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1954 - Marine Corps Air Station Miami at what is now Opa-locka Executive Airport and viewed from over the Cloverleaf

Northwest Dade County, Florida


Temporary research regarding NAS/MCAS Miami:

Wikipedia: MAG-31 was reactivated 17 March 1952, at MCAS Cherry Point, North Carolina, and transferred to Marine Corps Air Station Miami, Florida, operating as a part of the 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing until it was again decommissioned in 1958.

Marine Fighter Attack Squadron-142 [VMFA-142]
The squadron was deactivated 21 September 1945 and reactivated 1 July 1946 at Miami, Florida, as Marine Fighting Squadron 142 and assigned to Marine Air Detachment, Naval Air Reserve Training Unit, Naval Air Station, Miami, Florida. The "Flying Gators" were reassigned in December 1946 to Marine Air Reserve Training Command, Naval Air Reserve Training Unit, Naval Air Station, Miami, Florida.

The squadron was redesignated 1 April 1949 as Marine Fighter Squadron 142, Marine Air Reserve Training Command, Naval Air Station, Miami, Florida, later itself redesignated in February 1952 as Marine Corps Air Station, Miami, Florida.

The squadron was redesignated in September 1953 as Marine Fighter Squadron 142, Marine Air Reserve Training Detachment, Marine Air Reserve Training Command, Marine Corps Air Station, Miami, Florida. The squadron was yet again redesignated on 15 May 1958 as Marine Attack Squadron 142 and relocated during March 1959 to Naval Air Station, Jacksonville, Florida.


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