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No. 82 Wing is the strike and reconnaissance wing of the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF). It is headquartered at RAAF Base Amberley, Queensland.Coming under the control of Air Combat Group, the wing operates F/A-18F Super Hornet multirole fighters, EA-18G Growler electronic warfare aircraft, and Pilatus PC-21 forward air control aircraft.
In his first tour of duty in Southeast Asia from September to December 1970, he flew combat missions in the B-52 from U-Tapao Royal Thai Navy Airfield.After his return to United States, Bennett completed conversion training to the OV-10 Bronco and was assigned as a forward air controller with the 20th Tactical Air Support Squadron at Da Nang Air Base in South Vietnam in late April 1972.
Canberra T.4, an example of a three-seat, dual-control model employed for conversion training at No. 1 OCU. During World War II, the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) established several operational training units (OTUs) to convert recently graduated pilots from advanced trainers to combat aircraft, and to add fighting ability to the flying skills they had already learned.
Highest Traditions: The History of No. 2 Squadron, RAAF is a 1995 book by John Bennett. [1] [2] [3] It is a history of No. 2 Squadron of the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF).It covers the period from its formation in 1916 during World War I as part of the Australian Flying Corps, the transition to the RAAF, service during World War II and postwar conflicts in Asia, to its disbanding in 1982 ...
At this point, the attack became confused, as all 31 remaining Dauntlesses moved to attack Kaga. Best expected to attack according to U.S. dive bomber doctrine, which stated that the trailing squadron (VB-6) would attack the nearer target (in this case Kaga ), while the leading squadron (VS-6) would take the farther of the two (here Akagi ).
Bennett (who was always known as Gordon) was born in Balwyn, Melbourne, on 15 April 1887, to George Bennett, a South African-born school teacher, and his Australian-born wife, Harriet. He was the sixth of nine children and attended Balwyn State School, where his father taught, and then Hawthorn College as a teenager having been given a three ...
VA-153 was an Attack Squadron of the U.S. Navy. During a 1949 reorganization of the Naval Air Reserve, a Fighter Squadron at NAS New York (believed to have been VF-718 ) was redesignated Fighter Squadron VF-831 .
Bennett and Taven returned to NJPW on April 5, 2015, at Invasion Attack 2015, where they defeated Bullet Club (Doc Gallows and Karl Anderson) to win the IWGP Tag Team Championship. [16] [17] On July 5 at Dominion 7.5 in Osaka-jo Hall, The Kingdom lost the IWGP Tag Team Championship back to Bullet Club in their first defense. [18]