1107:. This mobilization demonstrated that although mobilizing a wing with dispersed flying units was not a problem when the entire wing was called to active service, mobilizing individual flying squadron and elements to support it proved difficult. To resolve this, the Air Force determined to reorganize its National Guard wings by establishing groups with support elements for each of its squadrons to facilitate mobilization of elements of wings in various combinations when needed. Shortly after the 108th Wing returned to state control in July, the group was again activated as this plan was implemented. The group remained active until December 1974, when the Air Force inactivated groups located on the same station as the wing to which they were assigned.
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front line, was bombed as a demonstration of accuracy, and was left neatly blanked with flame. There was no further lack of confidence. American infantry proceeded to direct our pilots to bomb and strafe just ahead of their front line, and for seven days advanced steadily until their mission of scaling off the
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Floridablanca airfield, west of Fort Stotsenburg, and from there continued attacks on Japanese ground troops, chiefly in the Cagayan Valley in northern Luzon. By the middle of June the enemy forces had disintegrated and scattered so that profitable targets were hard to
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coincided with the opening of the Allied offensive in New Guinea. During the summer of 1943 the P-47 missions were chiefly as cover for bombers in the Lae-Salamaua area, and for transports carrying supplies to the new mountain locked airstrip at Tsili, only a few miles from the
Japanese held Markham
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During the month of April 1945 the 348th net a record for tonnage of bombs dropped on the enemy, with a total of 2091.5 tons. Total ammunition expended was just under two million rounds. So far as is known, this bomb tonnage is the greatest every dropped in one month by any group, either fighter or
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when the
Japanese landed several hundred paratroops on an uncompleted airstrip less than a quarter of a mile from the group's camp, cutting the only road leading from the camp. For several days the camp was isolated between the paratroops on the East and the Japanese patrols on the West. Two men on
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weapon, and it was proposed that it be used to break the deadlock in Zigzag Pass. However the infantry division occupying the west end of the pass was uncertain about the use of the bomb in close support of their troops, for fear of inaccurate bombing. So a
Japanese supply area, well back of their
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Intelligence Squadron is the first Air National Guard squadron that is solely dedicated to providing intelligence instruction and training products to the Air Mobility Command. It is also the first course of its kind in the intelligence community that integrates active duty, Air National
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Tactical Fighter Squadron was withdrawn from the National Guard and inactivated, redesignated the 341st Fighter Squadron and disbanded. The 141st Aero Squadron (Pursuit), which had been demobilized on 19 July 1919 was reconstituted, redesignated the 141st Tactical
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After 18 months in New Guinea the 348th boarded ship and plane for the
Philippines. One squadron, the 460th, arrived several weeks before the other three, and proceeded to roll up an imposing score of enemy planes, shipping, and personnel destroyed, providing cover for convoys, flying patrols,
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Fighter Wing was formed as the headquarters for the 108th Group and its support elements, organized into the 108th Air Base Group, 108th Maintenance and Supply Group and the 108th Medical Group.
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and North China, and the group's P-51s took a constant toll of enemy transportation on water and land before the afternoon of 14 August when the planes of the 348th delivered the last bombs dropped on Japan before the order was given to "cease firing".
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Fighter Squadron (later 141st Fighter Squadron, 141st Fighter-Bomber Squadron, 141st Fighter-Interceptor Squadron: 30 September 1942 β 10 May 1946, c. 26 May 1949 β 1 December 1952, 1 December 1952 β 1 October 1958, 1 October 1962 β 8 September
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Contrary to expectations the
Japanese air forces did not choose to fight, and in the following month only 15 enemy planes were shot down without loss to the 348th in air combat. However, there was an abundance of ground and shipping targets in
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The group's P-47D Thunderbolts began to arrive in Brisbane in the same month, and by the end of July after they had "run in" their engines on local training flights, the group began long-range missions to strike at Japanese targets in
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escorted bombers, attacked enemy airfields, and supporting ground forces. During a three-week period it sank 50,000 tons of enemy shipping, which was slightly more than one-tenth of all the shipping sunk by the entire
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Occasionally the curtain of "unobserved results" would lift. One strike, directed by Filipino guerrillas who set off smoke pots to mark tan enemy bivouac area, was later found to have caused 700 Japanese casualties.
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and extended federal recognition later that year. Two of its World War squadrons, the 341st (now the 141st Fighter Squadron) and 342d (now the 142d Fighter Squadron) were assigned to it, along with the
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the group flew its first fighter-bomber missions. In the early spring of 1944, while the group was at Saidor, fighter-bomber work began in earnest with attacks on the Japanese concentrations in the
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Fighter Squadron, allotted to the Air National Guard and activated in its place. DAF/PRM Letter 719p, Subject: Organization Actions Affecting Certain Air National Guard units, 31 July 1973.
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Valley. The group met its first air combat over Tsili on 16 August 1943, when two squadrons tangled with the fighter cover of an enemy bomber formation, and shot down three aircraft.
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the group entered into one of the most spectacular phases of its overseas career, in a series of fighter sweeps, generally by flights of four planes, over the Japanese stronghold of
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guard post were surprised and killed by an enemy patrol, but the camp defense's prevented any breakthrough and the paratroops were finally wiped out by infantry and tanks.
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bomber, and the accuracy of the bombing attested repeatedly by reports from ground observers. Most of the record tonnage was dropped in the Ipo Dam area northeast of
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attacking a convoy loaded with an estimated 10,000 enemy troops en route to reinforce the Japanese army on Leyte. The squadron's planes were the first of the
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The 140th Cyber Operations Squadron is one of the twelve Air National Guard Cyber Protection Teams that defend networks and systems against threats.
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The group's greatest day, in point of total of enemy planes destroyed, was 14 December 1944 when, in protection of the invasion fleet heading to
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as the Air Force implemented the Objective Wing organization in the Air National Guard. It once again became the flying organization of the
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Early in December 1944, while the group's planes were operating from Taoloban strip, the majority of group personnel were camped inland near
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and was supported by the 208th Air Service Group. In the fall of 1950, the Air National Guard reorganized its combat units under the
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In addition to their primary air refueling mission, the group also supports an Intelligence Squadron and a Contingency Response Group
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for action over New Guinea on 11 October 1943. After leading a flight of four fighters to reconnoiter the enemy base at
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until November 1944, flying patrol and reconnaissance missions and escorted bombers to targets in New Guinea and
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At the time the 348th began ground support operations from San Marcelino, the infantry had taken Subic Bay and
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only a few minutes flight from the Allied invasion force, which landed on Mindoro the following morning.
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for his actions in combat. Over a dozen of the group's pilots became
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1965:. St. Paul, Minnesota: Phalanx Publishing Company, 1992. 108 pages.
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and had started east with the objective of sealing off
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region just ahead of the advancing Australian troops
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heavy bombers in one of the first bomber strikes on
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Fighter groups of the United States Army Air Forces
1972:. Atglen, Pennsylvania: Schiffer Publishing, 1997.
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1992:The Youngest Tigers in the Sky
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702:Lieutenant Colonel Neel Kearby
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314:New Jersey Air National Guard
2737:I Ground Air Support Command
1622:Baugher, Joe (2 June 2023).
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1448:, New Guinea, 26 August 1944
1356:170th Air Refueling Squadron
1341:150th Air Refueling Squadron
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985:, near the state capital of
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520:170th Air Refueling Squadron
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1265:New York Fighter Wing
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964:and allotted to the
936:Summary of Victories
426:Air Mobility Command
336:Per Caelum Victoriae
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2895:Combat Cargo
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2314:24th Pursuit
2286:Combat Cargo
2199:Air Commando
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2978:83d Fighter
2943:52d Fighter
2938:33d Fighter
2928:8th Fighter
2814:Bombardment
2411:Bombardment
2309:8th Fighter
2215:Bombardment
1938:17 December
1891:17 December
1713:. GuardLife
1659:interceptor
1538:, 1965β1974
1255:Assignments
1071:air defense
1059:Air defense
942:W.D. Dunham
796:Clark Field
738:Finschhafen
734:Philippines
673:New Britain
561:Bob Rowland
545:Neel Kearby
414:McGuire AFB
386:Tail stripe
320:Garrison/HQ
147:introducing
3405:Categories
3380:Fourteenth
3375:Thirteenth
2594:Fourteenth
2589:Thirteenth
1956:1450290469
1567:References
1319:Components
1121:108th Wing
772:after the
649:New Guinea
416:entity of
406:108th Wing
357:commanders
350:Commanders
270:New Jersey
258:Allegiance
155:March 2017
130:references
47:improve it
3390:Twentieth
3385:Fifteenth
3280:Incidents
2665:Airfields
2604:Twentieth
2599:Fifteenth
2404:Squadrons
2132:V Fighter
2067:Airfields
1812:3 October
1679:Citations
1630:4 October
1150:tankers.
1146:, flying
823:Subic Bay
742:Hansa Bay
730:Halmahera
629:Weehawken
226:, France.
224:Istres AB
88:summarize
53:talk page
3365:Eleventh
2720:Commands
2579:Eleventh
2127:V Bomber
2120:Commands
1925:70605402
1886:61060979
1761:, p. 590
1757:Maurer,
1744:Maurer,
1735:, p. 423
1731:Maurer,
1695:Maurer,
1550:See also
1520:Aircraft
1442:Noemfoor
1377:Stations
1043:and the
914:Ie Shima
866:firebomb
843:Lingayen
835:Olongapo
669:Noemfoor
641:Brisbane
522:(KC-46A)
463:Overview
367:Insignia
331:Motto(s)
3370:Twelfth
3345:Seventh
2921:Fighter
2584:Twelfth
2559:Seventh
2302:Fighter
2074:Pacific
1717:2 March
1482:Okinawa
1154:Lineage
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1055:units.
1047:of the
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218:Group
132:, but
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3355:Ninth
3340:Sixth
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3259:Other
2746:Wings
2713:Units
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726:Ceram
710:Wewak
696:Wewak
657:341st
653:340th
514:C-32B
478:Units
341:Latin
295:Group
1974:ISBN
1952:ISBN
1940:2016
1929:OCLC
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1911:ISBN
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1882:LCCN
1872:ISBN
1814:2023
1719:2017
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1366:1973
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