August 1944 (air echelon only until 19 September) Wama Airfield, Morotai, Netherlands East Indies, c. 13 February 1945 (air echelon only) McGuire Field, San Jose, Mindoro, Philippines, 22 February 1945 (ground echelon only) Puerto Princesa Airfield, Palawan, Philippines, 6 March – 11 December 1945 (ground echelon only until 25 March) Camp Stoneman, California, 30 December 1945 – 1 January 1946 Nagoya Airfield, Japan, 20 February 1947 Itazuke Air Base, Japan, 25 September 1947 Bofu Air Base, Japan, 25 September 1947 Ashiya Airfield (later, AB), Japan, 25 September 1947 Nagoya Airfield, Japan, 1 April – 24 June 1950 Moody Air Force Base, Georgia, 1 May 1991 – present Aircraft P-40 Warhawk, 1942–1943 Bell P-39, P-400 Airacobra, 1942–1944 Lockheed P-38 Lighting, 1942–1945 P-51 (later, F-51) Mustang, 1947–1948 Northrop P-61 Black Widow, 1947–1950 North American F-82 Twin Mustang, 1949–1950 General Dynamics F-16 Flying Falcon, 1991–2001 Lockheed HC-130 (Various models), 1994–present A/OA-10 Thunderbolt II, 1995–2000 Sikorsky HH-60G Pave Hawk, 1997–present Operational history World War II Constituted as the 347th Fighter Group on 29 September 1942. Activated in New Caledonia on 3 October 1942. Detachments of the group, which was assigned to Thirteenth Air Force in January 1943, were sent to Guadalcanal, where they used Bell P-39 and P-400 Airacobra aircraft to fly protective patrols, support ground forces, and attack Japanese shipping. Operational squadrons of the 347th FG were the 67th, 68th, 70th and 339th Fighter Squadrons. When the Allied campaign to recover the central and northern Solomon Islands began in February 1943, the detachments, still operating from Guadalcanal and using Lockheed P-38 Lightnings and P-39 Airacobras, escorted bombers and attacked enemy bases on New Georgia, the Russell Islands, and Bougainville. It was P-38Gs of the 339th Fighter Squadron which, on 18 April 1943, flew the mission which resulted in the death of Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto. Only their aircraft possessed the range to intercept and engage. Pilots were informed that they were intercepting an "important high officer," although they were not aware of who their actual target was. On the morning of 18 April, despite urgings by local commanders to cancel the trip for fear of ambush, Yamamoto's planes left Rabaul as scheduled. Shortly after, eighteen specially fitted P-38s took off from Guadalcanal. They wave-hopped most of the 430 miles to the rendezvous point, maintaining radio silence throughout. At 09:34 Tokyo time, the two flights met and a dogfight ensued between the P-38s and