United States Marine Corps 1st Marine Aircraft Wing
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HISTORICAL NOTE
The 1st Marine Aircraft Wing (MAW) was activated at MCB Quantico, VA, on 7 July 1941. The wing transferred to NAS San Diego, CA, on 10 December 1941, and then to Camp Kearny on 31 December 1941. The first deployment for 1st MAW came in August 1942 when forward elements of the Wing arrived on Guadalcanal and made up the Cactus Air Force supporting the 1st Marine Division during the Battle of Guadalcanal. At the beginning of the Korean War, the initial deployment of Marines was a provisional brigade activated on 7 July 1950 — the 1st Provisional Marine Brigade — formed from the 1st Marine Division and the 1st Marine Aircraft Wing. Its core consisted of two units — a regimental combat team from the 5th Marine Regiment and Marine Aircraft Group 33 (MAG-33). In late-June 1952, 75 aircraft from 1st MAW participated in the attack on the Sui-ho Dam in North Korea. For the Vietnam War, April 1962, when HMM-362 flew into the Mekong Delta to set up operations at the Sóc Trăng Airfield, through April 1975, when helicopters of HMM-164 evacuated the last Americans from the US Embassy, Saigon, the 1st MAW was in country. The wing is headquartered at Camp Foster on the island of Okinawa, Japan.
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1971-08-27 |
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1st MAW Subordinate Unit. Cachet by Martin W. Longseth. From the Greg Ciesielski collection.
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