467th Strategic Fighter Squadron explained

Unit Name:467th Tactical Fighter Squadron
Dates:1944–1945; 1952–1956
Role:Fighter
Battles:Asiatic-Pacific Theater without inscription[1]
Identification Symbol Label:467 Strategic Fighter Sq emblem[2]
Identification Symbol 2 Label:467th Fighter-Escort Squadron emblem

The 467th Strategic Fighter Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit. Its last assignment was with the 508th Strategic Fighter Wing at Turner Air Force Base, Georgia, where it was inactivated on 11 May 1956.

History

World War II

Formed in late 1944 under Second Air Force as one of the last Republic P-47 Thunderbolt fighter squadrons, programmed for deployment to Western Pacific theater with long-range P-47Ns for Boeing B-29 Superfortress escort missions. Arrived in Hawaii in early 1945, assigned to Seventh Air Force. Lack of a serious fighter defense over Japan at high altitudes and reprogramming of B-29 raids over Japan to night low-level fast attacks led to reassignment as a replacement training unit based in Hawaii; also performed air defense of the islands until inactivation in November 1945.

Strategic Air Command

Reactivated as Strategic Air Command fighter-escort squadron for Boeing B-50 Superfortress and Convair B-36 Peacemaker bombers. Performed fighter-escort training throughout the 1950s, inactivated in 1956 with the phaseout of the escort mission and retirement of the B-36.

Lineage

Activated on 12 October 1944.

Inactivated on 25 November 1945

Activated on 1 July 1952

Redesignated 467th Strategic Fighter Squadron on 20 January 1953

Inactivated on 11 May 1956[1]

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Aircraft

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Notes and References

  1. Maurer, Combat Squadrons, pp.573-574
  2. Approved 11 January 1956.