 44 to 8 Feb 45
Det.(Air Echelon) Palecliu, Palau Group
3 Dec 44 to 11 Jan 45
San marcelinn Luzan Phillippines Feb 45 to 3 Apr 45
(Ground echelo arrived 3 Feb 45 followed by most of the Air echelon)
Clark Field Luzan, Phillippines 26 Apr 45 to 5 Aug 45
Le Shima, Ryukyus 8 Aug 45 to 25 Nov 45
Total Enemy Aircraft Destroyed:
13 (All with the P-61)
First Enemy Aircraft Destroyed:
7 Jul 44
Received first P-61:
1 Jun 44
Operational Aircraft:
P-70 & P-70A: 1944
P-38 F,G & H: 1944
P-61 A & B: 1944-1945
Service Streamers:
None
Decorations:
Philippine Presidential Unit Citation
Commanders:
Maj. Walter S. Pharr 1 May 43 to 15 May 44
Capt. William T.Bradley 15 May 44 to 2 Jan 45
Capt Paul R Zammer 2 Jan 45 to 15 Jan 45
Lt Dorrie E. Jones 15 Jan 45 to 20 Jan 45
Capt Richard D. Kick 20 Jan 45 to 15 Dec 45
Victories:
Wolf/Allain “Dame de la Nuit” 3 Zekes 1 Sally
Bjorum/Williams 1 Betty 1 Dinah
Lockard/Thorton 2 Toney's
Pahlka/Hulsey 1 Hellen
Jones/Woodring 1 Frank
Smith/Bremer 1 Zeke
Pew/Cutshall 1 Zeke
Rremington/Baze 1 Betty
Emblems:
Over
and through a medium blue disc, border yellow orange edge black, BUGS BUNNY proper, wearing brown aviator's goggles, seated
in cockpit of caricatured tan aircraft, and holding aloft a carrot proper in the right forepaw, focusing a gray spotlight
with white beam with the left forepaw; two gray machine guns emitting fire from muzzle proper in nose of aircraft. (Approved
13 Dec 1943)
547th NFS
Activated:
1 Mar 44
Inactive:
20 Feb 46
Operating Locations:
Oro Bay, New Guinea 5 Sep 44 to 6 Oct 44
Owi Bay, Schouten group 6 Oct 44 to 31 Dec 45
Det. Tacloban, Layte, Phillippines 9 Nov 44 to 11 Jan 45
Det. Mindora, Phillippines Dec 44 to 16 Jan 45
Lingayen, Luzon, Phillippines 16 Jan 45 to 13 Aug 45
Le Shima, Ryukyus 13 Aug 45 to 7 Oct 45
Total Enemy Aircraft Destroyed:
7 (6 in the P-61)
First Enemy Aircraft Destroyed:
25 Dec 44
Received first P-61:
7 Oct 44
Operational Aircraft:
P-38J: 1944-1946
P-70: 1944
P-61 A & B: 1944-1945
Service Streamers:
None
Decorations:
Philippine Presidential Unit Citation
Commanders:
Lt Col William C. Odell 1 Mar 44 to 21 Jul 45
Capt. William C. Behake 21 Jul 45 to 11 Nov 45
Victories:
Raidt (P-38) 1 Tess
Bourque/Rucks “Swing Shift Skipper” 2 Betty's
Schreiber/Rucks 1 Tess
Blackman/Harper 1 Tess
Oakes/Jacqmin 1 Tess
Annis/Detz 1 Hamp
Markings:
Spinners and cowl flaps appear to have been in flight colors
Emblems:
None
6th NFS
Activated:
18
Jan 43 (Was the 6th Fighter Squadron)
Inactive:
20
Feb 47 (Became the 339th Fighter Squadron)
Operating Locations:
Kipapa Gulch, Hawaii 17 Nov 42 to 3 Mar 44
Det. Guadalcanal 258 Feb 43 to 15 Dec 43
Det. New Guineea 18 Apr 43 to 15 Dec 43
John Rodgers
field, Hawaii 03 Mar 44 to 28 Oct 44
Det. Siapan 21 Jun 44 to 1 May 45
Det. Iwo Jima ? to ? Kipapa Gulch, Hawaii 28 Oct 44 to 2 Oct 45
Wheeler Field, Hawaii 02 Oct 45-?
Total Enemy Aircraft Destroyed:
23
(16 in the P-61)
First Enemy Aircraft Destroyed in a P-61:
20 Jun 44
Received first P-61: 1 May 44
Operational Aircraft:
P-36A: 1941-1942
P-40: 1941-1943
P-38: 1942-1943
P-47D: 1942-1943
P-70 & P-70A: 1942-1943
P-61: 1944-1945
Service Streamers:
None
Decorations:
None
Commanders:
Lt.
James R. Watt (Later a Maj.) 27 Sep 41 to 14 Sep 42
Capt.
Sidney F. Wharton 14 Sep 42 to 18 Feb 43
Capt. Victor M. Matar 18 Feb 43 to 11 Apr 43
Capt. Julius E. Alford 12 Apr
43 to 1 May 43
Capt. Victor M. Mahr 1 May 43 to 15 Jun 43
Capt. Julius E. Alford 15 Jun 43 to 7 Jul 43
Maj Victor
M. Mahr 8 Jul 433 to 1 Apr 44
Maj Julius E. Alford 1 Apr 44 to 15 Apr 44
Maj Victor M. Mahr 15 Apr 44 to 15 May 44
Maj
Julius E. Alford 15 May44 to ?
Capt. Mark E. Martin ? to 18 Dec 44
1st Lt. Robert T. Merrill III 18 Dec 44 to 11 Jan
45
Capt. Mark E. Martin 11 Jan 45 to 7 Mar 45
Capt. George W. Mullholland 7 Mar 45 to Oct 45
Victories:
Bennett/Tomlinson
(P-70) 1 Sally
Adams/DiLabbio (P-70) 1 Sally
Van
Bibber (P-38) 2 Hap's
Tuttle (P-38) 1 Betty
Harrell III (P-38) 2 Betty's
Meigs II (P-38) 3 Betty's
Haberman/Mooney
"Moonhappy" 4 Bettys
Eaton/Ketchum "Jap Batty" 2 Betty's
McCumber/Hinz "Midnight Mickey" 2 Betty's
Thomas/Acre "Sleept
Time Gal" 2 Betty's
Evans/DeVita 2 Betty's
Hansen/Wallace 1 Betty
Crumley/Desclos 1 Betty
Ferguson/Ward "The Virgin
Widow" 1 Betty
Szpila/Borges 1 Frances
Markings:
White 2-digit nose emblems in Hawaii 1945
Emblems:
On a circular orange field,a gray skull outlined in black forming the hub of a shaded
spinning propeller done in black. (Approved 8 Jul 1924)
548th NFS
Activated:
10 Apr 44
Inactive: 19 Dec 45
Operating Locations:
Hickam Field, Hawaii 16 Sep 44
to 17 Oct 44
Kipapa Gulch, Hawaii 17 Oct 44 to 26 Jan 45
Det. Siapan 15 Dec 44 to
26 Jan 45
Siapan 26 Jan 45 to 5 Mar
45
Det.(Ground Echelon) Iwo
Jima 28 Frb 45 to 5 Mar 45
Iwo Jima 5 Mar 45 to 12
Jun 45
Le Shima, Ryukyus 12 Jun
45 to 1 Dec 45
Total Enemy Aircraft
Destroyed: 5
First Enemy Aircraft
Destroyed: 22 Jun 45
Received first P-61:
Sep 44
Operational Aircraft: P-70: 1944 P-61 A & B: 1944-1945
Service Streamers: None
Decorations: None
Commanders: Maj. Robert D. Curtiss 16 Apr 44 to 19 Dec 45
Victories:
Shepherd/Shulenberger "Midnight Miss" 1 Tojo
Dames/D'Andrea "Bat Outa Hell II" 1 Rufe
Bradford/Lunt "Midnite
Madness II" 1 Betty
Bertram/Fairweather "Hangar
Lil" 1 Betty
Schultz/Hill 1 Betty
Markings:
Squadron emblem on nose,
with red spinners and cowl flaps
Emblems: On a disc, medium blue border light blue-green,
a caricature black cat with a look of ferocity on face, wearing white gloves and holding in the left forepaw a lighted gray
flashlight emitting yellow beam toward dexter fess, and in the right forepaw a revolver proper, emitting smoke from the barrel
while stalking across a brown fence edged orange, in base, all in front of large, orange, full moon. (Approved Aug 1944)
548th NFS
Activated:
1 May 44
Inactive:
5 Feb 46
Operating Locations:
Kipapa Gulch, Hawaii 20 Oct 44 to 15 Feb 45
Siapan 20 Feb 45 to 20 Mar 45
Det.(Ground Echelon) Iwo Jima 14 Mar 45 to 25 Sep 45
Iwo Jima 20 Mar 45 to 5 Feb 46
Total Enemy Aircraft Destroyed:
1
First Enemy Aircraft Destroyed:
23 Jun 45
Received first P-61:
Oct 44
Operational Aircraft:
P-70: 1944
P-61 A & B: 1944-1946
Service Streamers:
None
Decorations:
None
Commanders:
Maj. Joseph E. Payne 1 May 44 to 25 Sep 45
Captr William R. Charlesworth 25 Sep 45 to 16 Jan 46
Victories:
Gendreau/Chiapinelli 1 Betty
Markings:
Squadron emblem on nose, with painted cowl flaps and spinner
Emblems:
Over
and through an ultra-marine blue disc, border white, charged with a yellow moon, a caricatured gray bat, in flight, winged
black, ribbed red, with look of ferocity on face, and emitting a white flash edged yellow and red from each eye, while grasping
two brown aerial machine guns in the claws. (Approved 17 Jul 1944)
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