Tarawa Atoll dropped 20 bombs on Nanumea. On September 19th, F4F-4s of VMF-441 landed on the strip and continued to use the runway for the remainder of...
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Marine Fighting Squadron 441 (VMF-441) was a fighter squadron of the Marine Forces Reserve during the Cold War. Originally commissioned during World War...
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Division Tupolev Tu-160 (NATO reporting name: Blackjack), a Russian bomber VMF-441, nicknamed The Blackjacks, a United States Marine Corps fighter squadron...
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On 22 April, 12 B-24 aircraft bombed Tarawa. Marine Fighting Squadron 441 (VMF-441), flying the F4F Wildcat, operated from Funafuti from May to September...
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California. It saw combat in the Pacific Theater of Operations with the VMF-441 "Blackjacks". One of eight Corsairs to appear in the 1970s NBC series Baa...
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ISBN 1-55750-840-2. Wolf, William (1999). Death Rattlers: Marine Squadron VMF-323 Over Okinawa. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Military History. ISBN 0764309536...
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Battalion, extended the runway to 6,600 feet (2,000 meters) in April 1943. VMF-441 a Marine Fighting Squadron, did missions with F4F Wildcat, operated from...
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VMF squadrons continued to operate after the war with most in the Marine Air Reserve; however, with the retirement of the Vought F-8 Crusader the VMF...
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Marine Fighting Squadron 213 (VMF-213) was a reserve fighter squadron in the United States Marine Corps. Nicknamed the "Hell Hawks", the squadron fought...
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First aboard were Marine Aircraft Group 41 and VMF-113. They were followed later in the month by VMSB-142, VMF-224, VMSB-231 and VMSB-232, who were returning...
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F9F-2s of VMF-311 at Pohang in 1951...
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which was just entering service with the United States. A small team from VMF-323, a Marine FJ-4 Fury squadron with later assistance from China Lake and...
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flying Shidens initially mistook Corsairs from Marine Fighter Squadron 123 (VMF-123) for Hellcats and attacked. A 30-minute aerial duel ensued, in which...
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battlecruiser hull) Lun-class ekranoplan (Commissioned as a ship and used as one). VMF Kommuna is a salvage vessel, and having been launched in 1915, one of the...
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used some of these aircraft to establish their first night fighter squadron VMF(N)-531. Due to the poor performance of the SB2A, many of the completed aircraft...
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PVO 964 IAP PVO Soviet Naval Aviation 2 GvIAP VVS VMF 3 GvIAP VVS VMF 27 IAP VVS VMF 78 IAP VVS VMF Turkey bought Hurricanes in 1939. Turkish Air Force...
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California, where Major Joe Foss was forming up a Corsair fighter squadron, VMF-115 Shettle, USMC Air Stations of WWII, p.147. Shettle, USMC Air Stations...
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service at Peleliu. While group commander of MAG-11 at Peleliu, his pilots of VMF-122 began what they called "Operation Freeze". In these missions, a single...
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doi:10.1098/rspb.2000.1385. PMC 1088639. PMID 11296868. Hrbek, T.; da Silva, V.M.F.; Dutra, N.; Gravena, W.; Martin, A.R.; Farias, I.P.; Turvey, S.T. (2014)...
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Sloman, RD; De Boeck, G; Scott, GR; Iftikar, FI; Wood, CM; Almeida-Val, VMF (2009). "The role of size in synchronous air breathing of Hoplosternum littorale"...
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