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The P-61 radar operator occupied a separate compartment in the rear of the fuselage accessed from a hatch below. In August 1940, sixteen months before the United States entered the war, the U.S. Air Officer in London, Lieutenant General Delos C. Emmons, was briefed on British research in radar ("Radio Detection And Ranging" as it was then known), which had been underway since 1935, and had ...
Over 60 P-40Cs were destroyed on the ground at Wheeler. The group, assigned to Seventh Air Force in February 1942, had to be re-equipped before it could resume training and begin patrol missions. During March 1943, the group moved to the South Pacific Theater and rejoined the war effort as part of Thirteenth Air Force and began operations from ...
The P-82C featured a new nacelle (under the center wing section) housing an SCR-720 radar. The SCR-720 was the same radar installation which was carried aboard the Northrop P-61 Black Widow, a considerably larger aircraft. The right-hand cockpit became the radar operator's position. The production version was designated P-82G. P-82D
This is a list of fighter aces in World War II from United States. ... P-61 night fighter ace [36] George C. Axtell: USMC 6 NC, DFC "Ace in a day" 22 April 1945 [37]
Luke Air Force Base (IATA: LUF, ICAO: KLUF, FAA LID: LUF) is a United States Air Force base in Maricopa County, Arizona, United States. [2] It is located 7 miles (6.1 nmi; 11 km) west of the central business district of Glendale, and 15 miles (13 nmi; 24 km) west of Phoenix.
Northrop P-61 Black Widow, an American night fighter aircraft; BRM P61, a Formula One racing car; P61 road (Ukraine) Papyrus 61, a biblical manuscript; P61, a state regional road in Latvia; Sea Tiger (P61), a fictional submarine in the film We Dive at Dawn
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P-47D 44-19770, 61st Fighter Squadron, 56th FG, pilot Arthur Joseph Bux Jr. Republic P-47D-22-RE Thunderbolt 42-26057 of the 63d Fighter Squadron in D-Day invasion markings, 1944. Pilot 2nd Lt. Elwood D. Raymond, KIA on September 18th, 1944 by flak and crashed in North Sea. Republic P-47C-2-RE Thunderbolts of the 61st Fighter Squadron, 1942.