72nd Bombardment Squadron | 5th Bombardment Group | Thirteenth Air Force

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72nd Bombardment Squadron | 5th Bombardment Group | Thirteenth Air Force
 

STATIONS. Bellows Field, TH, 11 Dec 1941-18 Sep 1942; Espiritu Santo, 24 Sep 1942 (operated from Guadalcanal, 4 Oct i94%-8 Aug 1943; 7 Oct-15 Nov 1943; 13 Dec 1943-27 Jan 1944); Munda, New Georgia, g Jan 1944; Momote Airfield, Los Negros, 15 Apr 1944; Wakde, c. 19 Aug 1944; Noemfoor, 27 Sep 1949; Morotai, 24 Oct 1944; Samar, 29 Mar 1945.

 

AIRCRAFT. B-18, 1937-1942; B-17, 1941-1943; B-24; 1943-1945.

 

CAMPAIGNS. Central Pacific; Guadalcanal; China Defensive; New Guinea; Northern Solomons; Eastern Mandates; Bismarck Archipelago; Western Pacific; Leyte; Luzon; Southern Philippines; China Offensive; Air Combat, Asiatic-Pacific Theater.

 

EMBLEM. Two bolts of lightning appearing from behind a thundercloud, the bolts forming more or less vaguely the figures ‘‘7" and “2,” the lower end of the second bolt disappearing behind a second cloud. Black disc edged with white, white-to-gray clouds, white bolts. (Approved 14 Feb 1924.)

 

Embroidered on cotton.

 

 

 

Silkscreened on leather.

 

 

 

See 5th Bomb Group.

 

 

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