- Activated:
- 1 May 43
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- Inactive:
- 20 Feb 47 (Became the 68th
Fighter Squadron)
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- 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
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- Total Enemy
Aircraft Destroyed:
- 13 (All with the P-61)
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- First Enemy
Aircraft Destroyed:
- 7 Jul 44
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
-
- Assigned
Aircraft:
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- Serial No.
Unknown
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- P-61 ?-?
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- Serial No.
42-5502
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- P-61 A-2
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- Markings:
- One aircraft carried a
yellow spinner and cowl flaps
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- 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)
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