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    Carrier Air Wing Six (CVW-6) was a United States Navy aircraft carrier air wing whose operational history spans from the middle of World War II to the...
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    Carrier Air Wing Seventeen (CVW-17), is a United States Navy aircraft carrier air wing based at Naval Air Station Lemoore, California. The air wing is...
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    Carrier Air Wing Eight (CVW-8), is a United States Navy aircraft carrier air wing based at Naval Air Station Oceana, Virginia. The air wing is attached...
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  • The first Carrier Air Group to use the designation Carrier Air Group Six was established on 15 March 1943. It was constituted from the squadrons of the...
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    aircraft carrier, at least one cruiser, a destroyer squadron of at least two destroyers or frigates, and a carrier air wing of 65 to 70 aircraft. A carrier strike...
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  • the commander of a Training Air Wing or a Naval Test Wing could be a Marine Colonel. On 1 July 1938 the first Carrier Air Groups were established. On 20...
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    Admiral Bernard M. Strean (Commander Carrier Division 2) USSĀ Enterprise: Captain Frederick H. Michaelis Carrier Air Wing Six: Commander T.L. Nielsen USSĀ Long...
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  • as Carrier Air Group Seventeen and disestablished on 1 April 1992 as Carrier Air Wing Six; and the second of which was established as Carrier Air Group...
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    States Navy aircraft carrier air operations include the operation of fixed-wing and rotary aircraft on and around an aircraft carrier for performance of...
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  • assigned to each Fleet Naval Air Force control the wing's type squadrons. A carrier air wing (CVW, formerly known as a carrier air group) consists of several...
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