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This document provides a list of United States Navy aircraft squadrons and their locations in March 1942. It includes the squadron designations and numbers, types of aircraft, and home ports or duty stations for aircraft carriers, battleships, patrol wings, scouting forces, and training forces in the Pacific and Atlantic fleets. Over 100 individual squadrons are accounted for across the major naval aviation components in the Pacific and Atlantic at that time.

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9 W-91 B Y - 5 H: - Bqs SQ

This document provides a list of United States Navy aircraft squadrons and their locations in March 1942. It includes the squadron designations and numbers, types of aircraft, and home ports or duty stations for aircraft carriers, battleships, patrol wings, scouting forces, and training forces in the Pacific and Atlantic fleets. Over 100 individual squadrons are accounted for across the major naval aviation components in the Pacific and Atlantic at that time.

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