460th Fighter-Interceptor Training Squadron explained

Unit Name:460th Test and Evaluation Squadron
Dates:1942–1982; 2023-presnt
Country: United States
Type:Test
Current Commander:Lt Col Eric Otto
Motto:Cave Tigrim Latin Beware of the Tiger[1]
Decorations:Distinguished Unit Citation
Air Force Outstanding Unit Award
Philippine Presidential Unit Citation
Identification Symbol Label:Patch with 460th Fighter-Interceptor Training Squadron emblem
Identification Symbol 2 Label:Patch with 460th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron emblem (approved 17 January 1955)

The 460th Test and Evaluation Squadron is an active United States Air Force unit. It was previously assigned to Tactical Air Command's 325th Fighter Weapons Wing at Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida, where it was inactivated on 15 October 1982. On 11 August 2023, it was reactivated and assigned to the 926th Operations Group, 926th Wing at Nellias AFB, Nevada.

History

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 U.S. Air Force Air Defense Command, stationed at Knoxville, for air defense of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and TVA dams in eastern Tennessee. Moved to Portland AFB, Oregon, and flew air defense missions over the Pacific Northwest, later to southern California in 1968 at Oxnard AFB, which closed a year later; it then 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

Activated on 20 November 1942

Redesignated 460th Fighter Squadron, Single Engine on 14 July 1944

Inactivated on 20 February 1946

Activated on 18 March 1954[2]

Discontinued on 25 March 1966

Organized on 30 September 1968

Inactivated on 30 July 1974

Activated on 15 November 1980

Inactivated on 15 October 1982

Activated on 11 August 2023

Assignments

Stations

Aircraft

References

Notes

Bibliography

Notes and References

  1. Maurer, Combat Squadrons, pp. 567–568
  2. Lineage, including assignments, stations and aircraft through 1963 in Maurer, Combat Squadrons, pp. 567–568

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