[4] The first F4U pilot to be decorated with the Medal of Honor came from VMF-124 — 1st Lt Kenneth A. Walsh for a mission on 30 August 1943, during which he shot down four Japanese Zeros before ditching his borrowed Corsair.

[5] When they received their orders for carrier assignments they had 5 combat experienced pilots as their training nucleus[6] VMF-124 left the States again on 18 September 1944, heading to Hawaii.

While deployed aboard the Essex, they took part in fighting over Lingayen, Luzon, Formosa, Tokyo, Iwo Jima and Okinawa.

On 12 January 1945 3 planes from VNF-124 shot down a four engined bomber over Indochina {Vietnam] that had refused to identify itself and had fired on the planes; this was a Friendly fire incident-the aircraft was a B-24 42-73429 of the 374th Bomb Squadron[7] The squadron was reformed shortly after the war at Naval Air Station Memphis and were equipped with the F4U-4 Corsair.

In 1969, for its two week annual training period, the squadron's fourteen A-4Bs supported the Reserve Marine Expeditionary Brigade Landing Exercise.