Dallas L. Willis, Commander/Chaplin * Susan J. Monaghan, Treasurer/Newsletter * Sid & Shirley Groff, Corresponding Secretaries


This website is dedicated to the men who proudly served in the United States Marine Corps, Squadron VMD-154. During World War II, this squadron was under the command of the 1st Marine Aircraft Wing. VMD-154, an aerial reconnaissance squadron, was stationed at Camp Elrod on Espiritu Santo Island, New Hebrides (now Vanuatu) in the South Pacific. Their Commanding Officer was Colonel Elliott E. Bard. Squadron reconnaissance missions included the locations of: Guadalcanal, Munda, Kolombangara, Bougainville, Shortland, Nauru, Ocean, Truk, Tarawa, and Makin. To submit copies of photos, flight logs, or squadron historical documents please e-mail us at vmd154.reunion.assn@insightbb.com

Association

• Acknowledgments
• Association History
• Reunion Photos
• Reunions

Art & Literature

• Art Gallery 1
• Art Gallery 2
• Santo Revisited
• Squadron Movie
• Squadron Patch
• Squadron Poems

Camp Elrod

• Camp Elrod Map

Citations

• Commendations
• Presidential

Deployment

• Advance Echelon
• Forward Echelon
• M. V. Bloemfontein
• S. S. Japara
• S. S. President Polk

Historical Photos

Links

Memorials

• MIA and Mishap
• Memorial Biographies
• Memorial Supplement

Muster Rolls

• February 1943
• July 1943

Squadron History

• Bauer Memoir
• Ellis Memoir
• The Pathfinders
• Sorties - Nov 1942
• Timeline
• Transfers - Mar 1944

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This website was created April 16, 2003
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Disclaimer: This website, webmaster S. Monaghan, and the officers and members of VMD-154 Reunion Association are not official representatives of the United States Government, the Department of Defense, the Department of the Navy, or the United States Marine Corps. This website was created to preserve the history of VMD-154, a World War II Marine photographic squadron. All rights reserved.