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82nd
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| Adorimini - Up and at 'Em! | |
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82nd
Fighter |
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| Adorimini - Up and at 'Em! | |
| Air Forced Assigned To: | 12th AF (Dec 1942 - Nov 1943) | |
| 15th AF (Nov 1943 - end WWII) | ||
| Stations Flown From: | Northern Ireland, Oct 1942 | |
| Telergma, Algeria, Jan 1943 | ||
| Berteaux, Algeria, 28 Mar 1943 | ||
| Souk-el-Arba, Algeria, 13 Jun 1943 | ||
| Grombalia,Tunisia, 3 Aug 1943 | ||
| San Pancrazio, Italy, 3 Oct 1943 | ||
| Lecce, Italy, 10 Oct 1943 | ||
| Vincenzo Airfield, Italy, 11 Jan 1944 | ||
| Lesina, Italy, 30 Aug-Sep 1945 | ||
| Campaigns Flown in: | Air Combat, EAME Theater | |
| Air Offensive, Europe | ||
| Tunisia | ||
| Sicily | ||
| Naples-Foggia | ||
| Rome-Arno | ||
| Normandy | ||
| Northern France | ||
| Southern France | ||
| North Apennines | ||
| Rhineland | ||
| Central Europe | ||
| Po Valley | ||
| Awards Won: | Distinguished Unit Citation: Italy, 25 Aug 1943 | |
| Distinguished Unit Citation: Italy, 2 Sep 1943 | ||
| Distinguished Unit Citation: Ploesti, Rumania, 10 Jun 1944 | ||
| Victory Claims (in Air): | Destroyed: | Probable: | Damaged: | |||
| 553 | 91 | 215 | ||||
Aces were:
(scores in the group only)
[Total WWII aerial score]
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| 95th FS: | J.L. Curdes (8) [9] |
96th FS: |
W.J. Sloan (12) | 97th FS: | W.J. Carroll (7) | ||
| C.E. Adams (6) | F.D. Hurlbut (9) | R. Crawford (6) | |||||
| J.D. Holloway (6) | C.J. Zubarik (8) | T.A. White (6) | |||||
| W.J. Schildt (6) | C.R. Kinsey (7) | R.C. Griffith (5) | |||||
| W.F. Gardner (5) | W.A. Kuentzel (7) | G.L. Rounds (5) | |||||
| T.H. McArthur (5) | L.P. Liebers (7) | H.W. Visscher (5) | |||||
| E.K. Osher (5) | H.C. Vaughn (7) | C.E. Ford (4) [5] | |||||
| C.E. Ford (1) [5] | E.T. Waters (7) | ||||||
| L.E. Andersen (5) | |||||||
| C.M. Isaacson (5) | |||||||
| P.R. Cockran (4) [5] | |||||||
| C.O. Johnson (4) [7] | |||||||
| J.W. Jorda (4) | |||||||
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| 95th | 96th | 97th | ||||
| Aircraft Flown: | P-38 | |
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