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This is a list of United States Air Force fighter squadrons. It covers units considered to be part of the Combat Air Force (CAF) such as fighter squadrons and serves as a break out of the comprehensive List of United States Air Force squadrons. Units in this list are assigned to nearly every Major Command in the United States Air Force.
Squadron Emblem Location Status Notes: 17th Special Tactics Squadron: Fort Moore, Georgia: Active [2] 21st Special Tactics Squadron: Pope Field, North Carolina: Active [3] 22nd Special Tactics Squadron: McChord Air Force Base, Washington: Active [3] 23rd Special Tactics Squadron: Hurlburt Field, Florida: Active [3] 24th Special Tactics Squadron ...
The 367th Fighter Group arrived from Oakland Municipal Airport, California flying Lockheed P-38 Lightnings. They had the following fighter squadrons and fuselage codes: 392d Fighter Squadron (H5) 393d Fighter Squadron (8L) 394th Fighter Squadron (4N) The 367th was a group of Ninth Air Force's 70th Fighter Wing, IX Tactical Air Command.
14th Fighter Squadron: Fighting Samurai [370] Pacific Air Forces: Fifth Air Force: 35 FW: 20 June 1942 [371] Misawa AB, Japan: F-16C [372] WW: 19th Fighter Squadron: Gamecocks [373] Pacific Air Forces: Eleventh Air Force: 15 WG: 14 June 1917 [374] JB Pearl Harbor–Hickam, Hawaii [375] F-22A [375] HH: 21st Fighter Squadron: Gamblers [376] Air ...
During the planning of the second front which became the invasion of Normandy, it was foreseen that as the allied armies advanced, aircraft operating from airfields in England would be decreasingly effective and that to maintain air cover allied fighter squadrons would need to accompany the advancing divisions.
415th Night Fighter Squadron; 416th Night Fighter Squadron; 417th Night Fighter Squadron; 418th Night Fighter Squadron; 419th Night Fighter Squadron; 420th Night Fighter Squadron; 421st Night Fighter Squadron; 422d Night Fighter Squadron; 423d Night Fighter Squadron; 424th Night Fighter Squadron; 425th Night Fighter Squadron; 426th Night ...
A target was set to establish 37 new squadrons in the next 12 months, equipped with up-to-date single-seat fighters and manned by specially selected and trained pilots, to counter the successes of the Allied fighter squadrons operated by the RFC and the French Aéronautique Militaire.
The 306th Tactical Fighter Squadron was founded on at Hyakuri Air Base on December 1, 1981 with F-4EJ aircraft. The squadron was the successor to the Lockheed F-104J/DJ Starfighter-equipped 205th Tactical Fighter Squadron. It was the sixth and final squadron of the JASDF to be equipped with the F-4.