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On 19 November 1956 the Air Force replaced the 342d Fighter-Day Wing at Myrtle Beach Air Force Base, South Carolina with the 354th Fighter-Day Wing. The 342d Fighter-Day Group 's fighter squadrons ( 33d , 572d and 573d) were replaced by the 353d , 355th and 356th Fighter-Day Squadrons and assigned to the 354th Fighter-Day Group.
It is assigned to the 354th Fighter Wing, being stationed at Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska. It was reactivated in 2019 to operate the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II . The squadron was first activated during World War II and flew the North American P-51 Mustang on escort missions for Eighth Air Force bombers over western Europe from mid-1943.
On 1 April 1948, the Eielson Air Force Base Wing (Base Complement) was formed. The host-unit subsequently would be dubbed the Eielson Air force Base Bomb Wing, and finally, in January 1949, the 5010th Wing. Colonel John L. Nedwed, the third commander of the base since it fell under Alaskan Air Command fifteen months before, became the first to ...
The 168th Wing (168 WG) is a unit of the Alaska Air National Guard, stationed at Eielson Air Force Base, Fairbanks, Alaska.Before it was redesignated in February 2016, it was known as the 168th Air Refueling Wing (168 ARW). [1]
Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska, 20 August 1993 – 15 August 2007 Fort Worth Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base, Texas. 5 October 2015 – 25 October 2019 Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska, 18 Dec 2020 – present [ 1 ] [ 9 ]
Returned to the CONUS in 1957 and upgraded to F-102 Delta Dagger interceptors at the new Wurtsmith Air Force Base, Michigan. Reassigned to Grand Forks AFB, North Dakota in 1960 and received the new McDonnell F-101B Voodoo supersonic interceptor, and the F-101F operational and conversion trainer. The two-seat trainer version was equipped with ...
McGuire Air Force Base: F-106: Inactivated on 23 August 1967 540th Fighter-Day Squadron: Greenville AFB: F-100: Inactivated on 8 February 1957 550th Fighter Squadron: F-15C "Silver Eagles" Active Associate 555th Fighter Squadron
Biggs AFB, Texas, 1957–1960. 3d Tow Target Squadron (TAC) George AFB, California, 1957–1960. 4756th Tow Target Squadron (ADC) Tyndall AFB, Florida, 1957–1960: 8d Bombardment Squadron, TT Flight (PACAF) Re-designated: 6th Tow Target Squadron Johnson AB, Japan, 1957–1960. 17th Tow Target Squadron (ADC) Yuma AFB, Arizona. 1957–1959