54thFighter Squadron
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Courtesy - USAF Office of History
20 Nov
1940 – Constituted 54th Pursuit Squadron (Interceptor)
15 Jan
1941 – Activated
15 May
1942 – Redesignated 54th Fighter Squadron
21 Mar
1946 – Inactivated
Assignments
15 Jan
1941 – 55th Pursuit (later Fighter) Group
31 May
– 11 Sep 41 – Attached to XI Fighter Command
11 Sep
1942 – 21 Mar 1946 – 343d Fighter Group
Stations
15 Jan
1941 – Hamilton Field, Ca
22 May
1941 – Portland AB, Or
22 Jan
– 25 May 1942 – Paine Field, Wa
31 May
– ca 24 Aug 1942 – Elmendorf Field, Ak
ca 6 Jun
– ca 31 Jun 1942 – Detachment at Ft Randall, Ak
ca 6 Jun
– ca 19 Sep 1942 – Detachment at Ft Glenn, Ak
ca 31
Aug 1942 – Adak, Ak
12 Mar
1943 – Amchitka, Ak
ca 18
Oct 1943 – Shemya, Ak
ca 20
Nov 1943 – 8 Mar 1946 – Ft Lawton, Wa
Aircraft
1941 –
P-36, P-40, P-43
1942–
P-36, P-40, P-43, P-38
1943
– F-5, P-38
1944
– P-38
1945
– P-38
Operations
Air Defense of Alaska during WWII
Service
Steamers
None
Campaigns
Aleutian Islands, Air Combat, Asiatic-Pacific Theater
Decorations
None
Emblem
On a medium blue disc, a conventionalized
leopard yellow orange, trimmed black, tongue and eye red, teeth white,
wearing white boxing gloves, and striking and splitting a red aerial bomb,
trimmed yellow; white impact marks at point of blow. (Approved 2 Sep 1943)
54th
FS Photographs
11th
Attu (Alexai Point), Amchitka, Elmendorf
18th Elmendorf Field (21 Feb 41), later Attu (Casco Cove)
42nd Kodiak, later Adak
54th Attu (Alexai Point, Casco Cove)
56th Nome, later Fort Richardson
57th Fort Richardson, later Kodiak
344th
Attu (Alexai Point)
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