514th Fighter Squadron A-1H Skyraider Model, Vietnam, 1970, Mahogany Scale Model For Sale

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514th Fighter Squadron A-1H Skyraider Model, Vietnam, 1970, Mahogany Scale Model:
$359.00

514th Fighter Squadron A-1H Skyraider Model, Vietnam, 1970, Mahogany Scale Model514th Fighter Squadron A-1E Skyraider Model Fly with the 514th Fighter Squadron in this hand crafted A-1 Skyraider model. Each piece is carved from wood and hand painted to provide a piece you’ll love! Length – 14 inches The 514th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit. Its last assignment was with the 86th Air Division, based at Ramstein Air Base, Germany, where it was inactivated on 8 January 1961. The squadron was first activated as the 630th Bombardment Squadron in 1943. While retaining its mission as a ground attack unit, it became the 514th Fighter-Bomber Squadron a few months after activating. After training in the United States, it moved to the European Theater of Operations in the spring of 1944. It entered combat soon thereafter, and following D-Day, moved to the European continent, where it gave close air support to American ground forces advancing across Europe. It earned two Distinguished Unit Citations for its actions during the war. Following V-E Day, the squadron served in the Army of Occupation until 1946, when it was inactivated and its personnel and equipment transferred to another unit. The squadron was reactivated in 1952, when it replaced an Air National Guard unit that had been mobilized for the Korean War. The following year it assumed an air defense mission and continued with that mission until inactivated. 514th Fighter Squadron A-1H Skyraider Model, Vietnam, 1970, Mahogany Scale Model 514th Fighter Squadron A-1E Skyraider Model

Fly with the 514th Fighter Squadron in this hand crafted A-1 Skyraider model. Each piece is carved from wood and hand painted to provide a piece you’ll love!

Length – 14 inches

The 514th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit. Its last assignment was with the 86th Air Division, based at Ramstein Air Base, Germany, where it was inactivated on 8 January 1961.

The squadron was first activated as the 630th Bombardment Squadron in 1943. While retaining its mission as a ground attack unit, it became the 514th Fighter-Bomber Squadron a few months after activating. After training in the United States, it moved to the European Theater of Operations in the spring of 1944. It entered combat soon thereafter, and following D-Day, moved to the European continent, where it gave close air support to American ground forces advancing across Europe. It earned two Distinguished Unit Citations for its actions during the war. Following V-E Day, the squadron served in the Army of Occupation until 1946, when it was inactivated and its personnel and equipment transferred to another unit.

The squadron was reactivated in 1952, when it replaced an Air National Guard unit that had been mobilized for the Korean War. The following year it assumed an air defense mission and continued with that mission until inactivated.

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