402d Fighter-Day Group

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402d Fighter-Day Group
Active 1943–1943; 1943-1944; 1957
CountryFlag of the United States.svg  United States
BranchFlag of the United States Air Force.svg  United States Air Force
Role Day Fighter
Engagements CBI Theater of World War II

The 402d Fighter-Day Group is an inactive United States Air Force unit. Its last assignment was with Tactical Air Command, being inactivated at Greenville Air Force Base, Mississippi on 8 February 1957.

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History

World War II

The 402d Bombardment Group was activated in China and assigned to Fourteenth Air Force in early 1943. Programmed for North American B-25 Mitchell medium bombers, however no aircraft or squadrons were assigned and its headquarters apparently was never fully manned. The unit was disbanded a few months later. [1]

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North American B-25 Mitchell family of medium bomber aircraft

The North American B-25 Mitchell is an American twin-engine, medium bomber manufactured by North American Aviation (NAA).

The 402d Fighter Group was first activated by I Fighter Command in October 1943 at Westover Field, Massachusetts, with the 538th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron, 539th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron and 540th Fighter Squadrons assigned. [1] [2] [3] [4] Less than two weeks later, the group moved to Seymour Johnson Field, North Carolina. At Seymour Johnson, the 538th and 539th Squadrons were reassigned to the 326th Fighter Group, which transferred two of its squadrons to the 402d. [3] [5]

I Fighter Command 1941-1946 United States Army Air Forces operational command

I Fighter Command was a United States Army Air Forces intermediate command responsible for command and control of the fighter operations within the First Air Force during World War II.

538th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron

The 538th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron is an inactive unit of United States Air Force. It was last assigned to the Spokane Air Defense Sector at Larson Air Force Base, Washington.

539th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron

The 539th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit. Its last assignment was with the New York Air Defense Sector at McGuire Air Force Base, New Jersey, where it was inactivated on 31 August 1967.

Cold War

The two World War II groups were reconstituted and consolidated as the 402d Fighter-Day Group and assigned to Tactical Air Command. [1] Planned as an F-100 Super Sabre group, however decision was made to keep Greenville AFB as an Air Training Command base. As a result no aircraft were assigned and the unit was inactivated in 1957.

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Air Training Command

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Lineage

402d Bombardment Group
Activated on 19 May 1943
Disbanded on 31 July 1943
402d Fighter-Day Group
Activated on 1 October 1943
Disbanded on 10 April 1944.
Activated on 15 October 1956 [1]
Inactivated on 8 February 1957

Assignments

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Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Maurer, Combat Squadrons, pp. 286-287
  2. ↑ Maurer, Combat Squadrons, pp. 644-645
  3. 1 2 Maurer, Combat Squadrons, pp. 645-646
  4. ↑ Maurer, Combat Squadrons, p. 646
  5. ↑ Maurer, Combat Units, p. 208

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