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367th Fighter Squadron

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{{Infobox military unit

|unit_name= 367th Fighter Squadron

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|image=482d Fighter Wing - General Dynamics F-16C Block 30H Fighting Falcon 87-290.jpg

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|caption=482d Fighter Wing F-16 Fighting Falcon{{efn|Aircraft is General Dynamics F-16C Block 30H Fighting Falcon serial 87–290 at Homestead Air Reserve Base.}}

|dates=1943–1945; 2015–present

|country={{USA}}

|branch={{air force|USA}}

|type=

|role=Fighter

|size=150{{cite web|url= https://www.homestead.afrc.af.mil/News/story/id/123462542/ |title=WW II squadron reactivated|date=3 November 2015|publisher=482d Fighter Wing Public Affairs|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20151222171655/http://www.homestead.afrc.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123462542 |archive-date=22 December 2015 |url-status= live |access-date=31 May 2016}}

|command_structure=Air Combat Command

|current_commander=Lt Col Henry Jefress

|garrison=Homestead Air Reserve Base

|nickname=Vultures

|motto=

|colors=

|march=

|mascot=

|battles=European Theater of Operations

|notable_commanders=

|anniversaries=

|decorations=Distinguished Unit Citation
French Croix de Guerre with Palm

|battle_honours=

|identification_symbol=150px

|identification_symbol_label=367th Fighter Squadron emblem{{efn|Approved 1 March 1944. Description: On a disc medium blue, a vulture proper, beak dripping blood, perched on one of three golden orange lightning bolts issuing from large white cloud formation in dexter chief, small cloud formations in dexter chief of gray and maroon respectively.}}Maurer, Combat Squadrons, p. 455

|identification_symbol_2=CP

|identification_symbol_2_label=World War II Fuselage codeWatkins, pp. 28–29

|identification_symbol_3=FM

|identification_symbol_3_label=Tail code

}}

The 367th Fighter Squadron is a "reverse" associate United States Air Force unit, stationed at Homestead Air Reserve Base, Florida, where it operates and maintains the General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcons of the 482d Fighter Wing of the Air Force Reserve Command. Its parent is the 495th Fighter Group at Shaw Air Force Base, South Carolina.

The squadron was first activated at the beginning of 1943. After training in the United States, it moved to England and entered combat in the European Theater of Operations. The squadron earned the Distinguished Unit Citation and the French Croix de Guerre with Palm during its combat missions. After VE Day, the squadron returned to the United States, where it was inactivated on 7 November 1945. The squadron was reactivated in October 2015.

History

=World War II=

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The 367th Fighter Squadron was activated on 1 January 1943 at Richmond Army Air Base, Virginia as one of the original squadrons of the 358th Fighter Group. The squadron initially began training with the Curtiss P-40 Warhawk. Later that year, the unit replaced its Warhawks with the Republic P-47 Thunderbolt, which it flew for the remainder of the war. The squadron left Richmond in September 1943 for the port of embarkation.Maurer, Combat Units, pp. 240–241 It sailed for England on the {{SS|Monterey}} on 8 October.Freeman, p. 252

The 367th arrived in England during October 1943, where it began operations with Eighth Air Force on 20 December 1943, but was transferred to Ninth Air Force in February 1944. The unit engaged primarily in missions escorting bombers attacking targets on the continent of Europe until April 1944. The squadron dive bombed marshalling yards and airfields and attacked enemy communications during April and May from its new station, an advanced landing groundRust, p. 69 at RAF High Halden, to help prepare for the invasion of Normandy.

The squadron escorted troop carrier formations on D Day and the following day as the formations dropped paratroopers on the Cotentin Peninsula. For the remainder of June, it attacked rail lines, troop concentrations, bridges and transport. The squadron moved to France in July and, from its base at Cretteville, took part in operations that resulted in the Allied breakthrough at St Lo. The squadron continued to fly escort, interdiction and close air support missions during the Allied drive across France and into Germany.

The squadron received a Distinguished Unit Citation for its actions between 24 December 1944 and 2 January 1945, when it supported Seventh Army, attacking railroads and rolling stock, other vehicles and enemy artillery formations. It also destroyed numerous Luftwaffe fighters while defending against Operation Bodenplatte, an attack concentrating on forward Allied air bases in an attempt by the Luftwaffe to attain air superiority in the area of the Battle of the Bulge. In March, the squadron attacked German forces attempting to withdraw across the Rhine River, destroying motor transport and hampering the withdrawal efforts, earning a second Distinguished Unit Citation. The following month, the squadron attacked enemy airfields near Munich and Ingolstadt, engaging aircraft and supporting the advance of ground forces in the area, earning a third award of the Distinguished Unit Citation. The squadron was also awarded the French Croix de Guerre with Palm by the Government of France for its assistance in the liberation of France. The squadron was credited with the destruction of 49.5 enemy aircraft during the war.Newton and Senning, p. 634

The squadron remained in Germany after VE Day until July 1945, when it returned to the United States, where it was inactivated on 7 November 1945.

=Associate unit=

The 367th Fighter Squadron was reactivated at Homestead Air Reserve Base on 23 October 2015, replacing Detachment 93 of the 495th Fighter Group. Under the "Total Force Integration" program, the squadron, a regular unit, will operate and maintain the General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon aircraft of the 482d Fighter Wing of Air Force Reserve Command as an associate unit.

Lineage

  • Constituted as the 367th Fighter Squadron (Single Engine) on 20 December 1942

: Activated on 1 January 1943

: Inactivated on 7 November 1945Lineage through 1945 in Maurer, Combat Squadrons, p. 455

  • Redesignated 367th Fighter Squadron

: Activated 23 October 2015{{Cite web|url= https://www.dafhistory.af.mil/About-Us/Fact-Sheets/Display/Article/862119/367-fighter-squadron-acc/ |title=Factsheet 367 Fighter Group (ACC) |last1=Haulman|first1=Daniel L.|date=13 January 2016|publisher=Air Force Historical Research Agency|access-date=January 30, 2025}}

=Assignments=

  • 358th Fighter Group: 1 January 1943 – 7 November 1945
  • 495th Fighter Group: 23 October 2015 – present

=Stations=

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=Aircraft=

  • Curtiss P-40 Warhawk, 1943
  • Republic P-47 Thunderbolt, 1943–1945
  • General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon, 2015–present

=Awards and campaigns=

{{unit awards table

|award_image1=AF PUC

|award_name1=Presidential Unit Citation

|award_date1=24 December 1944–2 January 1945

|award_notes1=Ardennes, 367th Fighter Squadron

|award_image2=AF PUC

|award_name2=Presidential Unit Citation

|award_date2=19 March 1945–20 March 1945

|award_notes2=Europe, 367th Fighter Squadron

|award_image3=AF PUC

|award_name3=Presidential Unit Citation

|award_date3=8 April 1945–25 April 1945

|award_notes3=Germany, 367th Fighter Squadron

|award_image4=Croix de guerre WWII

|award_name4=French Croix de Guerre with Palm

|award_date4=1944–1945

|award_notes4=367th Fighter Squadron

}}

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! Campaign

! Dates

! Notes

200pxAmerican Theater without inscription1 January 1943 – 25 September 1943{{efn|Per Maurer. However, normally one year of service was required for this award unless the service was within the theater, but outside the Continental United States.}}
200pxAir Offensive, Europe20 October 1943 – 5 June 1944
200pxNormandy6 June 1944 – 24 July 1944
200pxNorthern France25 July 1944 – 14 September 1944
200pxRhineland15 September 1944 – 21 March 1945
200pxArdennes-Alsace16 December 1944 – 25 January 1945
200pxCentral Europe22 March 1944 – 21 May 1945

See also

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References

=Notes=

{{Notelist}}

=Citations=

{{Reflist|30em}}

=Bibliography=

{{Air Force Historical Research Agency}}

  • {{cite book|last=Anderson|first=Capt. Barry|title=Army Air Forces Stations: A Guide to the Stations Where U.S. Army Air Forces Personnel Served in the United Kingdom During World War II|url=http://www.afhra.af.mil/shared/media/document/AFD-081010-027.pdf|access-date=7 July 2012|year=1985|publisher=Research Division, USAF Historical Research Center|location=Maxwell AFB, AL|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160123155923/http://www.afhra.af.mil/shared/media/document/AFD-081010-027.pdf|archive-date=23 January 2016}}
  • {{cite book|last=Freeman|first = Roger A. |author-link1=Roger A. Freeman|title=The Mighty Eighth: Units, Men and Machines (A History of the US 8th Army Air Force)|year=1970 |publisher=Macdonald and Company|location=London, England, UK |isbn= 978-0-87938-638-2}}
  • {{cite book|last=Johnson|first=1st Lt. David C.|title=U.S. Army Air Forces Continental Airfields (ETO) D-Day to V-E Day|url=http://www.afhra.af.mil/shared/media/document/AFD-081010-026.pdf|year=1988|publisher=Research Division, USAF Historical Research Center|location=Maxwell AFB, AL|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150929064443/http://www.afhra.af.mil/shared/media/document/AFD-081010-026.pdf|archive-date=29 September 2015}}
  • {{cite book|editor=Maurer, Maurer|title=Air Force Combat Units of World War II|orig-date= 1961|url= http://media.defense.gov/2010/Sep/21/2001330256/-1/-1/0/AFD-100921-044.pdf |archive-url= https://archive.today/20210115181723/https://media.defense.gov/2010/Sep/21/2001330256/-1/-1/0/AFD-100921-044.pdf |url-status= dead |archive-date= 15 January 2021 |edition=reprint|year=1983|publisher=Office of Air Force History|location=Washington, DC|isbn=0-912799-02-1|lccn=61060979}}
  • {{cite book|editor=Maurer, Maurer|title=Combat Squadrons of the Air Force, World War II|orig-date=1969|url= http://media.defense.gov/2010/Dec/02/2001329899/-1/-1/0/AFD-101202-002.pdf|archive-url= https://archive.today/20230820144531/https://media.defense.gov/2010/Dec/02/2001329899/-1/-1/0/AFD-101202-002.pdf|url-status= dead|archive-date= 20 August 2023|edition= reprint|year=1982|publisher=Office of Air Force History|location=Washington, DC|isbn=0-405-12194-6|oclc=72556|lccn=70605402}}
  • {{cite web|url=http://www.afhra.af.mil/shared/media/document/AFD-090601-121.pdf |last1=Newton |first1=Wesely P. Jr. |last2=Senning |first2=Calvin F. |title=USAF Credits for the Destruction of Enemy Aircraft, World War II, USAF Historical Study No. 85 |date=1963 |publisher=Research Studies Institute, USAF Historical Division, Air University |access-date=27 April 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141025154535/http://www.afhra.af.mil/shared/media/document/AFD-090601-121.pdf |archive-date=25 October 2014 }}
  • {{cite book|last=Rust|first=Kenn C.|title=The 9th Air Force in World War II|year=1967|publisher=Aero Publishers, Inc.|location=Fallbrook, CA|lccn= 67-16454}}
  • {{cite book|last=Watkins|first=Robert|title=Battle Colors|volume=III Insignia and Markings of the Ninth Air Force in World War II|year=2008|publisher=Shiffer Publishing Ltd.|location=Atglen, PA|isbn=978-0-7643-2938-8}}

External links

  • {{cite web|url= http://www.americanairmuseum.com/unit/303 |title=358th Fighter Group|publisher=American Air Museum in Britain|access-date=31 May 2016}}

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