The 71st Fighter Squadron was activated at Selfridge Field on Jan. 1, 1941 and assigned to the 1st Pursuit Group. Late in the year, the Ironmen had their new symbol; a bleached skull was the center of the insignia. Three yellow bolts represented the three flights in the squadron.

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The War Department created a new 1st Pursuit Group between late April and mid-August 1919, when it dispatched two-man cadres of the 27th, 94th, 95th, and 147th Aero Squadrons to Selfridge Field, Michigan. New recruits and veterans from other flying units arrived to assume their places in the squadrons, and by late summer the process was complete.

1st Pursuit Group . The United States aggregated its fighter squadrons into Pursuit Groups of four squadrons - in theory totaling 72 aircraft and an equal number of pilots. The reality was that it was rare for the number of pilots to equal the number of aircraft or for the aircraft to be fully standardized across an entire group.

The 1st Operations Group is the oldest major air combat unit in the United States Air Force, being the successor organization of the 1st Pursuit Group. The 1st Pursuit Group was the first air combat group formed by the Air Service, American Expeditionary Force, on 5 May 1918.

The 95th Aero Squadron was an Air Service, United States Army unit that fought on the Western Front during World War I. It was the first American pursuit (fighter) squadron to fly in combat on the Western Front, beginning on 8 March 1918. [7]

'AVG 1st Pursuit Insignia'. A Squadron logo of the American Volunteer Group, WWII, CBI Theater. Decal number D1612. NOTE: 3, 4" versions may print with a white border. Larger versions will be contour cut without a white border. Designed and printed in the USA.

In 1943 the different squadrons began to apply specific colors to their tailbooms, wingtips and prop tips. The 27th FS Used red, (Squadron Codes beginning with HV), the 71st FS used White (Squadron Codes beginning with LM,) and the 94th FS …

Composite photograph featuring a roster of the American Volunteer Group's 1st Pursuit Squadron, circa 1941-1942. Individuals are identified by last name and first and middle initials. Squadron Leader Robert H. Neale is listed at the top.

2008年8月29日 · Photograph of an unidentified AVG (American Volunteer Group) serviceman posing with a sign painted with the 1st Pursuit Squadron emblem, likely in Burma or China, circa 1941-1942.