547th Night Fighter Squadron
- 547th Night Fighter Squadron
Infobox Military Unit
unit_name= 547th Night Fighter Squadron
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dates= 1944-1946
country= United States
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branch=United States Army Air Force
type= Night Fighter Operations
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* World War II: Asiatic-Pacific Campaign (1944-1945)
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battle_honours=The 547th Night Fighter Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit. Its last assignment was with Fifth Air Force, being inactivated on Ie Shima in the Ryukyu Islands on 20 Feb 1946
History
Lineage
* Established as 547th Night Fighter Squadron 1 Mar 1944: (Not manned after 7 Oct 1945): Inactivated 20 Feb 1946
Assignments
* Fifth Air Force
tations
* Oro Bay, New Guinea, 5 Sep - 6 Oct 1944
* Owl Island, Schouten Islands, 6 Oct - 31 Dec 1944: Detachment: Tacloban, Leyte, Phillipines, 9 Nov 1944 - 11 Jan 1945: Detachment: Mindoro, Phillipines, Dec 1944 - 16 Jan 1945
* Lingayen, Luzon, Phillipines, 18 Jan - 13 Aug 1945
* Ie Shima, Ryukyu Islands, 13 Aug - 7 Oct 1945
Operations History
ee also
* P-61 Black Widow
References
* Northrop P-61 Black Widow--The Complete History and Combat Record, Garry R. Pape, John M. Campbell and Donna Campbell, Motorbooks International, 1991.
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