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506th
FIGHTER GROUP
(Version provisoire - en construction)
46 victoires
457 Fighter Squadron
(10 vict)
Nom | Grade | Unité | Date | Ennemi | Avion d'arme | TOP | Nbr Vict |
AUST ABNER M JR | Captain | 457FTR | 07-16-1945 | - | - | Central Pacific | 3 |
AUST ABNER M JR | Captain | 457FTR | 08-10-1945 | - | - | Central Pacific | 2 |
CARROLL THOMAS W | 1st Lt | 457FTR | 08-03-1945 | - | - | Central Pacific | 1 |
LAWRENCE WILLIAM B JR | Captain | 457FTR | 07-16-1945 | - | - | Central Pacific | 1 |
MURPHEY WESLEY A JR | 1st Lt | 457FTR | 07-16-1945 | - | - | Central Pacific | 1 |
NEWCOMB CHAUNCEY A | 1st Lt | 457FTR | 08-10-1945 | - | - | Central Pacific | 2 |
458 Fighter Squadron
(19 vict)
Nom | Grade | Unité | Date | Ennemi | Avion d'arme | TOP | Nbr Vict |
BAKER J B JR | Captain | 458FTR | 06-23-1945 | - | - | Central Pacific | 1 |
BARNES RICHARD W | Captain | 458FTR | 07-16-1945 | - | - | Central Pacific | 2 |
CARMODY FRANCIS C | Captain | 458FTR | 05-28-1945 | - | - | Central Pacific | 1 |
DAVIDSON HAROLD G | 1st Lt | 458FTR | 06-23-1945 | - | - | Central Pacific | 1 |
FELD RAYMOND | 2nd Lt | 458FTR | 06-10-1945 | - | - | Central Pacific | 1 |
KELSEY JACK A | 1st Lt | 458FTR | 06-23-1945 | - | - | Central Pacific | 1 |
KEMPERT ROY W | 2nd Lt | 458FTR | 06-23-1945 | - | - | Central Pacific | 1 |
LEE QUARTERMAN JR | 1st Lt | 458FTR | 07-08-1945 | - | - | Central Pacific | 1 |
MIDDAUGH VANCE A | 1st Lt | 458FTR | 06-23-1945 | - | - | Central Pacific | 1 |
MIKES EDWARD H JR | Captain | 458FTR | 06-10-1945 | - | - | Central Pacific | 1 |
NOWICK PETER | Captain | 458FTR | 06-10-1945 | - | - | Central Pacific | 2 |
RUBLE MAX E | 1st Lt | 458FTR | 06-23-1945 | - | - | Central Pacific | 1 |
SEEGERS HENRY J JR | 2nd Lt | 458FTR | 06-10-1945 | - | - | Central Pacific | 1 |
SOWERS VAUGHAN E | 1st Lt | 458FTR | 06-10-1945 | - | - | Central Pacific | 1 |
STARIN MYNDRET S | 1st Lt | 458FTR | 07-08-1945 | - | - | Central Pacific | 1 |
STUART EVAN S | 1st Lt | 458FTR | 06-23-1945 | - | - | Central Pacific | 1 |
WHEELER FRANK H JR | 2nd Lt | 458FTR | 06-23-1945 | - | - | Central Pacific | 1 |
462 Fighter Squadron
(7 vict)
Nom | Grade | Unité | Date | Ennemi | Avion d'arme | TOP | Nbr Vict |
BASH DARRELL S | 1st Lt | 462FTR | 06-10-1945 | - | - | Central Pacific | 1 |
BUZZE FRANK C | 1st Lt | 462FTR | 07-19-1945 | - | - | Central Pacific | 1 |
DEJARNETTE THOMAS D | Major | 462FTR | 06-10-1945 | - | - | Central Pacific | 1 |
DINGEE GORDON C | 1st Lt | 462FTR | 07-16-1945 | - | - | Central Pacific | 1 |
JUTRAS WILLIAM J JR | 1st Lt | 462FTR | 07-16-1945 | - | - | Central Pacific | 1 |
LEE FRANCIS L | Captain | 462FTR | 06-10-1945 | - | - | Central Pacific | 1 |
ROSEBROUGH JAMES E | 2nd Lt | 462FTR | 06-10-1945 | - | - | Central Pacific | 1 |
Lineage: Constituted as 506th Fighter Group
on 5 Oct 1944 and activated on 21 Oct. Equipped with P-51 aircraft.
Moved to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater, Feb-Apr 1945, the air echelon
flying patrols from Tinian before joining the rest of the group
on Iwo Jima. The group, assigned to Twentieth AF, flew its first
mission from Iwo on 18 May when it bombed and strafed an airfield
in the Bonin Islands. Afterward attacked airfields, antiaircraft
emplacements, shipping, barracks, radio and radar stations, railway
cars, and other targets in the Bonin Islands or Japan. Also provided
air defense for Iwo and escorted B-29's during bombardment mission
from the Marianas to Japan. Received DUC for defending B-29's
against attack by fighter aircraft during the period 7-10 Jun
1945. Returned to the US in Dec 1945. Inactivated on 16 Dec 1945.
Squadrons : 457th: 1944-1945. Stations : Lakeland AAFld, Fla, 2 Oct 1944-16 Feb 1945; Commanders : Col Bryan B Harper, 25 Oct 1944-1945. Campaigns : Air Offensive, Japan. Decorations : Distinguished Unit Citation: Japan, 7-10 Jun 1945. Insigne : Shield: On a barry wavy of four argent and azure, second bar semee of stars of the first, over-all an escutcheon, per pale argent and or, a crest of a stylized wing of the first, fimbriated of the second, the escutcheon surmounting a sword bendwise, hilt and pommel or, blade of the last, shaded gules; on a chief of the second, a sphere argent, land areas vert, over two lightning flashes in saltire gules, fimbriated of the first. (Approved 21 Jul 1955.) |
Source :
STARS & BARS - Frank Olynyk - Grub Street Editions
http://afhra.maxwell.af.mil/index.asp