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Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war -- John Andrew Holmes |
70th Fighter Squadron(396 total words in this text)(2196 Reads)  Constituted 70th Pursuit Squadron (Interceptor) on 14 Dec 1940. Activated on 1 Jan 1941. Redesignated: 70th Fighter Squadron on 15 May 1942; 70th Fighter Squadron, Single Engine, on 20 Aug 1943; 70th Fighter Squadron, Two Engine, on 24 May 1944. Inactivated on 26 Dec 1945. Redesignated 70th Tactical Fighter Squadron on 8 Sep 1975. Activated on 30 Sep 1975. Redesignated 70th Fighter Squadron on 1 Nov 1991. Assignments 35th Pursuit Group, 1 Jan 1941?15 Jan 1942; US Army Forces in Fiji, 28 Jan 1942; 347th Fighter Group, 3 Oct 1942; 18th Fighter Group, 30 Mar 1943; 347th Fighter Group, 1 Nov?26 Dec 1945. 347th Tactical Fighter Wing, 30 Sep 1975 (attached to 86th Tactical Fighter Wing, 29 Aug?28 Sep 1989); 347th Operations Group, 1 May 1991?. Stations Hamilton Field, CA, 1 Jan 1941?12 Jan 1942; Fiji, 29 Jan 1942 (operated from Guadalcanal, 21 Dec 1942?Apr 1943); Guadalcanal, 6 Apr 1943; New Georgia, 18 Oct 1943; Sansapor, New Guinea, 23 Aug 1944 (operated from Morotai, 9 Nov 1944?16 Jan 1945); Lingayen, Luzon, 19 Jan 1945; San Jose, Mindoro, 26 Feb 1945; Zamboanga, Mindanao, 4 May 1945; Puerto Princesa, Palawan, 10 Nov?26 Dec 1945. Moody AFB, GA, 30 Sep 1975? (deployed at Ramstein AB, Germany, 29 Aug?28 Sep 1989). Aircraft P?36, 1941; P?39, 1942?1944; P?40, 1943; P?38, 1943?1945; RA?24, 1944. F?4, 1975?1987; F?16, 1987?. Operations Air Defense of Fiji, Feb?Dec 1942. Combat in South and Southwest Pacific, 21 Dec 1942?21 Jul 1944, and 9 Sep 1944?9 Aug 1945. Deployed aircraft and personnel to Southwest Asia, 10 Jan?16 Sep 1992. Honors Service Streamers. None. Campaign Streamers. World War II: China Defensive; Guadalcanal; New Guinea; Northern Solomons; Bismarck Archipelago; Western Pacific; Leyte; Luzon; Southern Philippines; Air Combat, Asiatic-Pacific Theater. Armed Forces Expeditionary Streamer. None. Decorations. Distinguished Unit Citation: Philippine Islands, 10?11 Nov 1944. Air Force Outstanding Unit Awards: 1 Jan 1977?30 Apr 1978; 1 May 1978?31 May 1979; 23 Feb 1991?22 Feb 1993. Philippine Presidential Unit Citation (WWII). Emblem On an Ultramarine Blue disc, border Yellow Orange, a knight in armor on the back of a White charger with Yellow Orange wings, galloping toward dexter, while holding a lance in the form of a large, jagged, Yellow Orange lightning flash. MOTTO: WHITE KNIGHTS. Approved on 17 May 1945 (29592 A.C.). |
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1775:
The American Revolution begins as fighting breaks out at Lexington, Massachusetts.
1861: Residents of Baltimore, Maryland, attack a Union regiment while the group makes its way to Washington. 1861: President Lincoln orders a blockade of Confederate ports. 1927: In China, Hankow communists declare war on Chiang Kai-shek. 1938: General Francisco Franco declares victory in the Spanish Civil War. 1943: Waffen SS attack Jewish resistance in the Warsaw ghetto putting down the uprising. 1951: I and IX Corps reached the Utah Line, south of the Iron Triangle. 1951: General MacArthur denounced the Truman Administration before a joint session of Congress for refusing to lift restrictions on the scope of the war. 1952: The U.N. delegation informed the communists that only 70,000 of 132,000 of the prisoners of war held by the United Nations Command were willing to return home. |
