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    VF-51, Fighter Squadron 51 was an aviation unit of the United States Navy known as the "Screaming Eagles". It was originally established as VF-1 on 1 February...
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    was redesignated VF-111 on 20 January 1959, the day after the original VF-111 was disestablished. The squadron was redesignated VF-26 on 1 September...
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    F-14s from VF-2, VF-31, VF-32, VF-154, and VF-213 would also participate in Operation Iraqi Freedom. The F-14Ds of VF-2, VF-31, and VF-213 obtained...
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  • consisted of F-14 squadrons VF-51 "Screaming Eagles" (which Mike "Viper" Metcalf mentions in the scene at his home) and VF-111 "Sundowners" (which was...
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    initially used in testing at NAS North Island, California. VF-5A, soon redesignated as VF-51, operated the type from Boxer in March 1948 and from USS Princeton...
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  • successful: USAF squadron was the 555th TFS with 36 kills US Navy squadron was VF-96 with 10 kills Aircraft was the F-4 Phantom with 147 kills Weapons were...
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    June 28, 1951, Essex had set sail for Korea, with VF-51 aboard to act as ground-attack aircraft. VF-51 flew ahead to Naval Air Station Barbers Point in...
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    included VF-21 and VF-33 in the Atlantic Fleet and VA-156 (redesignated VF-111 in January 1959), VF-24 (redesignated VF-211 in March 1959), VF-51, VF-121,...
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    enemy, and the first to include both jet squadrons VF-51 and VF-52 with F9F-2 Panther jets, VF-53 and VF-54 with F4U Corsairs and VA-55 with AD-1 Skyraiders...
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     United States United States Navy VFAW-3 VF-13 VF-21 VF-23 VF-51 VF-74 VF-101 VF-102 VF-141 VF-162 VF-213 VF-881 VF-882 United States Marine Corps VMF-113...
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