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Meanwhile, on New Caledonia the 67th Fighter Squadron received orders to move to the Solomons. D.D. Brannon, now a captain, led five P-400s on a three-day overwater hop, first to Efate, then Espiritu Santo, and finally Cactus on August 22.
One of the squadrons that shared Henderson Field with the Marines was the 67th Fighter Squadron, a somewhat orphaned group of Army Air Corps pilots, who had arrived on 22 August, led by Captain Dale Brannon, and their P-400 Airacobras, an export version of the Bell P-39.
Constituted as 67 Pursuit Squadron (Interceptor) on 20 Nov 1940. Activated on 15 Jan 1941. Redesignated as: 67 Fighter Squadron on 15 May 1942; 67 Fighter Squadron, Single Engine, on 20
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They were joined on August 22 by the U.S. Army's 67th Pursuit Squadron under Major Dale Brannon, with five Army P-400s (an "export" version of the P-39); and on August 24, by 11 x SBD dive bombers from the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise because they were unable to land on their carrier, which was damaged in the Battle of the Eastern Solomons.
- 20 August 1942 – April 1943
Late in the afternoon of 22 August, the Cactus Air Force was augmented by a detachment of five Army Air Forces P-400s—the export version of the Bell P-39 Airacobra—of the 67th Fighter Squadron (“The Fighting Cocks”), under Captain Dale D. Brannon.
The Fighting Cocks of the 67th made a spectacular contribution that saved the Marine Raiders at Bloody Ridge, stopping the Japanese advance less than 1,000 yards from the airfield. By the summer of 1942, the Japanese had expanded their area of conquest in the southwest Pacific to the Solomon Islands.
The 67th Fighter Squadron "Fighting Cocks" is a fighter squadron of the United States Air Force, part of the 18th Operations Group at Kadena Air Base, Japan. The 67th is equipped with the F-15C/D Eagle .
