- Activated:
- 1 May 44
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- Inactive:
- 5 Feb 46
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- 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
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- Total Enemy
Aircraft Destroyed:
- 1
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- First Enemy
Aircraft Destroyed:
- 23 Jun 45
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- Received
first P-61:
- Oct 44
-
- Operational
Aircraft:
- P-70: 1944
- P-61 A & B: 1944-1946
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- Service
Streamers:
- None
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- 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
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- Victories:
- Gendreau/Chiapinelli 1
Betty
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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. 42-5614
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P-61 A-11
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Serial
No. 42-39373
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P-61 A-10
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Serial
No. 42-39406
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P-61 B-2
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Serial
No. 42-39407
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P-61 B-1
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Serial
No. 42-39412
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P-61 B-2
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Serial
No. 42-39413
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P-61 B-2
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Serial
No. 42-39423
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P-61 B-1
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Serial
No. 42-39424
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P-61 B-2
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Serial
No. 42-39426
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P-61 B-2
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Serial
No. 42-39430
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P-61 B-2
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Serial
No. 42-39432
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P-61 B-2
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Serial
No. 42-39455
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P-61 B-2
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Serial
No. 42-39474
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P-61 B-1
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Serial
No. 42-39477
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P-61 B-1
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Serial
No. 42-39481
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P-61 B-1
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Serial
No. 42-39494
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P-61 B-1
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Serial
No. 42-39495
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P-61 B-2
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Serial
No. 42-39501
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P-61 B-6
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Serial
No. 42-39503
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P-61 B-6
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Serial
No. 42-39504
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P-61 B-6
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Serial
No. 42-39516
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P-61 B-6
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Serial
No. 42-39527
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P-61 B-6
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Serial
No. 42-39554
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P-61 B-10
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Serial
No. 42-39555
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P-61 B-10
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Serial
No. 42-39631
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P-61 B-15
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Serial
No. 42-39632
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P-61 B-15
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Serial
No. 42-39633
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P-61 B-15
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- Markings:
- Squadron emblem on nose,
with painted cowl flaps and spinner
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- 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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