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340 AIR FORCE COMBAT UNITS OF WORLD WAR I1on I Feb 1953. Assigned to Tactical AirCommand. Used C-46 and C-119 aircraft.SQUADRONS. 776th: 1943-1945; 1g53-.777th: 1943-1945; 19537 778th: ‘943-1945; I953-* 779th: 1943-1945; 1955-*STATIONS. Wendover Field, Utah, IAug 1943; Gowen Field, Idaho, 22 Aug1943; Pocatello AAFld, Idaho, 2 Oct 1943-g Feb IW; Pantanella Airfield, Italy, Mar1944; Gioia, Italy, 21 Apr 1944; PantanellaAirfield, Italy, c. I Jun 1g44-c. May 1945;Waller Field, Trinidad, Jun-31 Jul 1945.Lawson AFB, Ga, I Feb 1953; Pope AFB,NC, 16 Sep 1g54-.COMMANDERS. Unkn, I Aug-2 Sep1943; Col Marshall Bonner, 2 Sep 1943;Col Arnold L Schroeder, 30 Jun 1944; ColA J Bird Jr, 13 Mar 1g45-unkn. Col JamesA Evans, c. I Feb 1953; Col Charles FFranklin, 1954; Lt Col Adam A Reaves,1955-.CAMPAIGNS. American Theater; AirCombat, EAME Theater; Air Offensive,Europe; Rome-Arno; Normandy; NorthernFrance; Southern France; NorthApennines; Rhineland; Central Europe;Po Valley.DECORATIONS. Distinguished Unit Citations:Vienna, Austria, 8 Jul 194; Pardubice,Czechoslovakia, [ 241 Aug 1944.INSIGNE. Shield: Azure, surmountinga cloud argent, an American eagle descendant,wings, endorsed proper, betweenhis beak four lightning streaks, two andtwo gules, speed lines of the first all inclosedby two bendlets sinister vert, edgedor. Motto: CERTISSIMUS IN IN-CERTISMost Certain (in the sense ofunerring or dependable) in Uncertainties.(Approved 15 Apr 1954.)465th BOMBARDMENT GROUPConstituted as 465th BombardmentGroup (Heavy) on 19 May 1943. Activatedon I Aug 1943. Prepared for dutyoverseas with B-24’s. Moved to the Mediterraneantheater, Feb-Apr 1944; the airechelon received additional training inTunisia before joining the ground echelonin Italy. Assigned to Fifteenth AF.Entered combat on 5 May 1944 and servedprimarily as a strategic bombardment organizationuntil late in Apr 1945. Attackedmarshalling yards, dock facilities,oil refineries, oil storage plants, aircraftfactories, and other objectives in Italy,France, Germany, Czechoslovakia, Aus-\
AIR FORCE COMBAT UNITS-GROUPS 341tria, Hungary, and the Balkans. On twodifferent missions-to marshalling yardsand an oil refinery at Vienna on 8 Jul1g44and to steel plants at Friedrichshafen on 3Aug 1g44-the group bombed its targetsdespite antiaircraft fire and fighter oppesition, being awarded a DUC for each ofthese attacks. Other operations includedbombing troop concentrations and bivouacareas in May 1944 to aid the Partisans inYugoslavia; attacking enemy troops andsupply lines to assist the drive towardRome, May-Jun 1944; striking bridges, raillines, and gun emplacements prior to theinvasion of Southern France in Aug 1944;bombing rail facilities and rolling stock inOct 1944 to support the advance of Russianand Rumanian forces in the Balkans;and hitting troops, gun positions, bridges,and supply lines during Apr 1945 in supportof Allied forces in northern Italy.Moved to the Caribbean area in Jun 1945.Assigned to Air Transport Command.Znactivated in Trinidad on 31 Jul 1945.Redesignated 465th Troop CarrierGroup (Medium). Activated in the USon I Feb 1953. Trained with (2-119’s.Moved to France in Dec 1953 to becomepart of United States Air Forces in Europe.SQUADRONS. 780th: 1943-1945 ; I953-.78ISt: 1943-1945; 1953-. 782d: 1943-1945;1953-. 783d: 1943-1945.STATIONS. Alamogordo AAFld, NM, IAug 1943; Kearns, Utah, Sep 1943;McCook AAFld, Neb, c. 5 Oct 1943-1 Feb1944; Pantanella Airfield, Italy, Apr 1944-Jun 1945; Waller Field, Trinidad, 15 Jun-31 Jul 1945. Donaldson AFB, SC, I Feb30 Nov 1953; Toul/Rosiere AB, France,Dec 1953; Evreux AB, France, c. 20 May1955-.COMMANDERS. Col Elmer J Rogers Jr,24 Aug 1943; Col Charles A Clark Jr, 13Mar 1944; Lt Col Joshua H Foster, I Dec1944; Lt Col William F Day Jr, 26 Apr1g45-unkn. Maj Clifford F Harris, Feb1953; Col Earl W Worley, c. Mar 1953;Lt Col James D Barlow, 10 May 1954; ColJames A Evans Jr, 19 Sep 1954; Col JamesD Barlow, 7 Apr 1g55-.CAMPAIGNS. American Theater ; AirCombat, EAME Theater; Air Offensive,Europe; Rome-Arno; Normandy; NorthernFrance; Southern France; NorthApennines ; Rhineland; Central Europe;Po Valley.DECORATIONS. Distinguished Unit Citations:Vienna, Austria, 8 Jul 1944; Germany,3 Aug 1944.INSIGNE. Shield: Per bend gules andvert, a bend argent charged with a bendletazure, between a wing of the third and acompass proper (bezant, with diaperinggreen, bordered argent, thereover a fourpointedstar compass, gules and azure).Motto: ONUS FERENS VITAM-CargoCarrying Life. (Approved I Jun 1955.)466th BOMBARDMENT GROUPConstituted as 466th BombardmentGroup (Heavy) on 19 May 1943. Activatedon I Aug 1943. Prepared for dutyoverseas with B-24’s. Moved to England,
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