Air Group

Definition: Air Group

Air Group

Noun

1. A unit of the United States air force larger than a squadron and smaller than a wing.

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Crosswords: Air Group

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Underway at sea during the Okinawa Campaign, 20 May 1945. Note that her air group contains both F4U and F6F fighters.Credit: NAVY.

Awaiting her turn to refuel, while operating in the Mediterranean Sea during the Jordanian crisis, 29 April 1957. USS Caloosahatchee (AO-98) is ahead, with USS Lake Champlain (CVA-39) and USS Salem (CA-139) alongside. Note Forrestal's eclectic air group, with F3H-2N, FJ-3M, F9F-8B, F2H-2P, A3D-1, AD-6, and S2F aircraft visible on her flight deck.Credit: NAVY.

Men of the Sixth Marines ride up on the carrier's deck-edge elevator prior to boarding helicopters of Marine Air Group 26 to take part in a practice landing as part of the 1958 Atlantic Fleet Amphibious Exercises. Photo bears the rubber-stamped date 24 March 1958. See Photo # NH 97602 (extended caption) for the text of the original caption for this photograph.Credit: NAVY.

Formation portrait of the Atlantic Fleet anti-submarine group's ships and aircraft, taken during exercises in 1959 with Secretary of the Navy William B. Franke embarked. Ships include the group flagship, USS Valley Forge (CVS-45) in center, two submarines, and seven destroyers. Identifiable among the latter are USS Eaton (DDE-510) at left front, USS Beale (DDE-471) following Eaton, USS Waller (DDE-466) in the center foreground, and USS Conway (DDE-507) at right front. Aircraft overhead include two four-plane formations of S2F "Trackers" and three HSS-1 "Seabat" helicopters from the Valley Forge air group, plus one shore-based P2V "Neptune".Credit: NAVY.

Passes under the Oakland Bay Bridge as she arrives at San Francisco, California, upon her return from the Korean War zone, circa 9 June 1951. Crewmen on the flight deck are spelling out "CVG 2" in honor of her air group.Credit: NAVY.

Scene on the carrier's port bridge wing, during operations off Guadalcanal on 7 August 1942. Among those present are (from left to right, in the right center) Commander D.F. Smith (hatless); Captain Forrest P. Sherman, Commanding Officer (wearing helmet); Rear Admiral Leigh Noyes, Commander Task Group 61.1 (facing camera); and Lieutenant Commander Wallace M. Beakley, Commander Wasp Air Group, who is making his report to RAdm. Noyes. Note SBD-3 scout bombers (one with a rather small National star painted on its fuselage) on the flight deck and .30 caliber machine gun mounted on the bridge bulwark.Credit: NAVY.

Loading Marine Corps F4U-4B "Corsair" fighters at Naval Air Station North Island, San Diego, California, for transportation to Korea, July 1950. Badoeng Strait carried planes and aircrew of Marine Air Group 33 as part of the trans-Pacific movement of the First Provisional Marine Brigade, the initial Marine Corps deployment of the Korean War. She left San Diego in mid-July and arrived at Kobe, Japan on 31 July, flying her planes off the following day.Credit: NAVY.

Lieutenant Commander Edward C. Outlaw, Commander Fighting Squadron 32 and Air Group 32, with other VF-32 pilots in flight quarters after a sweep over Truk, 29 April 1944. Note steward serving drinks, status boards on the bulkhead and ventilator on the overhead.Credit: NAVY.

Insignia of the carrier's air group, circa the late 1930s.Credit: NAVY.

Portrait photograph, taken circa the early 1940s. Lt. Tomonaga was Hiryu Air Group Commander during the Battle of Midway and was killed in action leading the torpedo attack on USS Yorktown (CV-5) on 4 June 1942.Credit: NAVY.

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Economic History

South Africa

Its total assets were valued at R50 billion in 1999. The Swiss Air Group bought a 20 percent stake in Transnet's South African Airlines for R1.3 billion during in 1999. Telkom (the statutory telecommunications parastatal) enjoys a monopoly until May 2002 on certain international and fixed line telecommunications services. (references)

Human Rights

Peru

On September 27, 2000, the body of Juan Carlos Aliaga Mera, a noncommissioned air force officer, who was a crewmember in President Fujimori's presidential plane, was found in the Callao Air Group 8 Complex. (references)

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Expression using "air group": carrier air group. Additional references.

French

Groupe aérien européen (European Air Group), GAE (European Air Group). (various references)

German

European Air Group (European Air Group), EAG (European Air Group). (various references)

Hungarian

repülõgép-hordozó bázisú légi csoportosítás (carrier air group). (various references)

Pig Latin

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

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+3 letters: purgatorial, purgatories.

+4 letters: superorganic.

+5 letters: expurgatorial, fluorographic, prefiguration, superorganism, superregional, uranographies.

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