Worn from:
26 May 1944 - 1 March 1955.

Some combat elements of this unit moved in the summer
of 1944 from the United States to India where they carried
out very heavy bombardment operations against targets in
Japan, Formosa, Thailand, and Burma. Other combat elements
began moving late in 1944 from the United States to the
Marianas, being joined there early in 1945 by the elements
that had been in India. From the Marianas, the Twentieth
conducted a strategic air offensive that was climaxed by
the dropping of two atomic bombs on Japan.

This unit also served in combat for a short time at the
beginning of the Korean War. Among the commanders of this
air force were General of the Army, Henry H. "Hap" Arnold,
Major General Curtis E. LeMay and Lieutenant General Nathan F.
Twining. The winged star represents the arm air forces, and
the arabic number twenty is the unit's designation. Both are
superimposed upon a globe. Activated 4 April 1944 at
Washington D.C.

Campaigns:
World War II
(American theater; India-Burma; Air Offensive, Japan;
China Defensive; Eastern Mandates; Western Pacific;
Central Burma).