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Constituted 301st Fighter Squadron on 4 July 1942. Activated on 13 October 1942. Inactived on 19 October 1945. Activated on 1 July 1947. Inactivated on 1 July 1949.
332nd Fighter Group. 13 October 1942 - 19 October 1945. 332nd Fighter Group, 1 July 1947 - 1 July 1949.
Tuskegee, Alabama, 13 October 1942; Selfridge Field. Michigan, 29 March 1943; Oscoda, Michigan, 21 May 1943; Selfridge Field, Michigan, 10 July - 23 December 1943; Montecorvino, Italy, 8 February 1944, Capodichino, Italy, 15 April 1944; Ramitelli Airfield, Italy, 18 May 1944; Cattolica, Italy, c. 4 May 1945; Lucera, Italy, c. 18 July - September 1945; Camp Kilmer, New Jersey, 17 - 19 October 1945; Lockbourne Army Air Base, Ohio, 1 July 1947 - 1 July 1949.
Combat in Mediterranean Theater of Operations and European Theater of Operations, 15 February - 26 April 1945. Service Streamers: American Theater.
Rome-Arno; Normandy; Northern France; Southern France; Norht Apennines; Rhineland; Central Europe; Po Valley; Air Combat, EAME Theater. Decorations: Distinguished United Citiation: Germany, 24 March 1945.
On a light turquoise blue disc, edged black, a carucatyred cat wearing a red cape, brown aviator's hellmet and white goggles piloting a grey, .50 caliber aerial machine gun with tail, winged yellow orange, with an auxiliary gray wing tank under each wing, all in flight toward dexter, in front of a large, white cloud formation (Approved 29 June 1945)
P-39, 1943 - 1944; P-40, 1943 - 1944; P-47, 1944; P-51, 1944 - 1945. |
301st Fighter Squadron