Topic summary
348th Fighter Group
Extracted from the Wikipedia article 108th Operations Group.
The group also commands an intelligence squadron and a contingency response squadron, and previously operated a special operations airlift squadron. Its World War II predecessor, the 348th Fighter Group, was the most successful Republic P-47 Thunderbolt group in the Southwest Pacific Theater, credited with 396 aerial victories over half of all P-47 kills credited to Fifth Air Force. Its commander, Colonel Neel E. Kearby, was awarded the Medal of Honor for single-handedly destroying six enemy aircraft in one mission over Wewak on 11 October 1943.