Marine Fighting Squadron 452 (VMF-452) was a fighter squadron of the United States Marine Corps that was commissioned and fought during World War II. Known...

the Golden Gate Bridge). He served on the ill-fated USS Franklin in the VMF-452 "Skyraiders" Squadron, for which he designed the unit's logo. When the...

around El Toro. He was at various times assigned to MASG-46, VMF-512, VMF-323, VMF-312, VMF-452, and Marine Aircraft Group 12 (MAG-12), before transferring...

deactivation of MCVG-16 in March 1946, he served as commanding officer of VMF-452 until the following January. Axtell completed the Junior Course at Marine...

to "WB" in 1948. VP-HL-8 7 November 1946, U.S. Navy Letter ACL 156-46 VMF-452 4 August 1948, U.S. Navy Letter ACL 69-48 Disestablished in December 1949...

bombers VT-5: 6 TBF Avenger, 10 TBM Avenger torpedo bombers VMF-214: 18 F4U Corsair fighters VMF-452: 18 F4U Corsair fighters Randolph (Capt. F.L. Baker) Air...

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...

Carrier Group 3 on board the USS Vella Gulf (CVE-111). They were paired with VMF-513 during their deployment but never saw combat as the war ended. The squadron...

Corps VMF-111, based at Camp Kearney, Calif. VMF-112, based at Camp Kearney, Calif. VMD-2 VMF-211, based at Palmyra Atoll VMF-212, based at MCAS Ewa VMF-213...

conducted its first TransPac operations in January 1962, moving 18 F8U's of VMF-451 from MCAS El Toro to MCAS Iwakuni, Japan. The "Raiders" rapid response...

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...

F-89 crew members survive. 9 June A Grumman F9F-4 Panther, BuNo 125945, of VMF-213, flown by a USMC Reserve pilot crashes into a row of houses near Wold-Chamberlain...

was mistaken for a Japanese aircraft and attacked by a Grumman Wildcat of VMF-212 of the United States Marine Corps on 27 June 1942. After the war, a range...

carriers) Marine Escort Carrier Group 1 (MCVEG-1) on USS Block Island (CVE-106) VMF-511 (Goodyear FG-1D Corsair & Grumman F6F-5N Hellcat) VMTB-233 (Grumman TBM-3...

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...

along with six attack submarines. In addition, Soviet Naval Aviation (A-VMF) stationed MiG-23 fighters, Tupolev Tu-16s, Tupolev Tu-95s, and Tupolev Tu-142...

took on the aircraft and personnel of Marine Night Fighter Squadron 532 (VMF(N)-532), and steamed for the Mariana Islands. The squadron arrived on Saipan...

to their carrier, USS Bunker Hill. An opportunity for revenge came when VMF-123 Corsairs were surprised by Shidens, initially mistaken for Hellcats....

Dmitry Gorshkov (C) D 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) 84 kg (185 lb) 29 April 1967 CSK VMF Moscow 10 Marat Zakirov D 1.79 m (5 ft 10 in) 82 kg (181 lb) 8 November 1973...

Marine Corps. 16 December 1943. Retrieved 13 August 2020. Sherrod 1952, pp. 452. Boggs 1951, pp. 109. Chapin 1997, pp. 19. Boggs 1951, pp. 116.  This article...

Navy Cross posthumously for his actions leading Marine fighter squadron VMF-221 during the Battle of Midway. (Salisbury) Sterling Price, - 11th Governor...

aircraft made an appearance. The kamikaze was engaged by five fighters of VMF-311 operating off of Breton, and although they did heavily damage the aircraft...

 449–450. Gardner 2010, pp. 242. Sherrod 1952, pp. 252. Sherrod 1952, pp. 452. Gardner 2010, pp. 117–119. Gardner 2010, pp. 122–136. Sherrod 1952, pp. 552...

Guerra Civil Española (1936-1939). Instituto de Historia y Cultura Naval, p. 452. ISBN 84-7823-348-2 (in Spanish) Moreno, page 2998 Gretton, Peter (1984)...

John D. Cummings (radar intercept officer) of Marine Fighter Squadron 333 (VMF-333) operating from the aircraft carrier USS America shoot down a North Vietnamese...