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Philadelphia Fighter Wing
The Philadelphia Fighter Wing is an inactive United States Air Force unit. Its last assignment was with the I Fighter Command, stationed at Philadelphia Airport, Pennsylvania, where it was inactivated on 3 April 1946. History The wing was a World War II air defense organization, reporting to First Air Force, responsible for the air defense of the Philadelphia area. The wing was also a training organization for fighter groups and personnel, with assigned groups subsequently deploying to overseas theaters. Not manned after July 1944, and inactivated at the end of the war. Lineage * Constituted as the Philadelphia Air Defense Wing on 6 August 1942 : Activated on 11 August 1942 : Redesignated Philadelphia Fighter Wing c. 2 July 1943 : Inactivated on 3 April 1946 : Disbanded on 8 October 1948Maurer, ''Combat Units'', p. 428 Assignments * I Fighter Command, 11 August 1942 – 3 April 1946 Components * 33d Fighter Group: 11 August – November 1942 * 58th Fighter Group: 24 Octo ...
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United States Army Air Force
The United States Army Air Forces (USAAF or AAF) was the major land-based aerial warfare service component of the United States Army and ''de facto'' aerial warfare service branch of the United States during and immediately after World War II (1941–1945). It was created on 20 June 1941 as successor to the previous United States Army Air Corps and is the direct predecessor of the United States Air Force, today one of the six armed forces of the United States. The AAF was a component of the United States Army, which on 2 March 1942 was divided functionally by executive order into three autonomous forces: the Army Ground Forces, the United States Army Services of Supply (which in 1943 became the Army Service Forces), and the Army Air Forces. Each of these forces had a commanding general who reported directly to the Army Chief of Staff. The AAF administered all parts of military aviation formerly distributed among the Air Corps, General Headquarters Air Force, and the groun ...
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366th Fighter Group
366th may refer to: *366th Bombardment Squadron, inactive United States Air Force unit *366th Division (IDF), also known as the "Path of Fire" Division, a reserve armored division of the IDF *366th Fighter Squadron, inactive United States Air Force unit *366th Fighter Wing, 366th Fighter-Bomber (later, 366th Operations), in the United States Air Force Air Combat Command *366th Infantry Regiment (United States), African American (segregated) unit of the United States Army, served with distinction in both World Wars *366th Motor Rifle Regiment or 7th Guards Cavalry Corps of the Soviet Union's Red Army was a cavalry corps active during the Second World War *366th Operations Group, the flying component of the 366th Fighter Wing, assigned to the United States Air Force Air Combat Command See also *366 (number) *366, the year 366 (CCCLXVI) of the Julian calendar *366 BC __NOTOC__ Year 366 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Con ...
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365th Fighter Group
365th may refer to: *365th Bombardment Squadron, inactive United States Air Force unit *365th Electronic Warfare Group previously 1st Search Attack Group, United States Army Air Forces unit that served during World War II. 365 EWG was a 'paper' designation given to the unit when it did not have physical form, equipment, or personnel. * 365th Fighter Group or 132nd Fighter Wing (132d W), United States Air Force unit assigned to the Iowa Air National Guard *365th Fighter Squadron 365th may refer to: * 365th Bombardment Squadron, inactive United States Air Force unit *365th Electronic Warfare Group previously 1st Search Attack Group, United States Army Air Forces unit that served during World War II. 365 EWG was a 'paper' de ... or 163d Fighter Squadron, unit of the Indiana Air National Guard 122d Fighter Wing See also * 365 (number) * 365 (other) * 365, the year 365 (CCCLXV) of the Julian calendar * 365 BC * * {{mil-unit-dis ...
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361st Fighter Group
The 127th Operations Group is a unit of the Michigan Air National Guard. It is stationed at Selfridge Air National Guard Base and 1s one of two flying groups assigned to the 127th Wing. The group operates Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II ground attack aircraft. The group was first formed during World War II as the 361st Fighter Group. It served in the European Theater of Operations as part of VIII Fighter Command, flying its last mission on 20 April 1945. In 1946, the group was allotted to the Air National Guard as the 127th Fighter Group. In 1951, as a result of the Korean War, the group was called to active duty, and trained pilots for the United States Air Force as the 127th Pilot Training Group. In November 1952, it was returned to the Michigan Air National Guard as the 127th Fighter-Bomber Group. in 1955, it became the 127th Fighter-Interceptor Group and in 1958 converted to the aerial reconnaissance mission as the 127th Tactical Reconnaissance Group. It ...
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358th Fighter Group
358th may refer to: *358th Bombardment Squadron, inactive United States Air Force unit * 358th Fighter Group, inactive United States Army Air Force unit * 358th Fighter Squadron (358 FS), part of the 355th Fighter Wing at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona See also * 358 (number) *358, the year 358 (CCCLVIII) of the Julian calendar *358 BC __NOTOC__ Year 358 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Ambustus and Proculus (or, less frequently, year 396 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 358 BC for this year has b ...
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355th Fighter Group
355th may refer to: Aviation *355th Fighter Squadron, an inactive United States Air Force unit *355th Fighter Wing, a United States Air Force unit assigned to the Air Combat Command's Twelfth Air Force *355th Tactical Airlift Squadron, a U.S. Air Force squadron based at Rickenbacker Air National Guard Base *355th Troop Carrier Squadron, an inactive United States Air Force unit *355th Operations Group, a United States Air Force unit, assigned to the 355th Wing *355th Aviation Company, of the United States Army * No. 355 Squadron RAF, WWII long range bombing squadron of the British Royal Air Force *355th Reconnaissance Aviation Squadron, a Cold War era unit of the Yugoslav Air Force Ground forces *355th Infantry Regiment (United States), an infantry regiment of the United States Army *355th Division (Imperial Japanese Army), a WWII home defence infantry division ** 355th Infantry Regiment (Imperial Japanese Army), part of the 355th Division (Imperial Japanese Army) *355th Rifle Divisi ...
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353d Fighter Group
The 116th Operations Group is a Georgia Air National Guard unit assigned to the 116th Air Control Wing. The unit is stationed at Robins Air Force Base, Georgia. The 116th Group controls all operational Northrop Grumman E-8C Joint STARS aircraft of the 116th Air Control Wing. It was activated in 1992, when the Air Force implemented the Objective Wing organization, and was successively equipped with the McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle and the Rockwell B-1 Lancer before converting to the E-8C in 2002. The unit was first activated during World War II as the 353d Fighter Group, a Republic P-47 Thunderbolt fighter unit assigned to VIII Fighter Command in Western Europe, which later converted to the North American P-51 Mustang. The group received a Distinguished Unit Citation for its air support during Operation Market Garden, the airborne invasion of the Netherlands. Postwar, in 1946, the group was redesignated the 116th Fighter Group and became part of the Georgia Air National Guard. I ...
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327th Fighter Group
3 (three) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number following 2 and preceding 4, and is the smallest odd prime number and the only prime preceding a square number. It has religious or cultural significance in many societies. Evolution of the Arabic digit The use of three lines to denote the number 3 occurred in many writing systems, including some (like Roman and Chinese numerals) that are still in use. That was also the original representation of 3 in the Brahmic (Indian) numerical notation, its earliest forms aligned vertically. However, during the Gupta Empire the sign was modified by the addition of a curve on each line. The Nāgarī script rotated the lines clockwise, so they appeared horizontally, and ended each line with a short downward stroke on the right. In cursive script, the three strokes were eventually connected to form a glyph resembling a with an additional stroke at the bottom: ३. The Indian digits spread to the Caliphate in the 9th ...
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324th Fighter Group
3 (three) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number following 2 and preceding 4, and is the smallest odd prime number and the only prime preceding a square number. It has religious or cultural significance in many societies. Evolution of the Arabic digit The use of three lines to denote the number 3 occurred in many writing systems, including some (like Roman and Chinese numerals) that are still in use. That was also the original representation of 3 in the Brahmic (Indian) numerical notation, its earliest forms aligned vertically. However, during the Gupta Empire the sign was modified by the addition of a curve on each line. The Nāgarī script rotated the lines clockwise, so they appeared horizontally, and ended each line with a short downward stroke on the right. In cursive script, the three strokes were eventually connected to form a glyph resembling a with an additional stroke at the bottom: ३. The Indian digits spread to the Caliphate in the 9th ...
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Air Defense
Anti-aircraft warfare, counter-air or air defence forces is the battlespace response to aerial warfare, defined by NATO as "all measures designed to nullify or reduce the effectiveness of hostile air action".AAP-6 It includes surface based, subsurface ( submarine launched), and air-based weapon systems, associated sensor systems, command and control arrangements, and passive measures (e.g. barrage balloons). It may be used to protect naval, ground, and air forces in any location. However, for most countries, the main effort has tended to be homeland defence. NATO refers to airborne air defence as counter-air and naval air defence as anti-aircraft warfare. Missile defence is an extension of air defence, as are initiatives to adapt air defence to the task of intercepting any projectile in flight. In some countries, such as Britain and Germany during the Second World War, the Soviet Union, and modern NATO and the United States, ground-based air defence and air defence aircra ...
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