11th Fighter Wing explained

Unit Name:11th Fighter Wing
Dates:1940–1941, 1942–1943
Country: United States
Branch:United States Army Air Forces
Type:Fighter
Command Structure:Eighth Air Force
Notable Commanders:Lt Col W. R. Clingerman[1]

The 11th Fighter Wing is a disbanded United States Army Air Forces organization. Its last assignment was with Eighth Air Force at Drew Field, Florida. It was constituted in late and disbanded in late .

History

The wing was constituted in late 1940 at Hamilton Field, California in the buildup of the United States Army Air Corps in response to the start of World War II in Europe.[2] It moved to Army Air Base, Portland in 1941, where it assumed responsibility for organizing two pursuit groups. It was inactivated later that year,[2] and its personnel used as part of the cadre for headquarters units of Fourth Air Force.

The wing was activated the following year at Drew Field, Florida. Although it was programmed for overseas deployment to the European theater and was assigned to Eighth Air Force, it was attached to Third Air Force for training. It was never assigned any combat groups and was inactivated before deploying overseas.[2]

In 1985 the wing was reconstituted on paper as the 367th Electronic Warfare Group,[3] but was never active before being disbanded again in 1992.

Lineage

Activated on 18 December 1940

Inactivated on 2 October 1941

Activated on 1 November 1942

Inactivated on 1 May 1943

Assignments

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Components

Aircraft

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Notes and References

  1. http://www.airforcehistoryindex.org/data/000/104/324.xml Abstract, History of 11th Fighter Wing Nov 1942 – Mar 1943
  2. Book: Maurer, Maurer. Air Force Combat Units of World War II. 1961. reprint. 1983. Office of Air Force History. Washington, DC. 0-912799-02-1. 381.
  3. Department of the Air Force/MPM Letter 648q, 31 July 1985, Subject: Reconstitution, Redesignation, and Consolidation of Selected Air Force Organizations
  4. Maurer, pp. 116–117
  5. Maurer, pp. 117–118