VMF-514
Marine Fighting Squadron 514 (VMF-514) was a short-lived fighter squadron of the United States Marine Corps during World War II. Flying the Vought F4U Corsair, the squadron was originally commissioned to be part of the ill-fated Project Danny, a plan for carrier based Marine Corps aircraft to interdict German V-1 flying bomb launch sites. The squadron did not participate in combat action during the war and was decommissioned on December 9, 1945. No other Marine Corps squadron has carried VMF-514's lineage and honors since that time. History Marine Fighting Squadron 471 (VMF-514) was commissioned on February 20, 1944, at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, North Carolina by authority of Bureau of Aeronautics Directive 30-KV-43. The squadron originally fell under the command of Marine Aircraft Group 51. In June 1944, Navy planners devised a plan for Marine F4U Corsair squadrons of MAG-51 (including VMF-511, VMF-512, and VMF-513) to attack V-1 flying bomb launch sites from escort carriers in the North Sea with Tiny Tim rockets. Project Danny was ultimately disapproved, a victim of the intense interservice rivalry that existed in the US armed forces during World War II; Army Chief of Staff General George Marshall stood up and walked out