• Source: 31st Air Division

      • The 31st Air Division (31st AD) is an inactive United States Air Force organization. Its last assignment was with Air Defense Command, assigned to Tenth Air Force, being stationed at Sioux City Municipal Airport, Iowa. It was inactivated on 31 December 1969.


      History



      Assigned to Air Defense Command (ADC) for most of its existence, the division equipped, administered, trained, and provided combat ready forces within an area covering North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Minnesota, and other parts of the Midwest. The division participated in numerous live and simulated exercises such as Creek Chief, Pawnee Knife, and Mandan Hunt.

      Later, beginning in 1966, the 31st assumed responsibility for the former Oklahoma City Air Defense Sector and covered an area including Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Louisiana. Assumed additional designation of 31st NORAD Region after activation of the NORAD Combat Operations Center at the Cheyenne Mountain Complex, Colorado and reporting was transferred to NORAD from ADC at Ent Air Force Base in April 1966.
      Inactivated in December 1969 as ADC phased down its interceptor mission as the chances of a Soviet bomber attack on the United States seemed remote, its mission being consolidated into North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD).


      Lineage


      Established as the 31st Air Division (Defense) on 7 September 1950
      Activated on 8 October 1950
      Inactivated on 1 February 1952
      Organized on 1 February 1952
      Inactivated on 1 January 1960
      Redesignated 31st Air Division and activated on 20 January 1966 (not organized)
      Organized on 1 April 1966
      Inactivated on 31 December 1969


      = Assignments

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      Air Defense Command
      Eastern Air Defense Force, 8 October 1950 (attached 30th Air Division, 27 November 1950 – 1 February 1951
      Central Air Defense Force, 20 May 1951 – 1 January 1960
      Air Defense Command, 20 January 1966 (not organized)
      Fourteenth Air Force, 1 April 1966 – 1 July 1968 (ConAC)
      Tenth Air Force, 1 July 1968 – 31 December 1969


      = Stations

      =
      Selfridge Air Force Base, Michigan, 8 October 1950 – 1 February 1952
      Fort Snelling (later Snelling Air Force Station), Minnesota, 1 February 1952 – 1 January 1960
      Oklahoma City Air Force Station, Oklahoma, 1 April 1966 – 31 December 1969


      = Components

      =


      Sectors


      Duluth Air Defense Sector: 20 December 1957 – 1 January 1959
      Duluth Municipal Airport, Minnesota
      Grand Forks Air Defense Sector: 8 December 1957 – 1 January 1959
      Grand Forks Air Force Base, North Dakota


      Groups


      53d Fighter Group: 18 August 1955 – 1 March 1956
      Sioux City Municipal Airport, Iowa
      343d Fighter Group: 18 August 1955 – 1 January 1959
      Duluth Municipal Airport, Minnesota
      475th Fighter Group: 18 August 1955 – 2 January 1958
      Minneapolis-Saint Paul Municipal Airport, Minnesota
      478th Fighter Group: 8 February 1957 – 1 January 1959
      Grand Forks Air Force Base, North Dakota
      514th Air Defense Group: 16 February 1953 – 18 August 1955
      Minneapolis-Saint Paul Municipal Airport, Minnesota
      515th Air Defense Group: 16 February 1953 – 18 August 1955
      Duluth Municipal Airport, Minnesota
      521st Air Defense Group: 16 February 1953 – 18 August 1955.
      Sioux City Municipal Airport, Iowa


      Interceptor squadrons




      Radar squadrons




      See also


      List of United States Air Force Aerospace Defense Command Interceptor Squadrons
      List of United States Air Force air divisions
      United States general surveillance radar stations


      References




      = Notes

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      = Bibliography

      =
      This article incorporates public domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency

      Cornett, Lloyd H; Johnson, Mildred W (1980). A Handbook of Aerospace Defense Organization, 1946–1980 (PDF). Peterson AFB, CO: Office of History, Aerospace Defense Center. Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 February 2016. Retrieved 23 March 2012.
      Winkler, David F.; Webster, Julie L (1997). Searching the skies: The legacy of the United States Cold War Defense Radar Program. Champaign, IL: US Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratories. LCCN 97020912.
      "ADCOM's Fighter Interceptor Squadrons". The Interceptor (January 1979) Aerospace Defense Command, (Volume 21, Number 1)

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