501st Joint Fighter Wing

501st Joint Fighter Wing
501st JFW Insignia
Kanji Name	連合軍第501統合戦闘航空団
Romaji name	Rengō-gun dai 501 Tōgō Sentō Kōkū-dan
Nickname(s)	Strike Witches
Affiliation(s)	Karlsland Fuso Liberion Gallia Orussia Suomus Britannia Romagna
Branch	Multi-service
Headquarters	Western General Headquarters (1944) Central Command (1945)
Commanding Officer	Wing Commander Minna-Dietlinde Wilcke
Area of Operations	Britannia and Gallia (1944) Romagna and Venezia (early 1945) Karlsland (1945)
Base	Folkestone, Britannia (1944) Pescara, Romagna (1945), Sint-Truiden (St. Trond), Belgica (1945)

The 501^st Joint Fighter Wing "Strike Witches" is a specialist unit comprised of several of the greatest aces of the time as the first established Joint Fighter Wing.

The unit was first stationed in Britannia under the jurisdiction of the Western World Headquarters (under the command of Air Marshal Trevor Maloney) until the Liberation of Gallia after which it was disbanded.

The unit was reformed at the order of Air Marshal Adolfine Galland and based in Romagna, on an island in the Adriatic Sea.

Service History

In 1944 this Joint Fighter Wing was focused on the defense of Britannia and the recovery of Gallia, where their HQ was located on a strategic island in the Adriatic Sea.

Around October 1944, the unit was disbanded.

Six months later, around the spring of 1945, the unit was reactivated and relocated to the defence of Romagna, being again deactivated after the liberation of Venezia.

Some months later, the 501^st JFW was again reactivated after destroying a huge Neuroi that had attacked Karlsland.

They have shot down a large number of Neuroi.

Members

Commanding Officer                          

• Wing Commander Minna-Dietlinde Wilcke

Commanding Officer in battle

• Squadron Leader Sakamoto Mio

Members

• Flight Lieutenant Charlotte E. Yeager
• Flight Lieutenant Gertrud Barkhorn
• Flying Officer Eila Ilmatar Juutilainen
• Flying Officer Erica Hartmann
• Flying Officer Perrine H. Clostermann
• Flying Officer Sanya V. Litvyak
• Pilot Officer Francesca Lucchini
• Pilot Officer Miyafuji Yoshika
• Flight Sergeant Lynette Bishop

Temporary members

• Squadron Leader Heidemarie W. Schnaufer
• Sergeant Hattori Shizuka

Former members

• Pilot Officer Laura Tóth

Gallery

501^st Joint Fighter Wing

Artworks of Strike Witches

Strike Witches Movie flyer