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432d Fighter Interceptor Squadron

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Active
  
1943–1949; 1952–1958

Role
  
Fighter-Interceptor

Country
  
United States

Part of
  
Air Defense Command

432d Fighter-Interceptor Squadron

Branch
  
United States Air Force

Decorations
  
Distinguished Unit Citation Philippine Republic Presidential Unit Citation

The 432d Fighter-Interceptor Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit. Its last assignment was with the 475th Fighter Group at Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport, Minnesota, where it was inactivated on 2 January 1958.

Contents

World War II and Army of Occupation

Combat in Southwest Pacific and Western Pacific, 12 August 1943 – 21 July 1945. Occupation duty (Korea and Japan), 1945–1949.

Air defense operations

Air Defense of Upper Midwest, 1952–1958.

Lineage

  • Activated on 14 May 1943 by special authority prior to constitution as 432d Fighter Squadron on 15 May 1943
    • Inactivated on 1 April 1949
  • Redesignated 432d Fighter-Interceptor Squadron on 10 October 1952
    • Activated on 1 December 1952 Inactivated on 2 January 1958

    Assignments

  • 475th Fighter Group, 14 May 1943 – 1 April 1949
  • 31st Air Division, 1 December 1952
  • 520th Air Defense Group, 16 February 1953
  • 475th Fighter Group, 18 August 1955 – 2 January 1958

    • References

    432d Fighter-Interceptor Squadron Wikipedia
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