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During World War II, R.A.F. Debden Airfield in England was home to the 4th Fighter Group of the 8th Air Force from September 1942 to September 1945. Vanguard Yanks of the 71st, 121st, and 133rd R.A.F. Eagle Squadrons traded R.A.F. blues for U.S. Army olives to become the 4th Fighter Group. Flying Spitfires and Thunderbolts, and later long-ranging Mustangs, the group achieved the most victories over enemy aircraft in the entire U.S. Army Air Force, destroying 1016 enemy aircraft. The dead included 128 comrades who did not live to see the war's end.
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