Marine Fighting Squadron 422 (VMF-422) was a Vought F4U Corsair squadron in the United States Marine Corps. The squadron, also known as the "Flying Buccaneers"...
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arriving on Engebi island 19 February. At that time composed of VMF-113, VMF-422, and VMF(N)-533, flying the Vought F4U Corsair and Grumman F6F Hellcat...
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Weather Central Pacific Main article: VMF-422 23 USMC F4U Corsair fighter aircraft of the Marine fighter squadron VMF-422 took off at 10:00 at Hawkins Field...
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tour of overseas duty. He flew with VMF-422 in the Marshall Islands until May 1945, when he was transferred to VMF-212, engaged in the Okinawa campaign...
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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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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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January forced down 22 of 23 Vought F4U-1D Corsairs of Marine squadron VMF-422 during a routine flight between the Gilbert and Ellice Islands, with all...
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received a letter of censure for the loss of 6 pilots and 22 planes of VMF-422 in January 1944 for refusing to provide an escort plane. From September...
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VMFA(AW)-224 (redirect from VMF-224)
expeditionary, joint, or combined operations. Marine Fighter Squadron 224 (VMF-224) was commissioned on 1 May 1942 at Marine Corps Air Station Ewa Hawaii...
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VF-213 VF-881 VF-882 United States Marine Corps VMF-113 VMF-114 VMF-115 VMF-215 VMF-314 VMF-513 VMFA-531 VMF(AW)-542 VX-3 NACA/NASA XF4D-1 124587 – In front...
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The Marine Detachment was supplemented by Marine Corps Fighter Squadron VMF-211, consisting of 12 F4F-3 Wildcat fighters, commanded by Marine aviator...
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Silva 2014 Brazil (Goias, Mato Grosso, Tocantins) Hrbek, T., da Silva, V.M.F., Dutra, N., Gravena, W., Martin, A.R. & Farias, I.P. 2014. A New Species...
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United States Marine Corps F4U Corsairs of Marine Fighter Squadron 124 (VMF-124) shot down a four-engine bomber over French Indochina that had refused...
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carrier-borne F4Us. The F4U Corsair was a regularly featured aircraft of VMF-214 in the 1976–1978 television series Baa Baa Black Sheep, based on the...
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first combat mission: a strafing run with VMF-222 near the Japanese garrison of Rabaul. He also flew with VMF-216, from the Marine Air Base at Torokina...
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(in Russian) Shirokorad, Aleksandr Borisovich (2002). Korabli i katera: VMF SSSR 1939 - 1945 gg.; spravochnik (in Russian). Minsk: Kharvest. p. 818....
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aircraft was only used in combat once, when Marine Corps night fighter squadron VMF(N)-513 flying F7F-3Ns saw action in the early stages of the Korean War, shooting...
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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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ISBN 9781135774783 S.V. Patianin (2009). "Korabli Vtoroi mirovoi voiny. VMF SSSR 1941-1945 gg". Morskaya Kampaniya (in Russian). No. 3(24)/2009. pp. 54–56...
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union team. Gregory Boyington: AVG/US Marine Corps; later commanded USMC VMF-214, the "Black Sheep Squadron". Clive Caldwell: RAAF, highest-scoring P-40...
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Official Guide & Record Book/2011. Triumph Books. p. 308. ISBN 978-1-60078-422-4. "Another signing for Sochi" (in Russian). Kontinental Hockey League. 2014-05-19...
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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...
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against enemy Japanese forces. Mayberry served with Marine fighter squadron VMF-123, flying F4U Corsair fighter aircraft, and was credited with shooting...
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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...
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Spanish Republic at war, 1936-1939. Cambridge University Press, 2002, page 422. ISBN 0-521-45932-X Alicante recuerda al galés que salvó a miles de republicanos...
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K-114 Tula, Barents Sea VMF VMF Suborbital Missile test 8 May Successful 8 May R-29R Volna K-223 Podolsk, Sea of Okhotsk VMF VMF Suborbital Missile test...
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