Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I uru te 454 ki te haerenga ki Roma, te
te whakaekenga o te tonga o Wīwī, me te hinga o ngā ope Axis i Itari ki te raki. I whakawhiwhia ki te 454th he Tohu Tohu Tohu (DUC) mo te mahi rite ki te wheketere rererangi Messerschmitt matua i Bad Vöslau, Austria i te 12 o Aperira 1944. I whakawhiwhia ki a ia te DUC tuarua mo "te mahi tino pai i roto i te pakanga patu me te hoariri" hei hua o ta raatau miihana ki nga Hermann Goering Steel Works i Linz, Austria i te 25 o Hurae 1944.