Marine Fighting Squadron 222 (VMF-222) was a fighter squadron of the United States Marine Corps that was activated and fought during World War II. Known...

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...

of VMF-222 hit a lump in the runway, blew a tire and his Corsair careened wildly into his own squadron's revetment area, which was shared with VMF-212...

Ewa VMF-213, based at MCAS Ewa VMF-214, based at MCAS Ewa VMF-221, used in Battle of Midway VMF-222, based at MCAS Ewa VMF-224 VMO-251 United States Navy...

November 1946, U.S. Navy Letter ACL 156-46 Tail code changed to "PC" in 1957. VMF-222 7 November 1946, U.S. Navy Letter ACL 156-46 Disestablished in December...

December 1941, Wake Island fell on the following day. On 1 March 1942, VMF-221, VMF-222, VMSB-241, and their headquarters units formed Marine Aircraft Group...

rifleman. Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 112, was originally activated as VMF-112, at San Diego, California on 1 March 1942. Deploying shortly after to...

decommissioned 21 March 1992. A PV-1 of VMF(N)-531 in the Solomons, 1943 VMF(N)-531 F7F-3N in 1950 VMF(AW)-531 F3D-2 in 1957 VMF(AW)-531 F4D-1 in 1960 A VMFA-531...

14 (MAG-14) comprising VMF-212, VMF-222 and VMF-223 all operating F4Us were based at Awase from July until September 1945. VMF-312 operating F4Us was...

as Marine Aircraft Group 22, initially composed of VMF-221, VMF-222, VMSB-241, and VMSB-242 (VMF-222 and VMSB-242 would later be transferred off of the...

ISBN 1-55750-840-2. Wolf, William (1999). Death Rattlers: Marine Squadron VMF-323 Over Okinawa. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Military History. ISBN 0764309536...

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...

arriving there on 12 August; and landed the 31 officers and 238 men of VMF-222. She next proceeded to Rendova harbor, Rendova Island, and tended the planes...

area. He scored his last kill while serving as the Operations Officer of VMF-222 at Okinawa on 22 June 1945. He became the Assistant Operations Officer...

operating PBJs from July–August 1944 VMF-218 operating F4Us from April–November 1944 VMF-222 operating F4Us VMF-223 operating F4Us Royal New Zealand Air...

Naval Air Station Los Alamitos, California, as Marine Fighter Squadron 134 (VMF-134) in the Marine Air Reserve. Redesignated again on 1 July 1962, as Marine...

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...

military aviation had been divided between the army (VVS KA) and the navy (VVS VMF). The VVS KA had been split into four different organisations owing to faulty...

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...

joined VMF-218 (another Corsair squadron), which was based at Nanyuan Field near Beijing, in December 1946, and flew patrol missions until VMF-218 was...

radar-directed Brewster F2A Buffalo fighters of Marine Fighting Squadron 221 (VMF-221) and shot down. All aboard were killed, including Lt. Hashizume Hisao...

Pearl Harbor on 28 November 1941 to deliver Marine Fighter Squadron 211 (VMF-211) to Wake Island nearly 2,500 miles (4,000 km) due west. She was scheduled...

SSR 33rd Center for Combat Employment and Retraining of Personnel Aviation VMF – Kulbakino Air Base, Mykolaiv, Ukrainian SSR 540th Instructor-Research Maritime...

1945: 'August Storm'. Routledge, p. 222. ISBN 9781135774783 S.V. Patianin (2009). "Korabli Vtoroi mirovoi voiny. VMF SSSR 1941-1945 gg". Morskaya Kampaniya...

in 1938 and which was assigned to Marine Fighter Squadron Two (VMF-2, redesignated VMF-211 on 1 July 1941) at NAS San Diego, California. It was sent to...

Alfa-class liquid-metal cooled reactor failed; reactor compartment scrapped. K-222, 1980: the Papa-class submarine had a reactor accident during maintenance...

the first aircraft was delivered to a United States Marine Corps squadron, VMF-122. The Navy preferred the lighter F9F Cougar due to its superior slow-speed...

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...

Pacific. During the battle, MAG-24 consisted of ten squadrons: VMF-211, 212, 215, 218, 222, 223, VMSB-235, 244, and VMTB-134, and 232. The attacks on the...

union team. Gregory Boyington: AVG/US Marine Corps; later commanded USMC VMF-214, the "Black Sheep Squadron". Clive Caldwell: RAAF, highest-scoring P-40...