created as the 404th wait wait wait wait wait Group (Dive) 25.1.1943
Activated 4.2.1943
Transformed on the 404th Fighter-Bomber Group in August 1943
Transformed on the 404th Fighter Group in may 1944
Returned back to the US in August 1945
Deactivated 9.11.1945
Transformed on 137th Fighter Group
Called into active service 10.10.1950
Transformed to the 137th Fighter-Bomber Group
SQUADRON
125th - 1950 - 1952
127th - 1950 - 1952
128th - 1950 - 1952
455th - 1943 - 1944
506th (formerly 620th) - 1943 - 1945
507th (formerly 621st) - 1943 - 1945
508th (formally 622nd) - 1943 - 1945
623rd - 1943
STATIONS
Meridian, Key Field
Hopkins, Congaree Army Airfield
Burns, Burns Army Airfield
Myrtle Beach, Myrtle Beach Army Airfield
Christchurch, US Army Air Force Station 414
Paris, France, 6.7.1944
Bretigny-Sur-Orge, Advanced Landing Ground A-48 Bretigny
Juvincourt-et-Damary, Advanced Landing Ground A-68
St-Trond, Belgium, 1.10.1944
Keltz, Germany, 30.3.1945
Fritzlar, Advanced Landing Ground Y-86 Fritzlar
Stuttgart, Advanced Landing Ground R-50, Stuttgart/Echterdingen
Tampa, Drew Army Airfield
Oklahoma City, Will Rogers Field
Alexandria, Alexandria AFB
Semoutiers-Montsaon, Chaumont-Semoutiers Air Base
COMMANDERS
Lt Col Luck G Drafts, 4.2.1943
Lt Col James Van G Wilson, 6.5.1943
Col Carroll W McColpin, 27.1.1944
Lt Col Leo C Moon, 25.11.1944
Lt Col John R. Murphy, 23.4.1945 - unknown date
Lt Col Joseph W Turner, 10.10.1950
Lt Col Roger G. Ludeman, 27.12.1950
Col Chesley G Peterson, 8.8.1951 - 10.7.1952
CAMPAIGNS
American Theater
Air Offensive, Europe
Normandy
Northern France
Rhineland
Ardennes-Alsace
Central Europe
DECORATIONS
Distinguished Unit Citation - Germany, 10.9.1944
French Croix de Guerre with Palm - 29., 30. and 31.7.1944
Cited in the Order of the Day, Belgian Army - 6.6. - 30.9.1944
- 1.10.1944
- 18.12.1944 - 15.1.1945
Belgian Fourragere
Used aircraft
P-39
P-47
F-84.
Activated 4.2.1943
Transformed on the 404th Fighter-Bomber Group in August 1943
Transformed on the 404th Fighter Group in may 1944
Returned back to the US in August 1945
Deactivated 9.11.1945
Transformed on 137th Fighter Group
Called into active service 10.10.1950
Transformed to the 137th Fighter-Bomber Group
SQUADRON
125th - 1950 - 1952
127th - 1950 - 1952
128th - 1950 - 1952
455th - 1943 - 1944
506th (formerly 620th) - 1943 - 1945
507th (formerly 621st) - 1943 - 1945
508th (formally 622nd) - 1943 - 1945
623rd - 1943
STATIONS
Meridian, Key Field
Hopkins, Congaree Army Airfield
Burns, Burns Army Airfield
Myrtle Beach, Myrtle Beach Army Airfield
Christchurch, US Army Air Force Station 414
Paris, France, 6.7.1944
Bretigny-Sur-Orge, Advanced Landing Ground A-48 Bretigny
Juvincourt-et-Damary, Advanced Landing Ground A-68
St-Trond, Belgium, 1.10.1944
Keltz, Germany, 30.3.1945
Fritzlar, Advanced Landing Ground Y-86 Fritzlar
Stuttgart, Advanced Landing Ground R-50, Stuttgart/Echterdingen
Tampa, Drew Army Airfield
Oklahoma City, Will Rogers Field
Alexandria, Alexandria AFB
Semoutiers-Montsaon, Chaumont-Semoutiers Air Base
COMMANDERS
Lt Col Luck G Drafts, 4.2.1943
Lt Col James Van G Wilson, 6.5.1943
Col Carroll W McColpin, 27.1.1944
Lt Col Leo C Moon, 25.11.1944
Lt Col John R. Murphy, 23.4.1945 - unknown date
Lt Col Joseph W Turner, 10.10.1950
Lt Col Roger G. Ludeman, 27.12.1950
Col Chesley G Peterson, 8.8.1951 - 10.7.1952
CAMPAIGNS
American Theater
Air Offensive, Europe
Normandy
Northern France
Rhineland
Ardennes-Alsace
Central Europe
DECORATIONS
Distinguished Unit Citation - Germany, 10.9.1944
French Croix de Guerre with Palm - 29., 30. and 31.7.1944
Cited in the Order of the Day, Belgian Army - 6.6. - 30.9.1944
- 1.10.1944
- 18.12.1944 - 15.1.1945
Belgian Fourragere
Used aircraft
P-39
P-47
F-84.