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Old 31st May 2018, 12:46
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Re: Seeking Odds and Ends, Second VF-18

When Air Group 18 entered combat aboard Intrepid in September 1944 it included a detachment of 4 F6F(N) from VF(N)78. However, later that month the Navy changed its policy regarding night fighters and so the pilots from the detachment were transferred to VF18. Other detachments from VF(N)78 were aboard Hornet, Lexington and Hancock, and they too were merged with their respective air group fighter squadrons. VF(N)78 was decommissioned on 2 October 1944. Two other squadrons that had supplied night fighter detachments, VF(N)77 and 79, were also decommissioned around that time.

From then on, 4-aircraft night fighting teams were trained at NAS Barber's Point and assigned to the fighter squadrons of air groups passing through Hawaii on their way to combat.
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