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	Night Fighter Training
		All of the Finnish students had received instrument training, and training in flying at night and in clouds, which had been conducted at home, but especially the younger pilots in the fighter squadrons had not flown many instrument sorties after their basic and advanced flying courses, so this type of training was quite welcome.
		The instructors stated that the night fighter pilot had to learn instrument flying so well, that he was able to “fly by instruments without instruments” and concentrate all of his attention on the search for the enemy.
		The, obviously very professional, British night fighter pilot saw them, and shot both down; one started to burn and crashed in a forested area, while the wounded pilot of the other aircraft was able to make an emergency landing at the airbase.
	www.saunalahti.fi /~fta/nightftr.htm (6022 words)

	Skylighters, The Web Site of the 225th AAA Searchlight Battalion: The Skylighters and the Night Fighters -- The P-61 ...
		It made its operational debut in the South Pacific in the summer of 1944 and was the standard USAAF night fighter at the end of the war.
		At this time, no other company was known to be working on night fighters, although at about this time Douglas was starting work on their XA-26A night fighter and the AAC were considering the A-20B as an interim night fighter.
		It seems that the 427th Night Fighter Squadron based in China during the war was in preparation for the return home after the end of hostilities.
	www.skylighters.org /night_fighters/p61info.html (7866 words)

	Night Fighter Training
		All of the Finnish students had received instrument training, and training in flying at night and in clouds, which had been conducted at home, but especially the younger pilots in the fighter squadrons had not flown many instrument sorties after their basic and advanced flying courses, so this type of training was quite welcome.
		The instructors stated that the night fighter pilot had to learn instrument flying so well, that he was able to “fly by instruments without instruments” and concentrate all of his attention on the search for the enemy.
		The, obviously very professional, British night fighter pilot saw them, and shot both down; one started to burn and crashed in a forested area, while the wounded pilot of the other aircraft was able to make an emergency landing at the airbase.
	www.sci.fi /~fta/nightftr.htm (6022 words)

	Night fighter
		A night fighter is a fighter aircraft adapted for use at night, or in other times of bad visibility.
		Night fighters existed as a separate class into the 1960s.
		As the aircraft grew in capability, the role interceptor was often one and the same as night fighter, due to the same plane having both the speed and radar needed to fill both roles.
	www.teachersparadise.com /ency/en/wikipedia/n/ni/night_fighter.html (367 words)

	UFO Area The Foo Fighter Mystery (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In some respects, a night fighter plane operates like a champion boxer whose eyesight isn't very good; he must rely on other senses to guide him to his opponent.
		The night fighter flies there, closes in by means of his own radar until usually he can see the enemy, and if the plane doesn't identify itself as friendly, he shoots it down.
		On December 22-23, 1944, another 415th night fighter squadron pilot and radar-observer were flying at 10,000 feet altitude near Hagenau.
	www.ufoarea.com /events_foofighters_mystery.html (2341 words)

	Night Birds of the Big E
		Night flying from carriers is NOT new, but there has never been anything like Admiral Gardner's new night carrier group devoted exclusively to after-dark operations.
		Admiral Gardner said that the night fighters were prepared to do all of the operations entirely by instruments in pitch flness, taking off from the carriers, navigating, finding and hitting the target, and then returning and landing.
		It was disclosed that night Hellcat pilots who operate the planes as fighter and bomber have been training seven months for this special job and that the torpedo pilots have been training since mid-September.
	www.cv6.org /1945/nightops/nightbirds.htm (1746 words)

	F4U2 History
		The XF4U2 differed from the standard day fighter by the inclusion of a microwave-pulse based, airborne interception XAIA radar unit mounted in a bulbous fairing on the front edge of the starboard wing, and the deletion of the outboard.50 cal. machine gun.
		However, the first night fighter squadron was not deployed in the Pacific until October, 1943.
		The night fighter versions of both the Wildcat and Tigercat owed their existence to the pioneering of the F4U2.
	www.clubhyper.com /reference/f4u2res1.htm (661 words)

	Chapter09
		Coleman bluntly told us that he had heard unsatisfactory reports about night fighter operations, and he would like to see us refueled and out of Hsian as soon as this could be done.
		One night fighter crew reported firing on an enemy truck convoy when the flight had been plotted by fighter control all the time, and had never left friendly territory.
		The colonel and the 14th Air Force were down on night fighters.
	www.nightfighter.info /Chapter09.html (1026 words)

	Night Fighter
		Smith and pilot Carl J. Absmeier were responsible for two air-to-air kills and a number of valuable intruder missions during the waning days of World War II, flying a craft named Jing-Bow Joy-Ride.
		In his later years Smith wrote a fascinating account of their exploits, richly detailed and full of facts and observations.
		Smith and Absmeier, attached to the 426th Night Fighter Squadron, were recipients of a number of awards and medals, and the most successful team in their unit.
	www.nightfighter.info (279 words)

	Camouflage & Markings: Night-fighting Spitfires
		One of the lesser known episodes in the operational history of the Spitfire is its use as a night fighter.
		The aircraft were repainted in night camouflage and the units commenced training in night flying and interception during winter 1941/1942.
		The night camouflage was applied on top of the aircrafts' former day fighter scheme, which also resulted in a variety of roundel sizes and markings.
	ipmsstockholm.org /magazine/2006/06/stuff_eng_profile_night_spitfires.htm (763 words)

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		With data from early RAF night fighter operations, the heavily-armed Black Widow was this country's first aircraft specifically designed as a night-fighter.
		Other night fighters, including the P-70 derivative of the A-20, the P-38M and the BF110 were modified versions ofexisting aircraft.
		It is painted and marked as a P-61B assigned to the 550th Night Fighter Squadron serving in the Pacific in 1945.
	usfighter.tripod.com /p61.htm (451 words)

	FMP - Finnish Night-fighters 1943 - 1944
		Fighter Squadron 30 was one of the suspended units.
		MTs were flown to Vesivehmaa airbase and Fighter Squadron 30 was suspended on 27.11.1944.
		All fighters of former HLe.Lv.30 were given to Fighter Squadron 31 and 33 (HLe.Lv.31 and 33) on 4.12.
	www.geocities.com /finnmilpge/fmp_faf_nightfighters.html (1757 words)

	Army Air Forces in World War II
		Night training began in July 1942 at the Fighter Command School, Night Fighter Division, AAF School of Applied Tactics in Orlando.
		Night fighter pilots must be picked for their ability to operate at night and that means able to use a lot of instruments, and of course they must be fed and prepared physically to have good eyesight at night.
		Having established four training squadrons and activated ten night fighter squadrons in Florida, the AAF ordered the entire night fighter training program to California in January 1944, to be headquartered at Hammer Field near Fresno.
	permanent.access.gpo.gov /lps51153/airforcehistory/usaaf/ww2/night/nightpg6.htm (1270 words)

	Museum Adds British Bristol Beaufighter
		When the USAAF formed its first radar-equipped night fighter squadron in January 1943, the only American night fighter available was the makeshift Douglas P-70, a modified A-20 bomber using the U.S. version of the Mk IV radar.
		In the summer of 1943, the 414th, 415th, 416th, and 417th Night Fighter Squadrons of the Mediterranean-based 12th Air Force received more than 100 "reverse Lend-Lease" Beaufighters, achieving their first night victory in January 1944.
		Although purpose-built American P-61 Black Widow night fighters began to replace them in December 1944, USAAF Beaufighters continued to fly night cover for Allied forces in Italy and France until the closing days of the war.
	www.military.com /features/0,15240,117363,00.html (391 words)

	Messerschmitt Bf 110 - Germany
		As a long-range escort, fighter the Bf 110C received a disastrous mauling at the hands of the RAF during the "Battle of Britain." Rather than protecting the bombers under escort, the Bf 110C formations usually found that they were hard pressed to defend themselves.
		However, the Daimler-Benz Aktiengesellschaft was actively engaged in developing a new twelve-cylinder liquid-cooled inverted-vee engine, the DB 600, which held promise of 1,000 hp; and on the premise that such engines would be available for his prototypes, Messerschmitt began the design of the Bf 110.
		Against Polish PZL fighters and other European countries the aircraft fared well, but when used during the Battle of Britain to escort German bombers, Royal Air Force fighters dealt heavily with the aircraft, forcing the Luftwaffe to switch to short-range Bf 109s for escort duties.
	www.aviation-history.com /messerschmitt/bf110.html (1391 words)

	P-61 Black Widow
		Intended from the very beginning as a night fighter, perhaps no other fighter in history was as effective in this role as the Northrop P-61.
		The German radar sets in their night fighters were large, required lots of anntenae, and not near as efficient.
		The P-61 flew its first operational intercept mission as a night fighter in Europe on July 3, 1944, and later was also used as a night intruder over enemy territory.
	members.tripod.com /Air_Museum_ww2/id24.htm (361 words)

	Bristol Beaufighter (D Llewellyn James)
		Soon after it was given the name 'Beaufighter' (from 'Beaufort, fighter) and it went on to equip no fewer than 52 operational squadrons of the RAF, and was to give outstanding service, primarily as a night fighter and maritime strike aircraft.
		However, as night bombing raids on Britain began to increase it was soon modified as a night-fighter carrying AI Mk IV radar and went into service with RAF Fighter Command as a replacement for the original radar-carrying fighter, the makeshift Blenheim Mk IF.
		These night interdiction operations were very effective, but losses were high, largely because of the poor ground facilities in the area and the difficult weather conditions.
	www.compass.dircon.co.uk /Beaufighter.htm (1720 words)

	De Havilland Mosquito - Great Britain
		The contract was therefore changed to twenty bombers and thirty fighters, necessitating the modification of a number of parts already manufactured.
		The basic fighter Mosquito introduced into squadron service in 1942 was the N.F.Mk.II, equipped primarily as a night-fighter and used for home defense alongside the Bristol Beaufighter.
		An entirely separate line of development from the Mosquito Night Fighter (NF) II produced a series of night-fighting variants which were primarily used for home-defense purposes.
	www.aviation-history.com /dehavilland/mosquito.html (1566 words)

	Night Vision article. TTPs for night operations
		Night Warrior Handbook is a training guide designed to help train an infantry company in the individual skills needed to conduct a night attack.
		Night Combat for Infantry Companies is a training guide designed to help train an infantry company in the collective skills needed to conduct a night attack.
		The result is a modified mission training plan for squad and platoon battle drills that enhance the unit's ability to fight at night as well as deny the enemy his night capabilities or advantages.
	nightoperations.com /Night_TTPs.htm (1081 words)

	ZenithPress.com - Beaufighters in the Night: 417 Night Fighter Squadron USAAF - by Brick Eisel
		The 417th Night Fighter Squadron USAAF was only the fourth such unit to be formed.
		The 417th Night Fighter Squadron USAAF was only the forth such unit to be formed.
		Beaufighters in the Night: 417 Night Fighter Squadron USAAF
	www.zenithpress.com /Store/ProductDetails_38411.ncm (657 words)

	Night Fighters of World War II Historical Collection at WSU Special Collections & Archives
		The Night Fighter Collection was compiled and collected by various members of Night Fighters' Squadrons after a reunion was held in Dayton, Ohio, in 1978.
		Night fighter squadrons served in the Pacific and in Europe.
		The collection also includes cassettes and a reel-to-reel tape of the 1978 Night Fighters Reunion held in Dayton, Ohio, and a taped interview with Gordon T. Timmons, who was at one time, commander of the 415th Night Fighter Squadron.
	www.libraries.wright.edu /special/manuscripts/ms120.html (1183 words)

	ProModeler 1/48 Bf-110G-4 Night Fighter
		With the launch of the British night offensive the German night fighter force was found wanting.
		There were no dedicated night fighters and no plan to deal with the incursions.
		The lack of maneuverability was not an issue early on as there were only limited British night fighters to contend with.
	www.ipmsusa.org /Reviews/Archive/Kits/Aircraft/Promodeler_48_bf-110g-4/Promodeler_48_bf-110g-4.htm (1822 words)

	The Jungle Air Force - History Page 11 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The 419th Night Fighter Squadron (NFS) is assigned to the XIII Fighter Command and moves
		The 550th Night Fighter Squadron (NFS) is assigned to the 13th AAF.
		The 550th NFS is assigned to the XIII Fighter Command.
	www.enter.net /~rocketeer/13thhist11.html (528 words)

	Heinkel He219A Uhu
		By late 1941, night bombing by the British Royal Air Force (RAF) had reached such serious proportions that the existing Junkers Ju-88 and Messerschmitt Bf-110 night fighters were unable to counter it.
		On the night of March 30, 1944, for example, German night fighters brought down 94 British bombers involved in a raid on Nurnberg.
		Because of the Luftwaffe's desperate need for the night fighters, and because the He-219 was easy to assemble, six additional aircraft were actually built in the field from spare parts and used operationally without being officially registered.
	www.nasm.si.edu /research/aero/aircraft/heinkel_219.htm (1335 words)

	Night Fighter - by CF RAWNSLEY
		Once the day fighters had saved Britain from invasion, it fell to the night fighters to save her cities from destruction.
		At the beginning, interception by night proved virtually impossible, particularly, as the German bombers carried out their raids in cloudy weather.
		Jimmy Rawnsley, crewed with gunner Cats-eyes Cunningham were among the first to use this new technology when it was introduced to the Blenheim they were flying and went on to become one of the RAFs leading night fighter crews, destroying over 20 enemy aircraft.
	www.motorbooks.com /ProductDetails_17939.ncm (298 words)

	388th Fighter Wing - Fact Sheets
		The history of the 388h Fighter Wing traces itself back to World War II and authorization of the 388th Bombardment Group (Heavy), (BG) (H).
		The 4th Fighter Squadron was activated at Selfridge Field, Mich., Jan. 15, 1941. In December 1975, the 4th TFS formed the initial cadre of the relocation of the 388th TFW, Hill Air Force Base, Utah.
		The F-16CG is a single-seat, multi-mission fighter with the ability to switch from an air-to-ground to air-to-air role at the touch of a button.
	www.388fw.acc.af.mil /library/factsheets/index.asp (370 words)

	Home
		When the fighter was in an appropriate position, the 3 searchlights would be switched on in order to illuminate the bomber.
		The Auswerte Tisch was thus replaced with the Seeburg-Tisch, where the position of the fighter and the bomber was projected from underneath by a light mounted in a turntable.
		It was now possible to track 2 night fighters with the Heinrich/Hans combination and use the 2 Würzburg Riese for tracking of 2 bombers.
	www.gyges.dk /Himmelbett.htm (1204 words)

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