142d Fighter Wing
The 142d Fighter Wing (142 FW) is a unit of the Oregon Air National Guard, stationed at Portland Air National Guard Base, Oregon. If activated to federal service, the Wing is gained by the United States Air Force Air Combat Command.
The 123d Fighter Squadron assigned to the Wings 142d Operations Group, is a descendant organization of 123d Observation Squadron, formed on 30 July 1940. It is one of the 29 original National Guard Observation Squadrons of the United States Army National Guard formed before World War II.
Famous quotes containing the words fighter and/or wing:
“A pleasant smell of frying sausages
Attacks the sense, along with an old, mostly invisible
Photograph of what seems to be girls lounging around
An old fighter bomber, circa 1942 vintage.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)
“the embattled flaming multitude
Who rise, wing above wing, flame above flame,
And, like a storm, cry the Ineffable Name,
And with the clashing of their sword-blades make
A rapturous music, till the morning break....”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)