XXVI Fighter Command
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In 1947, when the United States Air Force (USAF) became independent, the Army transferred all Army Air Forces, Air Service and Air Corps units (there were a number of Air Corps units that had never been in the Army Air Forces, and a few Air Service units) to the USAF. A year later, the newly forming USAF permanently disbanded the command.
Lineage
- Constituted as 26th Interceptor Command on 28 February 1942[note 1]
- Activated on 6 March 1942
- Redesignated: 26th Fighter Command on 15 May 1942
- Redesignated: XXVI Fighter Command c. 18 September 1942
- Inactivated on 25 August 1946
- Disbanded on 8 October 1948[1]
Components
- Groups
- 16th Pursuit Group (later 16th Fighter Group), 6 March 1942 – 1 November 1943[2]
- 32d Fighter Group, 6 March 1942 – 1 November 1943[3]
- 37th Fighter Group,[4] 18 September 1942 – 1 November 1943
- 53d Pursuit Group (later 53d Fighter Group), 6 March – 26 November 1942[5]
- Squadrons
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- 24th Fighter Squadron, 1 November 1943 – 25 August 1946[6]
- 28th Fighter Squadron, 1 November 1943 – 25 August 1946[7]
- 29th Fighter Squadron, 1 November 1943 – 8 April 1944[8]
- 30th Fighter Squadron, 1 November 1943 – 25 August 1946[9]
- 31st Fighter Squadron, 1 November 1943 – 8 April 1944[10]
- 32d Fighter Squadron, 13 March 1944 - 25 Aug 1946[11]
- 43d Fighter Squadron, 1 November 1943 – 25 August 1946[12]
- 51st Fighter Squadron, 1 November 1943 – 25 August 1946[13]
- 52d Fighter Squadron, 1 November 1943 – 8 April 1944[note 2]
Stations
- Albrook Field, Panama Canal Zone, 6 March 1942 – 25 August 1946[1]
References
Notes
- Explanatory notes
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- ↑ Maurer indicates the 52d Squadron was assigned to the 32d Fighter Group during this period. However, the group was disbanded on 1 November 1943. Maurer, Combat Squadrons, p. 219. Compare Maurer, Combat Units, p. (assignment to 32d Group terminated in 1943).
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- Citations
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- ↑ a b Maurer, Combat Units, pp. 454-455
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- ↑ Maurer, pp. 454-455 (year only).
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- ↑ Maurer, Combat Squadrons, p. 127
- ↑ Maurer, Combat Squadrons, p. 143
- ↑ Maurer, Combat Squadrons, p. 146
- ↑ Maurer, Combat Squadrons, p. 149
- ↑ Maurer, Combat Squadrons, p. 153
- ↑ Maurer, Combat Squadrons, pp. 157-158
- ↑ Maurer, Combat Squadrons, pp. 196-197
- ↑ Maurer, Combat Squadrons, pp. 217-21
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Bibliography
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