31st Fighter Group

309th Fighter Squadron Commanders

30 January 1942 to May 12 1943              Major Harrison R. Thyng

12 May 1943 to July 12 1943                    Major Frank A. Hill

12 July 1943 to October 14 1943               Major Carl W. Payne

14 October 1943 to November 9 1943       Captain Robert E. McCarthy, Jr.

9 November 1943 to April 18 1944            Major Garth B. Jared

19 April to May 22 1944                            Major John W. Meador

22 May 1944 to October 11 1944              Lt. Colonel Victor E. Warford

12 October to February 16 1945               Major George T. Buck Jr.

16 February to May 9 1945                        Major Simon H. Johnson Jr.

9 May 1945 to August 1945                      Major Julius D. Shivers Jr.