72nd Fighter Squadron
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The 72nd Fighter Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit. Its last assignment was with the 56th Operations Group, based at MacDill Air Force Base, Florida. It was inactivated on 19 June 1
72nd TFTS F-16B Block 10B Fighting Falcon 80-0623
72nd TFS F-100D 55-3610 at Clark AB, 1958
72nd TFS F-100D 55-3640 at Chiayi AB, Taiwan, 1958
72nd Fighter Squadron P-51D Mustang, North Field, Iwo Jima, 1945.
South Field (Iwo Jima)
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South Field was a World War II airfield on Iwo Jima in the Volcano Islands, located in the Central Pacific. The Volcano Islands are part of Japan. The airfield was located on the southern corner of Iw
72nd Fighter Squadron
…December 1943 Haleiwa Fighter Strip, Hawaii Territory, 23 April 1944 Mokuleia Field, Hawaii Territory, 8 June 1944 Central Field, Iwo Jima, 26 March 1945 South Field, Iwo Jima, 15 July 1945 Isley Airfield, Saipan, 5 December 1945 Northwest Field, Guam, 17 April-10 October 1946 George AFB, California, 1 January 1953…
South Field, Iwo Jima, February 1945
4 March 1945: Dinah Might was the first B-29 to make an emergency landing on Iwo Jima. Greeted by a thousand Marines and Seebees, she was repaired, refueled and flown out of South Field while the fighting was still going on.
Marine at a Japanese antiaircraft gun overlooking Motoyama No 1 airfield
South and Central Fields Iwo Jima 1945