421st NIGHT FIGHTER SQUADRON IN WORLD WAR II

As one of the seventeen night fighter squadrons established during the course of World War II, the 421st Night Fighter Squadron carried the war into the night skies over the battlefields of the South-west Pacific when most other fighter squadrons remained on the ground. In the squadron's years of service they would be based in a number of places ranging from New Guinea, Leyte and was credited with thirteen "kills". The unit finally ended up as an "Occupational" squadron in Japan after the war. The detailed operational history includes many personal accounts.