5th Air Force Insignia

This United States Fifth Air Force uniform insignia is worn on the upper left sleeve of the dress uniform coat. When the 201st squadron arrived in the Philippines on May 1, 1945, they were assigned to the 58th Fighter Group, who as of February 1944, were now part of the Fifth Air Force. During that period, the units of the Fifth Air Force participated in operations that stopped the Japanese drive in Papua, recovered New Guinea, neutralized islands in the Bismarck Archipelago, the Netherlands' East Indies and the liberation of the Philippines. Due to their late entry in the war, the 201st contributions were for the liberation of the Philippines.

The insignia description is as follows:

"On a ultramarine blue disc, the Southern Cross consisting of five stars in white between a flaming comet, the head consisting of a white five point star, charged with a red roundel, within a blue disc outlined in white, it's tail consisting of three white streamers; all surrounded by an Arabic "5", golden orange."

 

Source:

Mauer, Mauer, edited by. "USAF Historical Division Air University, Department of the Air Force (1960)". Air Force Combat Units of World Wat II. Washington:U.S. Government Printing Office, 1961, pages 121-122, 460-461.