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On 13 January 1948 the United States Air Force renamed the facility McGuire Air Force Base in honor of Major Thomas Buchanan McGuire Jr., (1920–1945). Medal of Honor recipient and second place American flying ace of World War II , Major McGuire died on 7 January 1945 when his P-38 Lightning spun out of control and crashed on Negros Island in ...
2d Fighter-Interceptor Squadron Lockheed F-94A [b]. During the Cold War the group was reconstituted, redesignated as the 568th Air Base Group, and activated at McGuire Air Force Base, New Jersey in 1952 [3] in a major reorganization of Air Defense Command (ADC) responding to ADC's difficulty under the existing wing base organizational structure in deploying fighter squadrons to the best ...
Combat Squadrons of the Air Force, World War II (PDF) (reprint ed.). Washington, DC: Office of Air Force History. ISBN 0-405-12194-6. LCCN 70605402. OCLC 72556. Mueller, Robert (1989). Air Force Bases, Vol. I, Active Air Force Bases Within the United States of America on 17 September 1982 (PDF). Washington, DC: Office of Air Force History.
The 4709th Air Defense Wing is a discontinued United States Air Force organization. Its last assignment was with the 26th Air Division of Air Defense Command (ADC) at McGuire Air Force Base, New Jersey, where it was discontinued in 1956.
The number of active duty Air Force Bases within the United States rose from 115 in 1947 to peak at 162 in 1956 before declining to 69 in 2003 and 59 in 2020. This change reflects a Cold War expansion, retirement of much of the strategic bomber force, and the post–Cold War draw-down.
The BOMARC missile site was located 4 miles (6.4 km) east-southeast of McGuire Air Force Base at [ citation needed ] Although geographically separated from the base, it was an off base facility of McGuire and the squadron received administrative and logistical support from McGuire.
26th Air Division ADC AOR 1948–1959. Was established in October 1948 by Air Defense Command (ADC) as intermediate level of command. [1] Initially responsible for atmospheric air defense of middle Atlantic region from North Carolina to greater New York City area east of the Appalachian mountains.
2nd Battalion (Theater Fixed Wing), 228th Aviation Regiment, at McGuire AFB, New Jersey; 8th Battalion (Assault Helicopter), 229th Aviation Regiment, , at Fort Knox, Kentucky; The brigade consists of approximately 2,700 soldiers and 130 aircraft in 13 states. [1]