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The squadron remained in the Far East and as the 39th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron was part of the air defenses of Japan when North Korea invaded South Korea. The 39th earned two more DUCs and a Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation during combat in Korea .
After the attack on Pearl Harbor, the squadron was deployed to Australia and then to Port Moresby in early 1942. Lynch downed three Japanese planes while flying the P-39, and in June the squadron (now redesignated the 39th Fighter Squadron) was selected to be the first Fifth Air Force squadron to be reequipped with the new Lockheed P-38 ...
Inactivated on 7 November 1945 - Redesignated 191st Fighter Squadron 408th Fighter Squadron: Alexandria Army Air Base: P-51: Inactivated on 7 November 1945 - Redesignated 192d Fighter Squadron 409th Fighter Squadron: Alexandria Army Air Base: P-51: Inactivated on 7 November 1945 - Redesignated 194th Fighter Squadron 410th Fighter Squadron ...
4th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron: attached 10 August 1954 – 1 March 1955, assigned 1 March 1955 – 20 June 1965; 45th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron: 25 April 1960 – 15 January 1968; 67th Tactical Fighter Squadron: 15 December 1967 – 15 January 1968; 339th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron: 1 March 1955 – 15 January 1958
Re-constituted in the Army Air Service as the 36th Pursuit Squadron on 24 March 1923; [34] Re-designated: 36th Fighter Squadron on 15 May 1942; fought in Pacific Theater during World War II; Korean War 1950–1953; Currently 36th Fighter Squadron, Osan AB, South Korea. [10] 37th Aero Squadron: 13 June 1917 AEF: 18 September 1917 – 5 April 1919
Six weeks later, Bolt again turned down his R&R and joined the 39th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron, flying the F-86 Sabre. [27] Ruddell assigned him to First Lieutenant Joseph C. McConnell, who would be the top ace in the war. Bolt and McConnell quickly established a close friendship in spite of Bolt's superior rank, and he attributed his success ...
Joseph Christopher McConnell Jr. (30 January 1922 – 25 August 1954) was a United States Air Force fighter pilot who was the top American flying ace during the Korean War. [1] A native of Dover, New Hampshire, Captain McConnell was credited with shooting down 16 MiG-15s while flying North American F-86 Sabres.
Charles Peter O'Sullivan (July 31, 1915 – September 20, 2013) was a World War II veteran fighter pilot and squadron commander of the 39th Fighter Squadron, Army Air Forces while in New Guinea. He flew the Lockheed P-38 Lightning and was shot down on September 20, 1943, south of Wewak while escorting bombers.