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286 AIR FORCE COMBAT UNITS OF WORLD WAR I1yards, missile sites, marshalling yards, andairfields; beginning in Oct 1944, concentratedon oil reserves. Received a DUCfor striking telling blows against Germanaircraft production on 11 Jan and 20 Feb1944. In addition to strategic missions,operations included attacks on transportation,airfields, and fortifications priorto the Normandy invasion and on D-Day,Jun 1944; support for ground operationsduring the breakthrough at St Lo in Jul,the siege of Brest in Aug, and the airborneattack on Holland in Sep 1944; participationin the Battle of the Bulge, Dec 1944-Jan 1945, by assaulting transportation targetsand communications centers in thebattle area; and support for the airborneattack across the Rhine in Mar 1945. Returnedto the US after V-E Day. Inactivatedon 28 Aug 1945.Redesignated 401st BombardmentGroup (Very Heavy). Allotted to thereserve. Activated on 26 Jun 1947. Redesignated401st Bombardment Group(Medium) in Jun 1949. Called to activeservice on I May 1951. Assigned to StrategicAir Command. Znactivated on 25Jun 1951.Redesignated 401st Fighter-BomberGroup. Activated on 8 Feb 1954. Assignedto Tactical Air Command andequipped with F-86's.SQUADRONS. 612th: 1943-1945 ; 1947-1951; 1954-. 623th: 1943-1945; 1947-1949; 1954-* 614th: 1943-1945; 1947-1949;'954-. 615th: 1943-1945 ; 1947-1949-STATIONS. Ephrata AAB, Wash, I AprFalls AAB, Mont, Jul-Oct 1943; Deenethorpe,England, c. I Nov 1943-May 1945;Sioux Falls AAFld, SD, c. 1-28 Aug 1945.Brooks Field, Tex, 26 Jun 1947; BiggsAFB, Tex, 27 Jun 194925 Jun 1951. AlexandriaAFB, La, 8 Feb 1954-.COMMANDERS. Col Neil B Harding, c.I Apr 1943; Col Harold W Bowman, Jun1943; Col William T Seawell, Dec 1944-1945. Unkn, I May-25 Jun 1951. ColWalter G Benz Jr, 8 Feb 1954-.CAMPAIGNS. Air Offensive, Europe;Normandy; Northern France; Rhineland;Ardennes-Alsace; Central Europe.DECORATIONS. Distinguished Unit Citations:Germany, 11 Jan 1944; Germany,20 Feb 1944.INSIGNE. Shield: Azure, within a diminutiveborder argent a sheaf of fourlances bend sinisterwise of the last, surmountedby a fess chequy sable and ofthe second overall a bend wavy vert, gules,or and of the first each fimbriated silver.Motto: CAELUM ARENA NOSTRA-The Sky is Our Arena. (Approved 9 Sep1958. This insigne replaced an insigneapproved 22 Apr 1955.)402d FIGHTER GROUPConstituted as 402d BombardmentGroup (Medium) on 20 Apr 1943. Activatedin China on 19 May 1943. Assignedto Fourteenth AF. No squadrons wereassigned and headquarters apparently wasnever fully manned. Disbanded in China1943; Geiger Field, Wash, Jun 1943; Great on 31 Jul 1943. Reconstituted (in Oct
AIR FORCE COMBAT UNITS-GROUPS 2871956) and consolidated with 402d FighterGroup.402d Fighter Group was constituted on24 Sep 1943. Activated in the US onI Oct 1943. Assigned to First AF.Trained replacement pilots for combatwith P-47’s. Disbanded on 10 Apr 1944.Reconstituted and redesignated 402dFighter-Day Group, on 4 Oct 1956. Activatedon 15 Oct 1956. Assigned to TacticalAir Command.SQUADRONS. 320th: 1943-1944; 1956.442d: 1943-1944; 1956. 452d: 1943-1944.538th: 1943. 539th: 1943. 540th: 1943-I944 ; 19567STATIONS. Kunming, China, 19 May-31 Jul 1943. Westover Field, Mass, I Oct1943; Seymour Johnson Field, NC, c. 13Oct 1943; Bluethenthal Field, NC, c. gDec 1943; Bradley Field, Conn, c. 11 Feb-10 Apr 1944. Greenville AFB, Miss, 15OCt 1956.COMMANDERS. Unkn, 19 May-31 Jul1943. Lt Col Joseph L Dickman, unkn-Apr 1944. Capt Charles E Burtner, 15Oct 19567CAMPAIGNS. Asiatic-Pacific Theater.DECORATIONS. None.INSIGNE. None.403d TROOP CARRIER GROUPConstituted as 403d Troop CarrierGroup on 7 Dec 1942 and activated on 12Dec. Trained for overseas duty withC-47’s. Moved to the South Pacific, Jul-Sep 1943, and assigned to Thirteenth AF.Transported men and supplies to forwardareas in the Solomons and flew passengerand cargo routes to New Zealand, Australia,Fiji, and New Caledonia. Movedpersonnel of Thirteenth AF units to theSouthwest Pacific. Supported the NewGuinea and Philippines campaigns bytransporting men and cargo to combatareas, evacuating casualties, and landing ordropping supplies for guerrilla forces.Dropped paratroops at Laguna de Bay,Luzon, on 23 Feb 1945, to free civilian interneesheld by the Japanese. Received aDUC for operations from Apr to Jun 1945when it transported ammunition, food,and other supplies to Eighth Army forcesin Mindanao and often landed on jungleairstrips to evacuate wounded personnel.Moved to Leyte in Jun 1945 and remainedin the Philippines after the war as part ofFar East Air Forces. Ferried occupationtroops to Japan, evacuated prisoners who
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APPENDIX 111:Air Force units, like
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INDEX OF UNITSAn asterisk (") indic
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