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T ESS than a month after the outbreak of hostilities be- ■ - tween the United States and the Empire of Japan, Marine Fighting Squadron 225 was set down on paper to begin its career of carrying the war to the enemy. It was originally commissioned on 1 January 1943 as a fighter squadron attached to Marine Air West Coast. The Squadron, ready for combat, shipped overseas to Espirito Santos i n October, 1943, stopping at Hawaii en route. Moving to the island of Guam, in the Mariannas, Two and a Quarter pilots and men gave their striking power in support of the capture of the Mariannas. In July, 1945, MarFightRon 225 was reorganized to perform the duties of a carrier squadron. In this status it has gained top recognition and has become a squadron well known in carrier circles. While operating off the U.S.S. SIBONEY (CVE-112) in 1947, the squadron set what it believes to be a record of operating intervals for CVE operations. The intervals were: thirteen (13) second fly- away, twenty-five (25) seconds catapult, and twenty-two (22) second landing interval. In July, 1948, under the command of Maj. C. M. Kunz, the squadron departed the United States for the Mediter- ranean Area which later proved to be the first of three cruises to run consecutively for the next nineteen months in that area covering 50,000 miles of ocean. The travelers of Two and a Quarter have made three crossings of the Atlantic aboard the U.S.S. SIBONEY, U.S.S. MIDWAY, and the U.S.S. LEYTE. This depicts the large and small of it amongst the carriers from the jeep, U.S.S. SIBONEY, and the battle carrier, U.S.S. MIDWAY. Mai. W. R. Bartosh became the commanding Officer in May, 1949. During the next three months, the squadron placed first in the competitive exercises of high-altitude gunnery, dive-bombing, and rockets with eleven other fighter squadrons of ComAirLant. The five-months cruise, which the squadron completed on 26 January 1950, was an appropriate anti-climax for a squadron which has performed aboard carriers in the pres- ence of high-ranking dignitaries abroad and in the United States.
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