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The official predecessor of the Air Force was the Army's Auxiliary Aerial Militia Squadron (Escuadrilla Aérea de la Milicia Auxiliar del Ejército), created during the Mexican Revolution in April 1913 by the Secretary of War and Navy General Manuel Mondragón, who authorized pilots Miguel Lebrija and Juan Guillermo Villasana to test out bomb ...
An American P-47D Thunderbolt being flown by a member of the Mexican Expeditionary Air Force over the Philippines (1945) The rondel is an American marking. The Mexican Expeditionary Air Force (Spanish: Fuerza Aérea Expedicionaria Mexicana, FAEM) was a military aviation unit which represented Mexico on the Allied side during World War II. It is ...
The 201st Fighter Squadron (Spanish: Escuadrón Aéreo de Pelea 201) is a fighter squadron of the Mexican Air Force, part of the Mexican Expeditionary Air Force that aided the Allied war effort during World War II. The squadron was known by the nickname Águilas Aztecas or "Aztec Eagles", apparently coined by members of the squadron during ...
So Mexico decided to send to the war front a symbolic force to fight under the Mexican flag, providing that it would be an air force contingent in the Pacific campaign. Thus, in 1944, the 201st Squadron arrived in the United States for aviation training.
In the final year of the war, Mexico sent one air squadron to serve under the Mexican flag: the Mexican Air Force's Escuadrón Aéreo de Pelea 201 (201st Fighter Squadron), which saw combat in the Philippines in the war against Imperial Japan. [25]
Battles and operations of World War II involving Mexico (1 C, 2 P) M. Mexican military personnel of World War II (1 C, ...
The tactical forces form what is loosely called an Air Division, but it is dispersed in four regions: Northeast Mexico, Northwest Mexico, Central Mexico, and Southern Mexico. The Air Force maintains a total of 18 air bases, and has the additional capability of opening temporary forward operating bases in austere conditions for some helicopters ...
P47-D Thunderbolt, used by the 201st Fighter Squadron in World War 2. F-5 E Tiger II. The museum has 12 exhibition rooms and 24 galleries, as well as a control tower simulator, cafeteria, souvenir shop and 50 aircraft on display inside and outside the building, highlighting domestically manufactured aircraft such as the Pinocchio Plane, Azcárate O-E-1, LASA-60, TNCA Serie H, TNCA Series C ...