| Unit Name: | 402d Fighter-Day Group |
| Dates: | 1943–1943; 1943-1944; 1957 |
| Role: | Day Fighter |
| Battles: | CBI Theater of World War II |
The 402d Fighter-Day Group is an inactive United States Air Force unit. Its last assignment was with Tactical Air Command, being inactivated at Greenville Air Force Base, Mississippi on 8 February 1957.
The 402d Bombardment Group was activated in China and assigned to Fourteenth Air Force in early 1943. Programmed for North American B-25 Mitchell medium bombers, however no aircraft or squadrons were assigned and its headquarters apparently was never fully manned. The unit was disbanded a few months later.[1]
The 402d Fighter Group was first activated by I Fighter Command in October 1943 at Westover Field, Massachusetts, with the 538th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron, 539th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron and 540th Fighter Squadrons assigned.[1] [2] [3] [4] Less than two weeks later, the group moved to Seymour Johnson Field, North Carolina. At Seymour Johnson, the 538th and 539th Squadrons were reassigned to the 326th Fighter Group, which transferred two of its squadrons to the 402d.[3] [5]
The two World War II groups were reconstituted and consolidated as the 402d Fighter-Day Group and assigned to Tactical Air Command.[1] Planned as an F-100 Super Sabre group, however decision was made to keep Greenville AFB as an Air Training Command base. As a result, no aircraft were assigned and the unit was inactivated in 1957.
Activated on 19 May 1943
Disbanded on 31 July 1943
Activated on 1 October 1943
Disbanded on 10 April 1944.
Activated on 15 October 1956[1]
Inactivated on 8 February 1957