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Kodiak Alaska Military History

Navy Flying Squadrons

Fleet Air Wing FOUR
VS-70 story by Thomas W. Moore, PHOTOS added 9/9/99
Nine Months with Captain Bob by Fred Tuxworth, VS-70
VS-49 history
VS-48 at Dutch Harbor
ROSTER plain text file, incomplete, CALENDAR of REUNIONS from 1999
From Roy Fletcher, all plain ASCII text files
- Pilot rotation letter June 14, 1943
- Pilots for duty Alaskan area, May 28, 1943
- Pilot status 1 June 1943
- Roy Fletcher duty log
- Personnel transfers 15 Dec 1942
- Request for flying time reports, 1 Jan 43
- Ferry trips January 11, 1943
- Advancement & pay Feb 19, 1943
- Pay memo March 3, 1943
- Officer assignments August 15, 1943
- Radiogram
- Fitness report R. W. Fletcher, Jr.

Kodiak Naval Station
photo courtesy of Jim Spencer
circa 1941

August 27, 1944
Fishing OS2U out of Womens Bay
Crewman, Allan - Pilot, Bailey
offical US Navy Photograph

October 5, 1944
OS2N-1 Landing gear damage from ground loop at NAS Kodiak, AK
offical US Navy Photograph

Links:

LT. William Thies - VP41 - Fleet Air Wing 4 - The Aleutians 1941 - 1942
VP-43 history
VP-61 history
CASCO (AVP-12)
CASCO (AVP-12)
FAW4 command moved from Seatle to Kodiak May 27 1942 then to Adak March 15 1943.
AVOCET (AVP-4) supported FAW4 after being at Pearl Harbor 12/7/41.

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