Mexican
Expeditionary Air Force
201st Fighting
Squadron in the Philippines
Liberation
Period
| The Mexican
Expeditionary Air Force (MEAF) departed San Francisco on March 27, 1945
aboard the U.S.S. Fairisle and arrived in the Philippines on April 30,
and debarked May 1st to Clark Field. At the beginning of June they began
flying air cover for ground troops. The MEAF was comprised of 285 Mexican
Nationals serving under the Mexican flag and 11 Americans as liaison officers. |
Cover posted
at Cost Rica on April 16, 1945 to: 2nd. Lieutenant Howard B. Riggs,
U.S. Liaison
Officer, Mex. Exped. Air Force APO 18,888 (transit APO) P.O.
re-directed
to APO 710.
 |
Cover posted
from Mexico City
on June 11,
1945 to:
Sergeant 2nd
class, Ruben Ledesma, APO 74.
This is the
first and only time that the Mexican military has served outside of Mexico. |
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