460th Fighter Interceptor Training Squadron

World War II

Established in late 1942 as a ground support squadron. Deployed to the Pacific Theater of Operations in 1943 to Australia where the unit functioned as a ground support unit at Sydney Airport, then at Dobodura in New Guinea. Converted to a P-47 Thunderbolt operational combat unit, engaged in fighter-bomber operations against Japanese positions in New Guinea, Netherlands East Indies and also during the Philippines Campaign (1944-1945). Moved to Okinawa, then Japan after the Japanese Capitulation as part of the Occupation Force, inactivated in 1946.

Air defense

Reactivated in 1954 as part of the United States Air Force Air Defense Command, stationed at Knoxville, Tennessee for air defense of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and TVA Dams in Eastern Tennessee. Moved to Portland Airport, Oregon and flew air defense missions over the Pacific Northwest, later to Southern California in 1968. When Oxnard Air Force Base closed in 1969, moved to Grand Forks AFB, North Dakota until inactivated as part of the drawdown of ADC in 1974.

Fighter training

Reactivated briefly in early 1982 as an air defense training squadron at Tyndall AFB, Florida; inactivated late the same year.

Lineage

Constituted as the 1st Airdrome Squadron on 7 November 1942

Activated on 20 November 1942Redesignated 460th Fighter Squadron, Single Engine on 14 July 1944Inactivated on 20 February 1946

Redesignated 460th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron on 23 March 1953

Activated on 18 March 1954Discontinued on 25 March 1966

Activated on 1 September 1968 (not organized)

Organized on 30 September 1968Inactivated on 30 July 1974

Redesignated 460th Fighter-Interceptor Training Squadron on 1 October 1980

Activated on 15 November 1980Inactivated on 15 October 1982

Assignments

Air Service Command, 20 November 1942

Second Air Force, 28 December 1942

16th Bombardment Training Wing, c. 15 February 1943

Fifth Air Force, c. 1 June 1943 (attached to 310th Bombardment Wing, 1 February 1944; 85th Fighter Wing, c. 16 May–14 July 1944

V Fighter Command, 14 July 1944

348th Fighter Group, 23 September 1944 – 20 February 1946

516th Air Defense Group, 18 March 1954

337th Fighter Group, 18 August 1955 – 25 March 1966

414th Fighter Group, 1 September 1968

408th Fighter Group, 1 December 1969

25th Air Division, 1 October 1970 – 30 July 1974

Air Defense, Tactical Air Command, 15 November 1980

325th Fighter Weapons Wing, 15 August 1981 – 15 October 1982

Aircraft

A-20 Havoc, 1944

P-47 Thunderbolt, 1944–1945

P-51 Mustang, 1945–1946

F-86D Sabre Interceptor, 1954–1955

F-89 Scorpion, 1955–1958

F-102 Delta Dagger, 1958–1966; TF-102, 1982

F-106 Delta Dart, 1968–1974