Seventh Fighter Command

The Seventh Fighter Command included Fighter Groups 15th, 18th, 21st, 318th, 414th and 506th, and Night Fighter Squadrons 6th, 548th and 549th. Its men served in the air war against the Japanese Empire from Hawaii on 7 December 1941 to Japan on 15 August 1945. The command fought in the Hawaiian Islands, Midway Island, the Gilbert and Marshall Islands, the Solomon Islands, the Marianas Islands, Iwo Jima, the Ryukyus Islands, and Japan. Seventh Fighter Command units are credited with the first and last aerial victories of World War II. Their combat aircraft included P-36, P-39, P-38, P-40, P-47, P-51, P-61, and P-70.

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