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The group was redesignated as the 14th Fighter Group (Air Defense) and reactivated on 18 August 1955 at Ethan Allen Air Force Base, Vermont [2] to replace the 517th Air Defense Group, whose mission, equipment, and personnel were transferred to the 14th [18] as part of ADC's Project Arrow, which was designed to bring back on the active list the ...
Initial Mission of the Wing was to receive operational orders from Headquarters, IX Fighter Command and direct subordinate groups in attacking enemy targets in Occupied France and the Low Countries in preparation for the Normandy Invasion in June 1944. Targets included bridges, roads, railroads and enemy interceptor aircraft both on the ground ...
The 14th Fighter Squadron is part of the 35th Fighter Wing at Misawa Air Base, Japan. It operates the F-16 Fighting Falcon aircraft conducting Wild Weasel missions. The squadron has been stationed at Misawa since 1987.
The Foggia Airfield Complex was a series of World War II military airfields located within a 40 km (25 mi) radius of Foggia, in the Province of Foggia, Italy.The airfields were used by the United States Army Air Forces' Fifteenth Air Force as part of the strategic bombardment campaign against Nazi Germany in 1944 and 1945, as well as the Twelfth Air Force, the British Royal Air Force and the ...
35th Pursuit Group, 1 January 1941 – 15 January 1942; US Army Forces in Fiji, 28 January 1942; 347th Fighter Group, 3 October 1942; 18th Fighter Group, 30 March 1943; 347th Fighter Group, 1 November – 26 December 1945; 347th Tactical Fighter Wing, 30 September 1975 (attached to 86th Tactical Fighter Wing 29 August – 28 September 1989)
355th Fighter Group: 18 July – c. 10 August 1945 [9] 363d Tactical Reconnaissance Group: assigned 1 October 1944, attached 1 December 1944 – 18 May 1945 [10] 366th Fighter Group: assigned 1 October 1944 – 22 October 1944; attached 28 January – 21 June 1945 [11] 370th Fighter Group: 1 February 1945 – September 1945 [citation needed]
The squadron began carrier operations on board the Navy's first aircraft carrier USS Langley in 1926. The squadron, then designated Fighter Plane Squadron One, set the record for carrier landings in a single day. Flying the TS-1, they logged 127 traps by the end of flight operations. In 1929 the squadron was assigned to USS Saratoga, where it ...
In addition to the core Fourteenth Air Force (14AF) structure, a second group, the Chinese-American Composite Wing (CACW), existed as a combined 1st Bomber, 3rd Fighter, and 5th Fighter Group with pilots from both the United States and the Republic of China. U.S. service personnel destined for the CACW entered the China theater in mid-July 1943.