THE 315th FIGHTER SQUADRON, one of the three squadrons of the 324th Fighter Group along with the 314th and 316th, was constituted on June 24th, 1942 and activated on July 6th, 1942, almost six months to the day following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

An official summary of the squadron history reads as follows:
Assignments. 324th Fighter Group, 6 Jul 1942-7 Nov 1945
Stations. Mitchel Field, NY, 6 Jul 1942;Philadelphia, Pa, 6 Jul 1942;Grenier Field, NH, 23 Oct 1942-31 Jan 1943;El Kabrit, Egypt, 19 Mar 1943; Tunisia, 14 Apr 1943; Kairouan, Tunisia, 2 Jun 1943: El Haouaria, Tunisia, c. 18 Jun 1943; Menzel Heurr, Tunisia, 3 Oct 1943; Cercola, Italy, 27 Oct 1943; Pignataro Maggiore, Italy, 10 May 1944; Le Banca Airfield, Italy, 7 Jun 1944; Montalto Di Castro, Italy, 15 Jun 1944; Corsica, 19 Jul 1944; Le Luc, France, 22 Aug 1944; Istres, France, c. 1 Sep 1944; Amberieu, France, 6 Sep 1944; Tavaux, France, 17 Sep 1944; Luneville, France, 2 Jan 1945;
Stuttgart, Germany, 3 May-20 Oct 1945; Camp Shanks, NY, 6-7 Nov 1945.
Aircraft. P-40, 1942-1944; P-47, 1944-45.
Operations: Combat in MTO and ETO, c. 21 May-22 Jul 1943; and 30 Oct 1943-8 May 1945
Campaigns. Tunisia; Sicily; Naples-Foggia; Anzio; Rome-Arno; Northern France; Southern France; Rhineland; Ardennes-Alsace; Central Europe; Air Combat, EAME Theater.
Decorations. Distinguished Unit Citations: North Africa and Sicily, [May-July] 1943; Cassino, 12-14 May 1944. French Croix de Guerra with Palm.
Chronology. In the course of this chronology, the ground echelon of the squadron circled the globe, leaving the east coast in February 1943 by train for San Francisco where it embarked on the U.S.S. West Point across the Pacific and Indian Oceans to Suez, then across North Africa to Tunisia by truck convoy, airplane and ship. From Tunis the outfit was ferried by landing craft to Italy, then to Corsica and the south of France and finally back to New York by troop ship in November, 1945.
Squadron Commanders. During that time it had six squadron commanders:
Major George H. Armstrong, Jr., Inwood, Long Island, NY
Major Julian R. Adams, Jr., Sanford, FL
Major Edward A. Sanders, Jr., Nashville, TN
Major Arthur L. Marks, Long Beach, CA
Capt. Kenneth D. Scheiwe, Grand Rapids, M
Lt. Col. Lester L. Krause, Jr., Burton OH

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