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{{short description|Michigan Air National Guard unit}}
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| unit_name                     = 107th Fighter Squadron
| image                         = A-10 Thunderbolt II at Selfridge Air National Guard Base.jpg
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| caption                       = An A-10 Thunderbolt II, flown by the 107th Fighter Squadron, 127th Wing, returns to Selfridge Air National Guard Base, Michigan, after a local training mission on December 28, 2022.
| dates                         = 1917–1919; 1926–1945; 1946–1952; 1952–present
| country                       = United States
| allegiance                    = {{Flag|Michigan}}
| branch                        = {{Flag|United States Air Force}}<br />[[File:US-AirNationalGuard-2007Emblem.svg|25px]]&nbsp; [[Air National Guard]]
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| role                          = [[Close Air Support]]
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| command_structure             = [[Michigan Air National Guard]]
| garrison                      = [[Selfridge Air National Guard Base]], Michigan
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| nickname                      = The Red Devils<ref>{{Cite web |title=Fact Sheet 107th Fighter Squadron |url=https://www.127wg.ang.af.mil/Portals/25/documents/Fact%20Sheets/107th%20Fighter%20Squadron%20fact%20Sheet.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220806210154/https://www.127wg.ang.af.mil/Portals/25/documents/Fact%20Sheets/107th%20Fighter%20Squadron%20fact%20Sheet.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-date=6 August 2022 |website=127wg.ang.af.mil}}</ref>
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| motto                         = ''Videre Est Scire'' [[Latin]] To See is to Know (1954),<ref name=Maurer107TRS>Maurer, ''Combat Squadrons'', pp. 336–337</ref> ''Mors Hostibus'' (Latin) Death to the Enemy
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| commander1                    = Brig. Gen. Matthew G. Brancato
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| commander2                    = Col. David J. Spehar
| commander2_label              = Deputy Commander
| commander3                    = Chief Master Sgt. Richard D. Gordon
| commander3_label              = Wing Commander Chief
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The '''107th Fighter Squadron''' is a unit of the [[Michigan Air National Guard]] [[127th Wing]]. It is assigned to [[Selfridge Air National Guard Base]], Michigan and is equipped with the [[Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II]] aircraft.

The squadron is a descendant organization of the [[World War I]] '''107th Aero Squadron''', established on 27 August 1917. It was reformed on 7 May 1926, as the '''107th Observation Squadron''', and is one of the [[List of observation squadrons of the United States Army National Guard|29 original National Guard Observation Squadrons]] of the [[United States Army National Guard]] formed before [[World War II]].

==History==

===World War I===
The 107th Fighter Squadron traces its origins to 26 August 1917 with the organization of the '''107th Aero Squadron'''. Forty recruits arrived at [[Kelly Field]], San Antonio, Texas from [[Vancouver Barracks]], Washington. An additional 341 recruits arrived from [[Fort Thomas, Kentucky]], and 110 men and along with the 40 from Vancouver were formed as the 107th. The squadron was initially indoctrinated into military service, performing drill, fatigue duties and also construction work at the field. Once basic indoctrination training was completed, the 107th was ordered for overseas duty, being ordered to report to the [[Aviation Concentration Center]], [[Garden City, New York|Garden City]], Long Island on 26 October. It was there that final arrangements were made for the trip overseas, complete equipment was drawn and a final few transfers were made.<ref name="Gorrell">Gorrell, {{page needed|date=August 2017}}</ref>

On 7 December, the 107th was ordered to proceed by train to [[St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador|St. John's]], Newfoundland. On 10 December it boarded the {{SS|Tuscania|1914}} for the cross-Atlantic voyage, arriving on Christmas morning at [[Liverpool]], England. After a brief rest, the squadron arrived at [[Southampton]], England on the 29th, and crossed the English Channel to [[Le Havre]], France. There, it then traveled by train to the Replacement Concentration Center, American Expeditionary Forces, [[St. Maixent Replacement Barracks]], France, arriving on 2 January 1918. At St. Maixent the squadron was redesignated as the 801st Aero Squadron, and placed on camp duty for nearly two months. Finally, it was ordered to proceed to the [[Third Aviation Instruction Center]] at [[Issoudun Aerodrome]], in central France, arriving on 21 February. Initially the squadron was assigned to the main airfield, working in the aircraft assembly and test departments. On 7 June, help was needed at Field No. 2, and the 801st was ordered to send 100 men to help put the field in better shape. Cooperating with another squadron, Field No. 2 was placed on an efficient basis as any field in the AEF.<ref name="Gorrell"/>

The squadron remained at Issoudun until after the Armistice with Germany in November 1918, then returned to the United States in March 1919. Arrived at [[Mitchel Field]] where the squadron members were demobilized and returned to civilian life.<ref name="Gorrell"/><ref group=note>Maurer and Clay both say Gardem City was the demobilization location. Maurer, ''Combat Squadrons'', p. 336, Clay, p. 1446. There were several installations there, including Fort Mills, Kindley Field and Hazelhurst Field in addition to Mitchel.</ref>

===Intra-war period===
After the war the squadron was reorganized in 1925 as the [[Michigan National Guard]]'s first flying unit, the squadron consisted of 20 officers and 90 enlisted men meeting weekly in a Detroit garage. It received Federal recognition in May 1926 as the air section of the Michigan National Guard's [[32nd Division (Michigan)|32d Division]]. Its primary mission was artillery spotting and observation of troop movements.<ref name=avia>{{cite web |url= http://www.aviamagazine.com/factsheets/orbat/107FS/index.aspx |last1=Jongerman|first1=Fritz|title=Order of Battle: 107th FS|date=January 2004|publisher=Aviamagazine.com|access-date=19 August 2017}}</ref>

In March 1938, elements of the 107th Observation Squadron performed gunnery training at [[Eglin Field]], Florida, for 15 days, deploying from [[Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport|Wayne County Airport]] at Detroit, Michigan. 23 officers and 111 men arrived on 1 March. One detachment flew in eight aircraft while the rest arrived by rail over the [[Louisville and Nashville Railroad]] at [[Crestview, Florida]].<ref>Crestview, Florida, "Aerial Squadron Flies Eight Planes To Val-P For Gunnery Practice", ''Okaloosa News-Journal'', Crestview, Florida, Friday 4 March 1938, Volume 24, Number 10, page 6.</ref>

===World War II===
Called to active duty with [[Douglas O-38]] and [[North American O-47]] observation planes on 15 October 1940, the 107th was sent to [[DeRidder Army Air Base]], Louisiana for unit training on 28 October 1940. For many years this airfield was simply called the Artillery Range Airport Camp.

On 11 April 1941, Lieutenant Wilmer Esler was killed in the crash of his O-47 when it experienced an engine failure on takeoff.<ref name="0441AAIR">{{cite web | title = April 1941 USAAF Accident Reports | publisher = Aviation Archaeological Investigation and Research | url = http://www.aviationarchaeology.com/src/AARmonthly/Apr1941.htm | access-date =9 January 2007}}</ref>
The [[United States Department of War|War Department]] announced on 19 June 1941 that the [[United States Army Air Corps|Air Corps]] field at Camp Beauregard would be named [[Esler Field]] in honor of his sacrifice.<ref name="LAWWII">{{cite web |title=Louisiana Maneuver Camps and Bases |work=Louisiana: World Renown Involvement in World War II |publisher=Louisiana Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism |url=http://www.crt.state.la.us/tourism/lawwii/Maneuvers/Robertson/Camps.htm#Esler_Field |access-date=9 January 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081207000900/http://www.crt.state.la.us/tourism/lawwii/maneuvers/robertson/Camps.htm#Esler_Field |archive-date=7 December 2008 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

In 1941, the 107th was joined by two other National Guard observation units to form the [[67th Observation Group]]. The 67th Group did anti-submarine patrolling off the East Coast of the US from mid-December 1941 to March 1942, when it returned to Louisiana for training in fighter aircraft.

The 67th Group was sent to [[RAF Membury]], England, in August 1942 and flew [[Supermarine Spitfire]] Mk. Vs and [[De Havilland Tiger Moth]]s for a year until equipped with [[North American F-6 Mustang]]s. Pre-invasion missions began in December 1943. For successful photo missions of the French invasion coastline without loss of a single aircraft, the 107th was awarded the Presidential Unit Citation on 7 April 1945. The 67th Group advance detachments landed in Normandy 13 days after D-Day. The [[Belgian Fourragere]] was awarded for conspicuous action during the [[Battle of the Bulge]].

In June 2018, A-10s from the 107th flew over Normandy Beach as part of anniversary observances of D-Day. It was the first official mission for the 107th over Normandy since the end of World War II.

===Michigan Air National Guard===
[[File:107th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron - RF-84F 51-1925 MI ANG.jpg|thumb|107th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron RF-84F Thunderstreak<ref group=note>Aircraft is RF-84F Thunderstreak serial 51-1925, about 1960</ref>]]
[[File:107th Tactical Fighter Squadron A-7D 71-0308.jpg|thumb|A-7D of the 107th Tactical Fighter Squadron about 1989]]
[[File:107th Fighter Squadron General Dynamics F-16C Block 30C Fighting Falcon 86-0235.jpg|thumb|107th Fighter Squadron F-16C<ref group=note>Aircraft is General Dynamics F-16C Block 30 serial 86–235 at Selfridge ANGB with the pilot and crew chief right going over the forms during preparations to deploy on 24 February 2004.</ref>]]
The wartime 107th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron was redesignated as the '''107th Bombardment Squadron''' (Light), and was allotted to the National Guard on 24 May 1946. It was organized at Wayne County Airport, Michigan on 9 June 1946 and was extended federal recognition in September. It was assigned to the newly organized Michigan National Guard's [[127th Fighter Group]]. The squadron was equipped with F-51H Mustang.

In 1950, the unit was converted to [[Republic F-84B Thunderjet]] jets and on 1 February 1951, the unit was activated as part of the 127th Pilot Training Group and moved to [[Luke Air Force Base]], Arizona. The 107th was inactivated and returned to Michigan in November 1952.

F-16s from the 107th Fighter Squadron deployed to [[Kirkuk Air Base]] in February 2004 to replace the [[354th Fighter Squadron]]. The 107th became the first [[General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon]] unit to be based in Iraq. The unit returned home in early June 2004.

As a result of the [[2005 Base Realignment and Closure]] decision, the 107th converted from the F-16 to the [[Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II]].<ref name=MI>"Red Devils Return to Michigan." Press Release. Michigan.gov. Retrieved 4 November 2007. [http://www.michigan.gov/homeland/0,1607,7-173-23616-163835--,00.html New Page 2]</ref> The 107th flew its last sortie with F-16s on 16 December 2008. The three remaining F-16s on the base were scheduled to be transferred to [[Fort Wayne Air National Guard Station]], Indiana, and twenty-four A-10s are scheduled to arrive at Selfridge in May 2009.<ref name=F16>"F-16s fly away from Selfridge" Chad Selweski, Macomb Daily. Retrieved 19 December 20087. [http://www.macombdaily.com/articles/2008/12/19/news/srv0000004311506.txt F-16s fly away from Selfridge – macombdaily.com] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120218151953/http://www.macombdaily.com/articles/2008/12/19/news/srv0000004311506.txt |date=18 February 2012 }}</ref>

On April 29th, 2025 it was announced during a base visit by President Donald Trump that the existing [[Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II|A-10's]] would be replaced with the new [[Boeing F-15EX Eagle II|F-15EX]] platform. 21 of these jets will be delivered in fiscal 2028.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Egan |first=Paul |title=Selfridge to receive 21 new F-15EX fighter jets, Trump announces in Michigan |url=https://www.freep.com/story/news/politics/2025/04/29/selfridge-to-get-f-15ex-jets-trump-says/83340095007/ |access-date=2025-04-30 |website=Detroit Free Press |language=en-US}}</ref>

==Lineage==
; 107th Aero Squadron
* Organized as the '''107th Aero Squadron''' on 27 August 1917<ref group=note>This unit is not related to another 107th Aero Squadron that was activated in March 1918 at [[Rich Field]], Waco, Texas, moved the same month to [[Carlstrom Field]], Florida, redesignated Squadron A, Carlstrom Field in July 1918 and demobilized in November 1918, with its personnel and equipment being transferred to the Flying School Detachment, Carlstrom Field.</ref>

: Redesignated: '''801st Aero Squadron''' on 1 February 1918
: Redesignated: '''801st Aero Squadron''' (Repair) on 21 February 1918
: Demobilized on 18 March 1919
* Reconstituted and consolidated with the '''107th Observation Squadron''' as the '''107th Observation Squadron''' on 20 October 1936<ref name=Maurer107TRS2>Lineage, including assignments, through May 1946 in Maurer, ''Combat Squadrons'', pp. 336–337, except as noted.</ref><ref name=Clay>Clay, p. 1443</ref>

; 107th Fighter Squadron
* Constituted as the '''107th Squadron''' (Observation) and allotted to the Michigan National Guard in 1921<ref name=Clay/>
: Redesignated '''107th Observation Squadron''' on 25 January 1923<ref name=Clay/>
: Organized and federally recognized on 7 May 1926
* Consolidated with the '''801st Aero Squadron''' on 20 October 1936<ref name=Clay/>
: Ordered to active service on 15 October 1940
: Redesignated '''107th Observation Squadron''' (Light) on 13 January 1942
: Redesignated '''107th Observation Squadron''' on 4 July 1942
: Redesignated '''107th Reconnaissance Squadron''' (Fighter) on 31 May 1943
: Redesignated '''107th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron''' on 13 November 1943
: Inactivated on 9 November 1945
* Redesignated '''107th Bombardment Squadron''' (Light) and allotted to the National Guard on 24 May 1946<ref name=Maurer107TRS2/>
: Activated on 9 July 1946
: Federally recognized 26 September 1946<ref name=avia/>
: Redesignated '''107th Fighter Squadron''', Jet on 1 July 1950<ref name=avia/>
: Ordered into active service on 1 February 1951
: Redesignated '''107th Pilot Training Squadron''' on 1 February 1951
: Inactivated, relieved from active duty and returned to the National Guard on 1 November 1952
* Redesignated '''107th Fighter-Bomber Squadron''' and activated in the Michigan Air National Guard on 1 November 1952<ref name=avia/>
: Redesignated '''107th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron''' on 1 July 1955<ref name=avia/>
: Redesignated '''107th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron''', Photo-Jet on 12 April 1958<ref name=avia/>
: Redesignated '''107th Tactical Fighter Squadron''' on 30 June 1972
: Redesignated '''107th Fighter Squadron''' on 31 March 1992

===Assignments===
* Post Headquarters, Kelly Field, 27 August 1917
* Aviation Concentration Center, 31 October – 7 December 1917
* Replacement Concentration Center, American Expeditionary Forces, 2 January 1918
* Third Aviation Instruction Center, 21 February 1918
* Services of Supply, American Expeditionary Forces, 4 January–8 March 1919
* Eastern Department, 8–18 Mar 1919
* 32d Division Air Service (later Divisional Aviation, 32d Division), 7 May 1926<ref>Clay, p. 1275</ref>
* Attached to [[32nd Infantry Division (United States)|32d Division]], 15 February 1929<ref name=Clay/>
* 46th Observation Group, 1 October 1933<ref name=Clay/>
* Fourth Corps Area 15 October 1940
* V Army Corps, c. December 1940
* 67th Observation Group (later 67th Reconnaissance Group, 67th Tactical Reconnaissance Group), 1 September 1941 – 9 November 1945<ref name=Maurer107TRS2/>
* 127th Fighter Group, 29 September 1946
* [[66th Fighter Wing]], 26 November 1946
* [[126th Bombardment Group]], February 1947
* 127th Fighter Group (later 127th Pilot Training Group), c. 1 July 1950 – 1 November 1952
* 127th Fighter-Bomber Group (later 127th Fighter-Interceptor Group, 127th Fighter Group, 127th Tactical Reconnaissance Group, 127th Tactical Fighter Group), 1 November 1952
* [[127th Tactical Fighter Wing]] (later 127th Fighter Wing), 9 December 1974
* 127th Operations Group, c. 1 January 1993 – present

===Stations===
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* Kelly Field, Texas, 27 August 1917
* [[Hazelhurst Field]], New York, c. 31 October-7 December 1917
* St. Maixent Replacement Barracks, France, 2 January 1918
* Issoudun Aerodrome, France, 21 February 1918
* [[St Nazaire]], France, c. 4 January 1919 – 1919
* Garden City, New York, c. 8–18 March 1919
* Detroit Airport, Michigan, 7 May 1926
* Wayne County Airport, Michigan, c. 1929
* DeRidder Army Air Base, Louisiana, 28 October 1940
* [[Charleston Army Air Base]], South Carolina, c. 14 December 1941
* [[Esler Field]], Louisiana, 30 January-12 August 1942
* RAF Membury (AAF-466),<ref name=Anderson>Station number in Anderson.</ref> England, c. 7 September 1942
* [[RAF Aldermaston]] (AAF-467),<ref name=Anderson/> England, 25 November 1942
* RAF Membury (AAF-466),<ref name=Anderson/> England, 8 January 1943
* [[RAF Middle Wallop]] (AAF-449),<ref name=Anderson/> England, 11 December 1943
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* [[Deux Jumeaux Airfield]] (A-4),<ref name=Johnson>Station number in Johnson.</ref> France, 28 June 1944
* [[Le Molay Airfield]] (A-8),<ref name=Johnson/> France, 5 July 1944
* [[Toussus-le-Noble Airport]] (A-46),<ref name=Johnson/> France, 29 August 1944
* [[Gosselies Airfield]] (AAF-184)<ref name=Anderson/> (A-87),<ref name=Johnson/> Belgium, 16 September 1944
: Operated from: [[Chievres Airfield]] (A-84),<ref name=Johnson/> Belgium, 7–18 Dec 1944
* [[Vogelsang Airfield]] (Y-51),<ref name=Johnson/> Germany, 23 March 1945
* [[Limburg Airfield]] (Y-83),<ref name=Johnson/> Germany, 4 April 1945
* [[Eschwege Airfield]] (R-11),<ref name=Johnson/> Germany, 9 Apr-5 Ju1 1945
* [[Drew Field]], Florida, 16 September–9 November 1945<ref>Stations through 1945 in Maurer, ''Combat Squadrons'', pp. 336–337, except as noted.</ref>
* Wayne County Airport, MI, 9 July 1946 – 1 February 1951<ref name=avia/>
* [[Luke Air Force Base]], Arizona, 1 February 1951 – 1 November 1952<ref name=avia/>
* Detroit-Wayne Major Airport, Michigan, 1 November 1952<ref name=avia/>
* [[Selfridge Air National Guard Base]], (formerly Selfridge Air Force Base), Michigan, July 1971 – present<ref name=avia/>
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=== Aircraft ===
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* Included [[Consolidated PT-1]], [[Northrop BT]]-1, and [[Douglas O-2]] during period 1927–1932
* [[Douglas O-38]], 1931–1941
* In addition to [[North American O-47]], c. 1938–1942,<ref>{{cite journal|journal=AAHS Journal|date=Spring 2004|title=The Known North American O-47 Assigned to Pre-World War II Air National Guard Squadrons|author=William J Brenell}}</ref> and [[O-49]], 1941–1942
* Included [[Curtiss O-52 Owl]], [[A-20 Havoc]], and [[P-51A Mustang]] in 1942
* Supermarine Spitfire Mk.Vb, 1942–1944
* [[L-4 Grasshopper]], 1942–1943
* [[F-3A Havoc]] and [[DB-7 Boston]], 1943
* North American F-6B Mustang, 1943–1945
* North American F-51H Mustang, 1946–1950
* [[F-84 Thunderjet]], 1950–1952
* [[F-51H Mustang]], 1951–1952
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* [[F-80 Shooting Star]], 1951–1952
* [[F-84 Thunderjet]], 1951–1952
* [[F-86E Sabre]], 1952–1953
* [[F-89C Scorpion]], 1953–1958
* [[RF-84F Thunderstreak]], 1958–1971
* [[RF-101C Voodoo]], 1971–1972
* [[F-100D Super Sabre]], 1972–1978
* [[A-7D Corsair II]], 1979–1989
* [[General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon]], 1989–2008
* [[Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II]], 2008–present
* [[Boeing F-15EX Eagle II]] (planned 2028)
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==See also==
{{Portal|Michigan}}
* [[List of American aero squadrons]]
* [[List of observation squadrons of the United States Army National Guard]]

==References==
; Notes
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; Citations
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==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/19981205155908/http://www.miself.ang.af.mil/ 127th Wing]
* [http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/agency/usaf/107fs.htm Global Security – 107th Fighter Squadron]

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