The VII Fighter Command was a command and control organization of the United States Army Air Forces. Its last assignment was with Far East Air Forces...
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escorted by Iwo Jima-based P-51 Mustang very-long-range fighters from the VII Fighter Command, and the Americans claimed to have shot down 101 Japanese...
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Seventh Air Force (redirect from Pacific Air Command)
Air Force. VII Bomber Command replaced the 18th Bombardment Wing VII Fighter Command replaced the 14th Pursuit Wing VII Base Command assumed responsibility...
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15th Wing (redirect from 15th Fighter Group)
Fighter Group (along with the 21st Fighter Group and the VII Fighter Command) were reassigned to Twentieth Air Force. The group continued its fighter...
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318th Fighter Group (along with the 15th and 21st from the VII Fighter Command) was reassigned to the Twentieth Air Force and continued its fighter sweeps...
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Space Delta 2 (redirect from 21st Fighter Group)
Force's VII Fighter Command on 24 April 1944. The 21st Fighter Group consisted of the 46th Fighter Squadron, 72nd Fighter Squadron, and 531st Fighter Squadron...
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172nd Attack Squadron (redirect from 172d Fighter Squadron)
World War II as the 375th Fighter Squadron. It saw combat in the European Theater of Operations as an element of VII Fighter Command before returning to the...
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North American P-51 Mustang (redirect from Mustang fighter)
common. With the capture of Iwo Jima, USAAF P-51 Mustang fighters of the VII Fighter Command were stationed on that island starting in March 1945, being...
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fighter escorts and 3,081 strike sorties were flown from Iwo Jima against Japan. A more recent Air Force study found the contribution of VII Fighter Command...
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Mustang and in January 1945, was assigned to the 15th Fighter Group of the VII Fighter Command. In the same month, the squadron was sent to Mariana Islands...
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Jerry Yellin (section The Last Fighter Pilot)
17th. However, Yellin's mission may have been the last flown by VII Fighter Command from Iwo Jima, and the last mission of the war itself.[citation needed]...
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623d Air Control Squadron (redirect from 623d Airborne Command and Control Flight)
302nd Fighter Control Squadron. On 15 August 1944 the squadron was relieved from assignment to the VII Fighter Command and joined the 7th Fighter Wing...
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and 20 B-29s.[citation needed] Central Field was headquarters for VII Fighter Command of the Twentieth Air Force from March 1 – December 1, 1945,: 445 ...
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The VII Bomber Command is an inactive United States Air Force unit. Its last assignment was with Seventh Air Force, based on Okinawa. It was inactivated...
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Air Force, which was originally formed in Hawaii as the Army Air defense command for the islands. After the Pearl Harbor Attack on 7 December 1941, Seventh...
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Pacific Ocean Areas (redirect from Pacific Ocean Areas (command))
Air Force was left only VII Bomber Command and VII Fighter Command. The other AAFPOA operating forces were XXI Bomber Command and the Hawaiian Air Defense...
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549th Combat Training Squadron (redirect from 549th Night Fighter Squadron)
fighter pilots and the aerospace power component to the US Army's brigade combat training. The unit was originally formed as the 549th Night Fighter Squadron...
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Reconnaissance Command III Tactical Air Command IV Bomber Command IV Fighter Command V Bomber Command V Fighter Command VI Bomber Command VII Bomber Command VIII...
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18th Operations Group (redirect from 18th Fighter Group)
1940 VII Fighter Command, 23 January 1942 XIII Fighter Command, 14 April 1943 Attached to: 310th Bombardment Wing, 24 March-26 April 1945 85th Fighter Wing...
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506th Air Expeditionary Group (redirect from 506th Strategic Fighter Wing)
unit to VII Fighter Command 301st Fighter Wing. From Tinian the air echelon flew combat patrol missions under the control of Air Defense Command, Saipan...
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emergency landing airfields for XXIst Bomber Command as well as fighter airfields for VII Fighter Command. On 25 March the Battle of Iwo Jima was declared...
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413th Flight Test Group (redirect from 413th Fighter Group)
April–June 1945. The group was assigned to the Twentieth Air Force VII Fighter Command, 301st Fighter Wing. Was reassigned to the Seventh Air Force early in August...
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in the Pacific, the 414th Group was assigned to the 301st Fighter Wing of VII Fighter Command, part of Twentieth Air Force. The air echelon that was based...
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6th Weapons Squadron (redirect from 6th Fighter Squadron)
Group (later 18th Fighter Group), January 1927 15th Fighter Group, 16 March 1943 VII Fighter Command, 5 June 1944 (attached to 318th Fighter Group, 11 January-16...
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50th Fighter Group), 15 January 1941 (attached to 7th Interceptor Command (later VII Fighter Command, 10 February – 17 August 1942 15th Fighter Group...
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United States Strategic Air Forces in the Pacific (category United States Army Air Force Commands)
Guam and be commanded by General Carl Andrew "Tooey" Spaatz, and consisted of the combat commands (VII Fighter Command, XXI Bomber Command) of the Twentieth...
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1944 VII Fighter Command c. September 1944 Signal Aircraft Warning Service, VII Fighter Command, c. September 1944 – 29 July 1946 62nd Fighter Wing,...
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7th Air Division (redirect from 7th Fighter Wing (World War II))
As the 7th Fighter Wing, the division provided air defense of the Hawaiian Islands from 21 April 1944, assigned to VII Fighter Command, and then Army...
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508th Aerospace Sustainment Wing (redirect from 508th Fighter-Escort Wing)
508th Tactical Fighter Group as the 508th Tactical Fighter Group on 31 January 1984 72d Fighter Wing, 12 October 1944 VII Fighter Command, 6 January – 25...
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January 1944 (attached to VII Fighter Command 24 January 1944 VI Air Service Area Command (remained attached to VII Fighter Command, 12 December 1944 Seventh...
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