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Photographs taken by 542 Squadron, a photographic reconnaissance unit, before the Grand Slam attack during the war were used to stake out the target with red flags and cameras were set up to film the drops. On 4 August the B-29s achieved six 1,650 lb (750 kg) bomb hits from 30,000–35,000 ft (9,100–10,700 m) and five Amazon II hits out of ...
Operation Grand Slam was a key military operation of the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965. ... comprising three battalions, and supported by a squadron of 20 Lancers, ...
Throughout Operation Desert Storm, VF-32 aircrew logged 1,445 combat flight hours on 403 missions, including 38 combat TARPS missions. After an eight-month deployment, the squadron returned to NAS Oceana on 28 March 1991. Later that year, the squadron won the 1991 AIRLANT Grand Slam missile firing competition with 17 of 17 scored kills. [2]
Pakistan Air Force under Operation Grand Slam and Indian Airforce under Operation Riddle engaged with each other with the last aerial combat taking place on 23 September 1965. From the gallery of 350 paintings by Rtd Grp Capt Syed Masood Akhtar Hussaini, Tamgha-e-Bisalat, Member American Society of Aviation Artists [ 1 ]
Avro Lancaster B.I (Special) of No. 617 Squadron, loaded with a 'Grand Slam' 22,000lb deep-penetration bomb, running up its engines at RAF Woodhall Spa, Lincolnshire, during 1944. An Avro Lincoln B.2
379th Supply Squadron, 1 April 1960 – 1 July 1963, c. 1 July 1975 – 1 September 1991 379th Transportation Squadron, c. 1 July 1975 – 1 September 1991 524th Bombardment Squadron , 3 November 1942 – 25 July 1945, [ 22 ] 1 November 1955 – 1 September 1991 [ 23 ]
Strike Fighter Squadron 211 (VFA-211), nicknamed the "Fighting Checkmates", is an aviation unit of the United States Navy established in 1945. The squadron is based at Naval Air Station Oceana and is equipped with the Boeing F/A-18E Super Hornet .
In February 1952 the squadron deployed to a French Air Force station to participate in Operation Grand Slam. When the squadron was mobilized, Tactical Air Command decided that the turret system on the B-26 Invader was obsolete. It grounded the squadron's experienced gunners and transferred them to other units.