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The group was redesignated as the 14th Fighter Group (Air Defense) and reactivated on 18 August 1955 at Ethan Allen Air Force Base, Vermont [2] to replace the 517th Air Defense Group, whose mission, equipment, and personnel were transferred to the 14th [18] as part of ADC's Project Arrow, which was designed to bring back on the active list the ...
The squadron was first activated at Colorado Springs, Colorado in June 1942 as the 14th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron, although it was more than a month before it moved to nearby Peterson Field and began training with Lockheed F-4 Lightnings under the 3d Photographic Group. [1]
The group was reconstituted, redesignated as the 53d Fighter Group ... (later 14th Fighter Squadron, 14th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron): 15 January 1941 – 1 May ...
14th Fighter Squadron: Misawa AB: F-16C ... Inactivated on 7 November 1945 - Reactivated 24 May 1946 and Redesignated 195th Fighter Squadron, 146th Fighter Group ...
The 14th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit. Its last assignment was with the 53d Fighter Group at Sioux City Municipal Airport, Iowa, where it was inactivated on 1 April 1960. The squadron was first activated in 1941 as the 14th Fighter Squadron.
The 14th Fighter Group (Air Defense) assumed the mission, personnel, and equipment of the 517th Air Defense Group, which was simultaneously inactivated. [ 13 ] [ 7 ] The squadron upgraded to AIM-4 Falcon armed Convair F-102 Delta Daggers in December 1957. [ 12 ]
In addition to the core Fourteenth Air Force (14AF) structure, a second group, the Chinese-American Composite Wing (CACW), existed as a combined 1st Bomber, 3rd Fighter, and 5th Fighter Group with pilots from both the United States and the Republic of China. U.S. service personnel destined for the CACW entered the China theater in mid-July 1943.
In August 1943, Major Leverette was made the commanding officer of the 37th Fighter Squadron, 14th Fighter Group, Twelfth Air Force. The 14th Fighter Group flew P-38 Lightnings and was based at Sainte Marie du Zit Airfield in Tunisia. In September, Leverette's fighter group was moved to RAF Gambut 2 near Tobruk, Libya, in order to support ...