Groups Recognized
by the Air Force Under Public Law 95-202
[Air-related
Groups in Red]
[Ocean-related Groups in Blue]
| 1. | Women's Airforces Service Pilots [WASPs] (WWII) | March 1979 |
| 2. | Signal Corps Female Telephone Operators Units (WWI) | May 1979 |
| 3. | Engineer Field Clerks (WWI) | August 1979 |
| 4. | Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) (WWII) | March 1980 |
| 5. | Civilian Employees, Pacific Naval Air Bases, Who Actively Participated in the Defense of Wake Island During WWII | January 1981 |
| 6. | Quartermaster Corps Female Clerical Employees Serving with the American Expeditionary Forces ((WWI) | January 1981 |
| 7. | Reconstruction Aides and Dietitians in WWI | July 1981 |
| 8. | Male Civilian Ferry Pilots (WWII) | July 1981 |
| 9. | Wake Island defenders from Guam (WWII) | April 1982 |
| 10. | Civilian Personnel Assigned to the Secret Intelligence Element of the OSS (WWII) | December 1982 |
| 11. | Guam Combat Patrol (WWII) | May 1983 |
| 12. | Quartermaster Corps Keswick Crew on Corregidor (WWII) | February 1984 |
| 13. | U.S. Civilian Volunteers Who Actively Participated in the Defense of Bataan (WWII) | February 1984 |
| 14. | U.S. Merchant Seamen Who Served on Blockships in Support of Operation Mulberry (WWII) | October 1985 |
| 15. | American Merchant Marine in Oceangoing Service during the Period of Armed Conflict, December 7, 1941 to August 15, 1945 (WWII) | January 1988 |
| 16. | Civilian U.S. Navy IFF Technicians Who Served in the Combat Areas of the Pacific During World War II (December 7, 1941 to August 15, 1945) (WWII) | August 1988 |
| 17. | U.S. Civilians of the American Field Service (AFS) Who Served Overseas Operationally During the Period August 31, 1917 to January 1, 1918 (WWI) | August 1990 |
| 18. | U.S. Civilians of the American Field Service (AFS) Who Served Overseas Under U.S. Armies and U.S. Army Groups in During the Period December 7, 1941 through May 8, 1945 (WWII) | August 1990 |
| 19. | U.S. Civilian Flight Crew and Aviation Ground Support Employees of American Airlines Who Served Overseas as a result of American Airlines' Contract with Air Transport Command During the Period December 14, 1941 through August 14, 1945 (WWII) | October 1990 |
| 20. | Civilian Crewmen of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey vessels who performed their service in areas of immediate military hazard while conducting cooperative operations with and for the United States Armed Forces within a time frame of December 7, 1941 to August 15, 1945 (WWII) (Qualifying vessels are: the Derickson, Explorer, Gilber, Hilgard, E. Lester Jones, Lydonia Patton, Surveyor, Wainwright, Westdahl, Oceanographer, Hydrographer and Pathfinder) | April 1991 |
| 21. | Honorably Discharged Members of the American Volunteer Group (Flying Tigers) Who Served During the Period December 7, 1941 to July 18, 1942 (WWII) | May 1991 |
| 22. | U.S. Civilian Flight Crew and Aviation Ground Support Employees of United Air Lines (UAL), Who Served Overseas as a Result of UAL's Contract With the Air Transport Command During the Period December 14, 1941 through August 14, 1945 (WWII) | May 1992 |
| 23. | U.S. Civilian Flight Crew and Aviation Ground Support Employees of Transcontinental and Western Air (TWA), Inc., Who Served Overseas as a Result of TWA's Contract with the Air Transport Command during the Period December 14, 1941 through August 14, 1945 (WWII) | May 1992 |
| 24. | American Field Service (AFS) who served honorably on flights with the 3d Combat Cargo Squadron, Army Air Forces, December 7, 1941 through August 14, 1945 (Addendum to August 30, 1990 AFS (WWII) SAF decision) (WWII) | May 1992 |
| 25. | Addendum which adds three ships (Oceanographer, Hydrographer, and Pathfinder) to the April 8, 1991 USCGS SAF decision (WWII) | May 1992 |
| 26. | U.S. Civilian Flight Crew and Aviation Ground Support Employees of Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation (Convair Division), Who Served Overseas as a Result of a Contract with the Air Transport Command during the Period (WWII) U.S. Civilian Flight Crew and Aviation Ground Support during the Period December 7, 1941 through August 14, 1945 (WWII). | June 1992 |
| 27. | Honorably Discharged Members of the American Volunteer Guard, Eritrea Service Command During the Period June 21, 1942 to March 31, 1943 (WWII) | June 1992 |
| 28. | Addendum for "oceangoing" merchant marine (includes U.S. Army Corps Engineers, U.S. Army Coast Artillery Corps, or U.S. Army Air Force) (WWII) | June 1992 |
| 29. | U.S. Civilian Flight Crew and Aviation Ground Support Employees of Pan American World Airways and its subsidiaries and affiliates, Who Served Overseas as a Result of Pan American's Contract With the Air Transport Command and Naval Air Transport Service During the Period December 14, 1941 through August 14, 1945 (WWII) | July 1992 |
| 30. | U.S. Civilian Flight Crew and Aviation Ground Support Employees of Eastern Air Lines-Military Transport Division (EAL-MTD), Who Served Overseas as a Result of EAL-MTD's Contract With the Air Transport Command During the Period December 14, 1941 through August 14, 1945 (WWII) | November 1992 |
| 31. | USAF U.S. Civilian Flight Crew and Aviation Ground Support Employees of Northwest Airlines, Who Served Overseas as a Result of Northwest Airline's Contract with the Air Transport Command during the Period December 14, 1941 through August 14, 1945 (WWII) | December 1993 |
| 32. | U.S. Civilian Female Employees of the U.S. Army Nurse Corps While Serving in the Defense of Bataan and Corregidor During the Period January 2, 1942 to June 12, 1945 (WWII) | December 1993 |
| 33. | U.S. Civilian Flight Crew and Aviation Ground Support Employees of Braniff Airways, who served overseas in the North Atlantic or under the jurisdiction of the North Atlantic Wing as a result of a contract with Air Transport Command during the period February 26, 1942, to August 14, 1945 (WWII) | June 1997 |
| 34. | U.S. Civilian Flight Crew and Aviation Ground Support Employees of Northeast Airlines Atlantic Division, who served overseas in the result Northeast Airlines' contract with the Air Transport Command during the Period December 7, 1941, to August 14, 1945 (WWII) | June 1997 |
| 35. | The group described as the ``three scouts/guides,'' Miguel Tenorio, Penedicto Taisacan, and Cristino Dela Cruz, who assisted the U.S. Marines in the offensive operations against the Japanese on the Northern Mariana Islands from June 19, 1944, through September 2, 1945; | Sept. 1999 |
| 36. | Approximately 50 Chamorro and Carolinian policemen, who received military training and under the command of the 6th Provisional Military Police Battalion, to accompany U.S. Marines in combat patrol activity from August 19, 1945, to September 2, 1945. (WWII) | Sept. 1999 |
| 37. | Operational Analysis Group of the Office of Scientific Research and Development, who served overseas from December 7, 1941, through August 15, 1945. (WWII) | Aug. 1999 |
| 38. | Service as a member of the Alaska Territorial Guard during World War II of any individual who was honorably discharged under section 8147 of the Department of Defense Appropriations Act of 2001 (P.L. 106-259) (WWII) | Aug. 2000 |
| 39. | Reconsideration of `Pursers' as part of the Flight Crews of U.S. Civilian Flight Crew and Aviation Ground Support Employees of Transcontinental and Western Air (TWA), Inc., Who Served Overseas as a Result of TWA's Contract with the Air Transport Command during the Period December 14, 1941, through August 14, 1945. (WWII) | Feb. 2003 |
6/5/00 Revised 5/21/09
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