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- The 137th Special Operations Group is an associate unit of the Oklahoma Air National Guard stationed at Will Rogers Air National Guard Base. If activated for federal service, the group is gained by Air Force Special Operations Command. The group was first activated during World War II as the 404th Fighter Group flying Republic P-47 Thunderbolts. The group served in the European Theater of Operations from May 1944 until the end of the war. It provided close air support to ground troops following Operation Overlord, the Normandy landings. It earned a Distinguished Unit Citation, French Croix de Guerre with Palm and Belgian Fourragere before inactivating in the fall of 1945. The group was redesignated the 137th Fighter Group and allotted to the National Guard in 1946, with squadrons in Oklahoma and Kansas. During the Korean War, it was activated and deployed to France as the 137th Fighter-Bomber Group, where it opened Chaumont Air Base. The unit was replaced in France by a regular unit and returned without personnel or equipment to state control. In 1955, it converted from the fighter bomber to the fighter interceptor mission, and two years later lost its squadrons in Tulsa and in Kansas to new fighter groups. From 1961 until it was inactivated in 1975, the group engaged in strategic and tactical airlift. The group was activated again in 1992 and converted to the air refueling mission in 2008. (en)
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- Igne Ferroque Hostem Armatum ContereLatinWith Fire and Steel Crush the Armored Foe (WW II), Tontrinus e Caelo, then Thunder from the Sky
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- Will Rogers Air National Guard Base, Oklahoma (en)
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- Igne Ferroque Hostem Armatum Contere Latin With Fire and Steel Crush the Armored Foe , Tontrinus e Caelo, then Thunder from the Sky (en)
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- Maj Gen Stanley F.H. Newman (en)
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- The 137th Special Operations Group is an associate unit of the Oklahoma Air National Guard stationed at Will Rogers Air National Guard Base. If activated for federal service, the group is gained by Air Force Special Operations Command. The group was redesignated the 137th Fighter Group and allotted to the National Guard in 1946, with squadrons in Oklahoma and Kansas. During the Korean War, it was activated and deployed to France as the 137th Fighter-Bomber Group, where it opened Chaumont Air Base. From 1961 until it was inactivated in 1975, the group engaged in strategic and tactical airlift. (en)
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- 137th Special Operations Group (en)
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