About: 171st Air Refueling Squadron   Sponge Permalink

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Established in early-1943 as a P-47 Thunderbolt fighter squadron, trained under I Fighter Command in the mid-Atlantic states. Also flew air-defense missions as part of the Philadelphia Fighter Wing. Deployed to the European Theater of Operations (ETO), being assigned to VIII Fighter Command in England, November 1943.

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  • 171st Air Refueling Squadron
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  • Established in early-1943 as a P-47 Thunderbolt fighter squadron, trained under I Fighter Command in the mid-Atlantic states. Also flew air-defense missions as part of the Philadelphia Fighter Wing. Deployed to the European Theater of Operations (ETO), being assigned to VIII Fighter Command in England, November 1943.
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Garrison
  • Selfridge Air National Guard Base, Detroit, Michigan
Branch
  • 25(xsd:integer)
command structure
Role
  • Air Refueling
identification symbol
  • 125(xsd:integer)
Nickname
  • "Michigan Six Pack"
Type
  • Squadron
identification symbol label
  • 171(xsd:integer)
Align
  • right
Caption
  • KC-135-BN Stratotanker 60-0346 171st Air Refueling Squadron
  • Emblem of the 171st Fighter-Interceptor Squadron
  • Emblem of the World War II 374th Fighter Squadron
Dates
  • --02-10
Width
  • 130(xsd:integer)
  • 150(xsd:integer)
Unit Name
  • 171(xsd:integer)
Image
  • 171(xsd:integer)
  • 374(xsd:integer)
equipment label
  • Tail Code
Equipment
  • Blue tail stripe "Michigan" in Yellow
abstract
  • Established in early-1943 as a P-47 Thunderbolt fighter squadron, trained under I Fighter Command in the mid-Atlantic states. Also flew air-defense missions as part of the Philadelphia Fighter Wing. Deployed to the European Theater of Operations (ETO), being assigned to VIII Fighter Command in England, November 1943. The unit served primarily as an escort organization, covering the penetration, attack, and withdrawal of B-17/B-24 bomber formations that the USAAF sent against targets on the Continent. The squadron also engaged in counter-air patrols, fighter sweeps, and strafing and dive-bombing missions. Attacked such targets as airdromes, marshalling yards, missile sites, industrial areas, ordnance depots, oil refineries, trains, and highways. During its operations, the unit participated in the assault against the Luftwaffe and aircraft industry during the Big Week, February 20–25, 1944, and the attack on transportation facilities prior to the Normandy invasion and support of the invasion forces thereafter, including the Saint-Lô breakthrough in July. The squadron supported the airborne attack on the Netherlands in September 1944 and deployed to Chievres Airdrome, (ALG A-84), Belgium between February and April 1945 flying tactical ground support missions during the airborne assault across the Rhine. The unit returned to Little Walden and flew its last combat mission on April 20, 1945. Demobilized during the summer of 1945 in England, inactivated in the United States as a paper unit in October.
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