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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 ...
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.
Thus, in 1944, the 201st Squadron arrived in the United States for aviation training. A year later, in 1945, the Mexican squadron (known as the Aztec Eagles) was ready for battle; this squadron of fighter planes participated directly in the Philippines campaign alongside the United States Air Force and Royal Australian Air Force. [17]
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Gustavo Vázquez-Lozano at the Guadalajara International Book Fair in 2013. Gustavo Vázquez-Lozano (Aguascalientes, May 2, 1969) is a writer and Mexican editor. He is the author of four novels, a short story collection, a graphic novel, and more than 30 non-fiction works, especially 60 Years of Solitude: The Life of Empress Charlotte of Mexico, and The Aztec Eagles: The History of the Mexican ...
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] Mexico was the only Latin-American country to send troops to the Asia-Pacific theatre of the war.
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Tribuna Monumental, or the Monumento a las Águilas Caídas, [1] is a monument in Chapultepec, Mexico City, commemorating Mexican army officers in Squadron 201, who fought on the Pacific front during World War II. [2] [3]