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422 AIR FORCE COMBAT UNITS OF WORLD WAR I1bardment operations from Feb to Aug1945. Redesignated 314th CompositeWing in Jan 1946. Assigned to Far EastAir Forces. Moved to Japan in Jun 1946.Inactivated on 20 Aug 1948.Redesignated 314th Air Division. Activatedin Japan on I Dec 1950. Assignedto Far East Air Forces. Provided air defensefor Japan and logistic support forcombat operations in Korea. Inactivatedin Japan on I Mar 1952.Activated in Korea on 15 Mar 1955.Assigned to Far East Air Forces.COMPONENTS. Groups. 3d Bombard-ment: 1946-1948. 29th Bombardment:1944-1946. 29th Bombardment: 1944-1946. 35th Fighter: 1946-1948. 39thBombardment: 1944-1945. 49th Fighter:1946-1948. 330th Bombardment: 194-1945. Wings. 35th Fighter: 1951-1952.58th Fighter: 1g55-. 374th Troop Carrier:1950-1951. 437th Troop Carrier: 1950-1951. __STATIONS. Peterson Field, Colo, 23 AprgDec 1944; North Field, Guam, 16 Jan1945; Johnson AB, Japan, 15 Jun 1946-20Aug 1948. Nagoya, Japan, I Dec 1950-1Mar 1952. Osan-Ni, Korea, 15 Mar 1g55-.COMMANDERS. Brig Gen Roger MRamey, I Jun 1944; Lt Col Hewitt TWheless, 15 Jun 1944; Col John G Fowler,24 Jun 1944; Brig Gen Thomas S Power,29 Aug 194; Col Carl R Storrie, 23 Jul1g45-unkn; Brig Gen Jarred V Crabb, c.Jun 1946; Col Clarence D Wheeler, 30 Jul1946; Brig Gen David W Hutchison, 23Aug 1946; Brig Gen Herbert B Thatcher,18 Feb 1947; Col Edward H Underhill, c.Apr 1947-1948. Brig Gen Delmar TSpivey, I Dec 1950-1 Mar 1952. Col WilliamW Momyer, 35 Mar 1955; ColThomas L Mosley, c. Sep 1955-.CAMPAIGNS. Air Offensive, Japan ;Western Pacific.DECORATIONS. None.INSIGNE. .On an ultramarine blue disc,in sinister base, a globe, proper, with silverwater areas and brown land areas, fimbriatedgold, winged at dexter by a stylizedwing of the last, charged with four aerialbombs gules palewise, points to base.Motto: DESTRUCTIn, AB ALTO-Destruction from Above. (Approved 20Jan 1945. This insigne was modified gMay 1956.)315th BOMBARDMENT WINGConstituted as 315th BombardmentWing (Very Heavy) on 7 Jul 1944 and
AIR FORCE COMBAT UNITS-WINGSactivated on 17 Jul. Moved to Guam,Mar-Apr 1945. Assigned to TwentiethAF. Engaged in very heavy bombardmentoperations from Jun to Aug 1945.Redesignated 315th Composite Wing inJan 1946. Assigned to Far East Air Forces.Moved to Japan in May 1946. Znactivatedon 20 Aug 1948.Redesignated 315th Air Division (CombatCargo). Activated in Japan on 25 Jan1951. Assigned to Far East Air Forces.Participated in aerial supply and evacuationoperations for United Nations forcesin Korea, 1951-1953. Assisted the Frenchin Indochina, 1953-1954.COMPONENTS. Groups. 8th Fighter:1946-1947. 16th Bombardment: 1944-1946. 38th Bombardment : 1946-1948.jyst Bombardment: 1944-1946. 5ozstBombardment : 1944-1946. 502d Bombardment:1944-1946. Wings. 3IjthTroop Carrier: 1952-1954. 374th TroopCarrier: 1951-. 403d Troop Carrier: 1952.437th Troop Carrier: 1951-1952. 483dTroop Carrier: 1954-.423STATIONS. Peterson Field, Colo, 17 Jul19447 Mar 1945; Northwest Field, Guam,5 Apr 1945; Ashiya, Japan, 30 May 1946;Itazuke, Japan, 3 Sep 1946-20 Aug 1948.Ashiya, Japan, 25 Jan 1951; Fuchu, Japan,4 Feb 1951; Tachikawa, Japan, 24 Apr1954-.COMMANDERS. Lt Col Robert A Koeper,28 Jul 1944; Lt Col Stanley A Zidiales, 11Aug 1944; Brig Gen Frank A ArmstrongJr, 18 Nov 1944; Col Leland S Stranathan,25 Jan 1946; Col Vincent M'Miles Jr, 15Apr 1946; Col Hugh A Parker, c. Sep 1946;Col Travis M Hetherington, 7 Jun 1947;Col Joshua H Foster Jr, 19 Jun 1948; ColMarden M Munn, Jul-20 Aug 1948. MajGen William H Tunner, 25 Jan 1951; BrigGen John P Henebry, 8 Feb 1951; ColCecil H Childre, 26 Feb 1952; Maj GenChester E McCarty, 10 Apr 1952; Ma)Gen Russell L Waldron, 3 Dec 1g54-.CAMPAIGNS. World War ZZ: Air Offensive,Japan; Eastern Mandates; WesternPacific. Korean War: 1st UN Counteroffensive;CCF Spring offensive; UNSummer-Fall Offensive ; Second KoreanWinter; Korea Summer-Fall, 1952;Third Korean Winter; Korea Summer-Fall, 1953.DECORATIONS. Republic of Korea PresidentialUnit Citation: I Jul 1951-27 Jul1953.INSIGNE. A white disc charged in basewith a medium blue representation of Mt.Fujiyama, between a jagged lightningflash in dexter fesse and a like flash insinister fesse of the last, each passingthrough a yellow, quarter moon, all within
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INDEX OF UNITSAn asterisk (") indic
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