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344th
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344th
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2 Oct 1942 – Constituted 344th Fighter Squadron
10
Oct 1942 – Activated
15
Aug1946 – Inactivated
Note: Assignment of the unit once it left Alaska will not be covered.
Assignments
10 Oct 1942 - 15 Aug 1946 – 343rd Fighter Group
Note: Assignment of the unit once it left Alaska will not be covered.
Stations
10
Oct 1942 – Elmendorf Field, Ak
– Detachments operated from:
Ft Randall, Ak - 12 Nov 42
c.
25 Dec 1942 – Ft Randall, Ak
8 Mar - c. 23 May 1943 – Ft Glenn, Ak
– Detachments operated from:
Amchitka, Ak - May - Jul 43
Attu, Ak - c. 12 Jun - Dec 43
25 Jun 1943 - 15 Aug 1946 – Shemya, Ak
Note: Assignment of the unit once it left Alaska will not be covered.
Aircraft
Operations
Defense of Alaska
Oct 42 - Aug
1945
Service
Steamers
None
Campaigns
Aleutian Islands;
Air Combat, Asiatic-Pacific Theater
Decorations
None
Emblem
Over and through a
medium blue disc, wide border orange, piped white, a black aerial
machine gun winged white, in flight, firing shells from cartridge belt,
with muzzle toward sinister chief; eleven empty yellow cartridge cases,
trimmed orange, falling toward base, arranged three, four, and four.
(Approved 13 Jan 1944)
Note: The Emblem at the top of the page
was the unofficial patch that was worn by squadron members. The patch
description above refers to a patch that was officially approved approximatly 15
month after the unit was activated.
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