481st Night Fighter Operational Training Group information
481st Night Fighter Operational Training Group
420th Night Fighter Squadron P-61 42-39728 in its "stealth" camouflaged shiny black paint, out of place in the daylight skies over California
Active
1943–1944
Country
United States
Branch
United States Army Air Forces
Type
Operational Training/Replacement Unit
Role
Night Fighter Training
Garrison/HQ
Orlando Army Air Base, Florida Hammer Field, California
Engagements
World War II American Campaign
Military unit
The 481st Night Fighter Operational Training Group (481 NFOTG) was a unit of the United States Army Air Forces. It was inactivated on 31 March 1944 at Hammer Field, California.
The group was the primary night fighter Operational Training Unit (OTU)/Replacement Training Unit (RTU) of the Army Air Forces during World War II. Its mission was to train either new graduates of Training Command advanced flying schools or transition experienced pilots into the P-61 Black Widow night fighter. It trained them in the flight characteristics of the aircraft and also night fighter interceptor techniques prior to the operational squadrons or replacement pilots being deployed to one of the overseas combat theaters.
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