The 333rd Fighter Squadron, 318thFighter Group, 7th Fighter Command, 7th Air Force. With the 333rd, flew air defense missions in Hawaiian Islands and interdiction, air support, and escort missions during the Mariana and Okinawa Campaigns. Inserted into Mariana Campaign via carrier launch from Sargent Bay to land on Aslito, a captured Japanese Air Field. Ferried new P-47N, in formation flight, from Hawaii to Johnson Island, to Majuro Island, to Eniwetok Island, to Siapan. Inserted into Okinawa Campaign via squadron formation flight from Siapan to Ie Shima, a little island off the west coast of Okinawa