Riverside in Montgomery County, Ohio — The American Midwest (Great Lakes)
19th Fighter Squadron
Pearl Harbor Day 1941
until the war ended - 1945
Pearl Harbor, Saipan, Guam, Tinian,
Iwo Jima, I E Shima, Okinawa
The 19th flew and maintained
P40s, P47s, and P38s.
In aerial combat, the 19th never lost
a plane - while shooting down over
70 Japanese fighters and bombers!
Topics. This memorial is listed in these topic lists: Air & Space • Patriots & Patriotism • War, World II. A significant historical year for this entry is 1941.
Location. 39° 46.763′ N, 84° 6.751′ W. Memorial is in Riverside, Ohio, in Montgomery County. It can be reached from Spaatz Street. Marker (Memorial Wall #1, 049) is in the Memorial Park of the National Museum of the United States Air Force, with museum access off Springfield Street. Touch for map. Memorial is at or near this postal address: 1100 Spaatz Street, Dayton OH 45431, United States of America. Touch for directions.
Regionally, this memorial is in the Dayton Metro and in the Miami Valley. It is also in the American Midwest and in the Corn Belt. Globally, it is in North America, the Western Hemisphere, the Western World, and the Anglosphere. Historically, it finds itself in what was once the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy, the territory of the Mississippian Culture, and the Northwest Territory.
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker: 47th Fighter Squadron (here, next to this marker); AC-130A Spectre Gunship II (here, next to this marker); SSgt Forrest Ray Cope (here, next to this marker); 504th Bomb Group (VH) (here, next to this marker); Frederick W. Kaufmann, Colonel, USAF (here, next to this marker); USAF Pilot Class 1954E (here, next to this marker); Michael Slepecky, Jr. (here, next to this marker); Army Air Corps Flying Cadet Class 41-B (here, next to this marker). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Riverside.
Also see . . . 19th Fighter Squadron. Wikipedia entry (Submitted on July 29, 2022, by Larry Gertner of New York, New York.)

Photographed by William Fischer, Jr.
4. NMUSAF Memorial Park Sign
Memorial Park map and marker locations
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Credits. This page was last revised on August 26, 2022. It was originally submitted on March 12, 2016, by William Fischer, Jr. of Reynoldsburg, Ohio. This page has been viewed 868 times since then and 44 times this year. Photos: 1. submitted on March 12, 2016, by William Fischer, Jr. of Reynoldsburg, Ohio. 2. submitted on March 8, 2016, by William Fischer, Jr. of Reynoldsburg, Ohio. 3. submitted on July 2, 2015, by William Fischer, Jr. of Reynoldsburg, Ohio. 4. submitted on December 28, 2009, by William Fischer, Jr. of Reynoldsburg, Ohio. 5. submitted on July 29, 2022, by Larry Gertner of New York, New York.



