- Activated:
- 1 Apr 43
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- Inactive:
- 29 Feb 47 (Became the 4th
Fighter Squadron)
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- 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
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- NOTE: The above Det.
were the squadrons groound echelon only.
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- 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
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- Total
Aircraft Destroyed:
- 20 (18 in the P-61)
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- First
Aircraft Destroyed:
- 7 Oct 44
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- Received
first P-61:
- Sep 44
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- 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
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- Service
Streamers:
- None
-
- Decorations:
- Philippine Presidential
Unit Citation
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- Commanders:
- Maj. Carroll C. Smith 1 Apr
43 to 15 Feb 45
- Capt. William B. Sellers 15
Feb 45 to Nov 45
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- 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
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- Assigned
Aircraft:
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- Serial No.
Unknown
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- P-61 ?-?
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- Serial No.
Unknown
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- P-61 ?-?
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- Serial No.
Unknown
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- P-61 ?-?
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- Serial No.
Unknown
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- P-61 ?-?
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- Serial No.
42-39576
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- P-61 B-1
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- Serial No.
44-5527
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- P-61 A-1
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- Serial No.
42-39757
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- P-61 B-15
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- Aircraft
of Lt Col Whittern
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- Serial No.
Unknown
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- P-61 ?-?
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- Serial No.
4?-??305
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- P-61 B-?
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- Serial No.
42-39661
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- P-61 B-15
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- Markings:
- Diagonal, white bordered,
blue tail band with a yello star and crescent
moon. Squadron emblem by July 1945
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- 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)
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