제501통합전투항공단

제501통합전투항공단 501^st Joint Fighter Wing

한자		連合軍第501統合戦闘航空団
로마자		Rengō-gun dai 501 Tōgō Sentō Kōkū-dan
별명		스트라이크 위치스 Strike Witches
소속		후소 황립해군 유럽 파견함대 제24항공전대 288비행대
구성		카를스란트 후소 리베리온 갈리아 오라샤 수오무스 브리타니아 로마냐
사령부		중앙사령부(1945)
지휘관		미나-디트린데 뷜케
작전지역		로마냐 및 베네치아(1945년 초) 카를스란트(1945)
기지		로마냐 페스카라(1945년 초) 네덜란드 덴 헬더르(1945)

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

Following a large-scale assault by the Neuroi on the Rhine, the unit has been reformed once again to push towards Berlin.

Service History

In 1944, the 501^st was focused on the defense of Britannia and the recovery of Gallia.

Around October 1944, the unit was disbanded with the liberation of Gallia.

Six months later, around the spring of 1945, the unit was reactivated and relocated to the defence of Romagna, with its HQ located on a strategic island in the Adriatic Sea. The unit was again deactivated after the liberation of Venezia.

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

The 501^st has shot down a large number of Neuroi, and the unit's accomplishments in the Gallian and Venizian recovery operations has given its witches a status akin to living legends, one which is only aided by their individual records and achievements.