By: Arabella-Cox - 18th July 2006 at 02:23
[QUOTE=’Gunny’ Perdue]Scooter-
The Navy and the USMC would disband a squadron after a combat tour… and often would reconstitute another one with all new personnel and a re-use the designation…. VMF-214 is a perfect example (3 times).
VF-17 was reconstituted 3 times as well.. but only twice saw combat tours.
Under Blackburn it first served on the Bunker Hill (was detached to Ondonga)and achieved 152 kills with F-4U’s
2nd tour with Beebe as CO on the Hornet… it was a plussed up squadron with F6F’s first with 36 planes, then 54 and finally 72. After six months or so it was cut in half and VBF-17 formed of the remainder.
-VF-17 161 kills
-VBF-17 125 kills
If you would like to concatenate the kill records, be my guest. But in my opinion it doesn’t really follow… non-continuous records are not added… even in the same war.[/QUOTE]
That maybe true yet with the turn over pilots what does it matter? A USAAC Squadron would more than likely have all new pilot within a years time…….. :rolleyes:
By: 'Gunny' Perdue - 17th July 2006 at 13:02
Didn’t VF-17 (Jolly Rogers) have over 300 kills by the close of WWII?
Scooter-
The Navy and the USMC would disband a squadron after a combat tour… and often would reconstitute another one with all new personnel and a re-use the designation…. VMF-214 is a perfect example (3 times).
VF-17 was reconstituted 3 times as well.. but only twice saw combat tours.
Under Blackburn it first served on the Bunker Hill (was detached to Ondonga)and achieved 152 kills with F-4U’s
2nd tour with Beebe as CO on the Hornet… it was a plussed up squadron with F6F’s first with 36 planes, then 54 and finally 72. After six months or so it was cut in half and VBF-17 formed of the remainder.
-VF-17 161 kills
-VBF-17 125 kills
If you would like to concatenate the kill records, be my guest. But in my opinion it doesn’t really follow… non-continuous records are not added… even in the same war.
By: XN923 - 16th July 2006 at 18:21
Claims or confirmed?
By: Arabella-Cox - 16th July 2006 at 04:50
[QUOTE=’Gunny’ Perdue]The 431st Fighter Squadron (P-38) scored 221 Kills in the PTO and
the 61st Fighter Squadron (P-47) scored 230 kills in the ETO.[/QUOTE]
Didn’t VF-17 (Jolly Rogers) have over 300 kills by the close of WWII?
By: 'Gunny' Perdue - 16th July 2006 at 03:46
What was the Highest Scoring American Fighter Squadron (i.e. not Group) of WWII? :rolleyes:
The 431st Fighter Squadron (P-38) scored 221 Kills in the PTO and
the 61st Fighter Squadron (P-47) scored 230 kills in the ETO.
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