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Computer made/mounted on velcro 3.5 inch-90mm
MARINE AIRCRAFT GROUP 14 (MAG-14)
Marine Aircraft Group 14 was formed at Camp Kearny, CA on 1 Mar 1942. The nucleus for the new aircraft group came from Marine Aircraft Group 11 which had just arrived from MCAS Quantico, VA, following the 7 Dec 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor. They remained there training until they deployed for the Pacific Theater in Oct 1942. The Group soon arrived at Guadalcanal relieving Marine Aircraft Group 23 on 16 Oct 1942 to become part of the Cactus Air Force. The group would take part in the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands just 10 days later. In November 1942 they took part in the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal and continued to fight in the skies over the island until 4 Apr 1943 when they were sent to Auckland, New Zealand to rest and refit.
MAG-14 returned to the Solomon Islands in Aug 1943 and set up the Fighter Command at Munda. The next month part of the group was moved to Ondonga and later on more units were sent to Vella Lavella. From these locations they supported the Marines and American and Allied soldiers during the Battle of New Georgia and the Battle of Bougainville.
On 15 Feb 1944 New Zealand troops captured the Green Islands in Papua New Guinea. Less than two weeks later aircraft from MAG-14 were operating from the airstrip here known as Lagoon Field. From here, MAG-14 units would continue to keep pressure on the isolated Japanese garrisons of Rabaul and Kavieng.
By 24 Jan 1945, four fighter squadrons from MAG-14 were operating from Guiuan in the northern Philippines province of Eastern Samar. During fighting in the Philippines the Group was responsible for covering convoys and supporting Army and Filipino guerillas on the islands of Negros, Mindanao, Cebu and Leyte.
Following the war the Group returned to MCAAF Oak Grove, NC in Feb 1946 and was deactivated.
During Operation Desert Storm, MAG-14 flew night combat missions deep into Iraq and Kuwait and provided artillery destruction of the Iraqi Republican Guard. VMA-231 and VMA-542 provided more than 2,000 offensives in conjunction with delivering close to 4.5 million pounds of ordnance during January and Feb 1991.
In Nov 1999, Marine Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Squadron-2 (VMU-2), which operates the RQ-2A Pioneer Unmanned Aerial Vehicle was reassigned from MAG-14 to Marine Air Control Group 28 (MACG-28) at the decision of the USMC Force Structure Planning Group. On 13 May 2013 VMU-2 was officially reassigned from Marine Air Control Group 28 back to Marine Aircraft Group 14.
On 14 May 2012, MWSS-271 was transferred to MAG-14 after Marine Wing Support Group 27 (MWSG-27) was deactivated, but was transferred back on 22 May 2018, when MWSG-27 was reactivated at MCAS Cherry Point.