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Fightin’ Bull in the Indochina Shop – The Southeast Asia Service of Lars Granath

A 388th Tactical Fighter Wing F-4E prepares to launch on a combat sortie from within the shelter of a “Wonder Arch” revetment at Bien Hoa Air Base, South Vietnam, during the Spring Invasion of 1972. The arches protected aircraft from North Vietnamese Army/Viet Cong rocket attacks. Lars Granath flew a number of combat missions during quick turns at South Vietnamese air bases to repel the invaders. (Don Logan, The 388th Tactical Fighter Wing at Korat Royal Thai Air Force Base, 1972)
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Fightin’ Bull in the Indochina Shop – The Southeast Asia Service of Lars Granath

Half of a 388th Tactical Fighter Wing surface-to-air missile (SAM) hunter-killer team, F-105G Thunderchief 63-8321 of the 6010th (later redesignated 17th) Wild Weasel Squadron and F-4E 67-0288 of the 469th Tactical Fighter Squadron, is seen here in the skies over North Vietnam. Lars Granath had occasion to work with the Wild Weasels in this role in his time with the 469th TFS. (Don Logan, The 388th Tactical Fighter Wing at Korat Royal Thai Air Force Base, 1972)
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Fightin’ Bull in the Indochina Shop – The Southeast Asia Service of Lars Granath

469th Tactical Fighter Squadron F-4E 67-0379 is seen here heading north on a mission of Christmas Day, 1971. Note the brightly colored Mk 82 500-lb bombs prepared for special delivery, and the fuse extenders on the bombs mounted on the wings, to ensure their blast and fragmentation effects would be released that far above the ground. Lars Granath flew a number of interdiction missions against enemy forces infiltrating into South Vietnam from Laos, as well as strike missions against targets in North Vietnam. (Don Logan, The 388th Tactical Fighter Wing at Korat Royal Thai Air Force Base, 1972)
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Fightin’ Bull in the Indochina Shop – The Southeast Asia Service of Lars Granath

Emblem of the 469th Tactical Fighting Squadron, the Fightin’ Bulls. The squadron was based at Korat RTAFB from 1966 to 1972, flying the F-105D Thunderchief 1966-1968 and then the F-4E Phantom II 1968-1972. It is now a T-38 training squadron at Sheppard AFB, TX/(Don Logan, The 388th Tactical Fighter Wing at Korat Royal Thai Air Force Base, 1972)
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Fightin’ Bull in the Indochina Shop – The Southeast Asia Service of Lars Granath

469th Tactical Fighter Squadron Fightin’ Bulls F-4E 67-0306 was “Lars Granath’s aircraft,” and is seen here during a level weapons delivery of a dozen Mk 82 500-lb bombs in late 1971-1972. This suggests either a LORAN-guided drop with an F-4D or RF-4C from another wing used to navigate to a weather-obscured target area, or a Combat Skypot ground-based radar-guided delivery on an enemy target. Tail number 306 survived combat in Southeast Asia and then served with the 36th TFS Flying Fiends at Osan AB, Korea, before being lost in an accident with another unit in Alaska. (Courtesy of Col Lars Granath)
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Fightin’ Bull in the Indochina Shop – The Southeast Asia Service of Lars Granath

Aircraft Commander Lars Granath stands confidently by a shark-mouthed 388th Tactical Fighter Wing/469th Tactical Fighter Squadron F-4E Phantom II fighter, the type he flew from Korat Royal Thai Air Force Base, Thailand on 178 combat missions and 435 combat hours with the Fightin’ Bulls of the 469th TFS from September, 1971 to August, 1972. (Antelope County News, via Col Lars Granath, 2019)
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Getting Patton to the Rhine

View of previously damaged P-47D-30-RA Thunderbolt, serial number 44-33148 of the 404th Fighter Squadron (squadron code 9Q), 371st Fighter Group, in one of the repaired hangars at Metz which offered much improved conditions to the engineers (aircraft maintainers) working to keep them flying. The 371st Fighter Group enjoyed an outstanding aircraft maintenance record, reflected in the group’s ability to generate and sustain a record number of number of sorties in March, 1945. (Source: “The Story of the 371st Fighter Group in the ETO.”)
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Getting Patton to the Rhine

A battle-damaged Republic P-47D-30-RA Thunderbolt, serial number 44-33148 of the 404th Fighter Squadron, 371st Fighter Group, returned safe if not sound to Metz Airfield (Y-34) after combat with the enemy, March, 1945. The aircraft was subsequently repaired. (Source: “The Story of the 371st Fighter Group in the ETO.”)
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Getting Patton to the Rhine

Grim results of fighter-bomber attacks on enemy motor transport are seen here on a stretch of road between Kaiserslautern and Bad Dürkheim, Germany as the 371st Fighter Group helped Third Army get to the Rhine River in March, 1945. (Source: “The Story of the 371st Fighter Group in the ETO.”)
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Getting Patton to the Rhine

The fighter squadron armorers at Metz (Y-34) were kept busy to keep aircraft armed for all the missions flown by the 371st Fighter Group. Not only were the P-47 pilots burning up tens of thousands of rounds of .50 caliber machine gun ammunition in lucrative attacks against enemy forces, but they were also burning up gun barrels from the frequent, intense strafing against the enemy. (Source: “The Story of the 371st Fighter Group in the ETO.”)
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Getting Patton to the Rhine

German locomotives in a marshalling yard worked over by fighter-bombers. Locomotives, boxcars, gondola cars, flat cars and marshalling yards were frequently the targets of 371st Fighter Group P-47 Thunderbolt fighter-bomber attacks in the Saar-Palatinate operations of March, 1945. (Source: “The Story of the 371st Fighter Group in the ETO.”)
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Getting Patton to the Rhine

P-47D Thunderbolt “CAMP FIRE” with Lt. Howard C. Camp, 405th Fighter Squadron of the 371st Fighter Group, returning from a mission over Germany. Note the pilot has cracked open the canopy. Lt. Camp was awarded the Air Medal and the 1st Oak Leaf Cluster during the month of March, 1945. The P-47D “Spark Plug” is seen beyond on the outside of the formation. (Source: “The Story of the 371st Fighter Group in the ETO.”)
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Getting Patton to the Rhine

Map of the Battle Area in the Saar-Palatinate Triangle, 12 – 21 March 1945 (Source: MacDonald, Charles B., U.S. Army in World War II, European Theater of Operations, The Last Offensive, Chapter XII The Saar-Palatinate)
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Getting Patton to the Rhine

XX Corps Insignia and the emblems of the various subordinate divisions of the corps which were assigned or attached during the campaigns across Northwestern Europe, 1944-1945. The 371st Fighter Group supported several of these divisions in the drive from the German frontier to the Rhine in March, 1945, including the 10th and 12th Armored Divisions and the 80th and 94th Infantry Divisions. (Source: The Ghost Corps – Thru Hell & High Water)
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Getting Patton to the Rhine

Commanding General of Third Army, General George S. Patton, Jr. (left) congratulates General Walton H. Walker, Commanding General of XX Corps, after his promotion to Lieutenant General in April, 1945. The 371st Fighter group supported XX Corps rapid advance through the Saar-Palatinate region of Germany to the Rhine River in March, 1945. (Source: The Ghost Corps – Thru Hell & High Water)
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Remembering Catherine "Kate" Black Elk

Catherine “Kate” Black Elk, born on January 24, 1922 was one of 70 enlisted Women’s Army Corps (WAC) soldiers who served at Portland Army Air Base during World War II.
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Remembering Catherine "Kate" Black Elk

Catherine “Kate” Black Elk, born on January 24, 1922 was one of 70 enlisted Women’s Army Corps (WAC) soldiers who served at Portland Army Air Base during World War II.
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First Campaign: The 371st Fighter Group in the Air Offensive, Europe

The rough mission of the 416th Bomb Group (Light) on May 27, 1944 against the railroad marshaling yard at Amiens, France was escorted by fighter pilots of the 371st Fighter Group, who witnessed the event captured in this picture as watched an A-20 fall to enemy fire over the target. At center of the picture with right engine burning is A-20G-35 S/N 43-10203, code 5H-R flown by pilot 1st Lt. Lucian J Siracusa of the 668th Bomb Sq. (L), 416th Bomb Gp. (L) from the lead section of the first combat box. At bottom with right engine burning is A-20G-35 S/N 43-10206 code 2A-F, flown by 1st Lt. Allen W Gullion, Jr. of the 669th Bomb Sq. (L), 416th Bomb Gp. (L) from the third section of the lead box. (416th Bomb Group website, 416th.com)
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First Campaign: The 371st Fighter Group in the Air Offensive, Europe

Capt William R. Lamb, 404th Fighter Squadron, took part in the ragged May 2, 1944 escort mission, and on return was forced to belly-land with wheels up back at Bisterne when one of his P-47’s main landing gear stuck in the retracted position and would not lower. And this was the result, though the aircraft, serial number 42-76560 was repaired and flew again. (The Story of the 371st Fighter Group in the E.T.O.)
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First Campaign: The 371st Fighter Group in the Air Offensive, Europe

2nd Lt Eugene E. Sanderson, 405th Fighter Squadron, was killed in a flying accident on April 12, 1944 while flying a ship on an engineering sortie. It was on the same day the 371st Fighter group flew its first combat mission in the ETO. (The Story of the 371st Fighter Group in the E.T.O.)
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