• Source: 330th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron

The 330th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit. Its last assignment was with the 329th Fighter Group at Stewart Air Force Base, New York, where it was inactivated on 1 July 1959.
It was first active as the 330th Fighter Squadron during World War II, serving as an Operational Training Unit and later as a Replacement Training Unit until being disbanded in a general reorganization of Army Air Forces in the spring of 1944. It was reactivated in November 1942 as an air defense unit.




History






= World War II

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Trained replacement pilots, September 1942 – March 1944; furnished cadres for fighter squadrons, January–December 1943.; served as part of air defense force for the west coast, 1943.




= Cold War air defense

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Air defense of the Northeastern United States, 1954–1967.




Lineage


Constituted as the 330th Fighter Squadron (Two Engine) on 24 June 1942
Activated on 10 July 1942
Disbanded on 31 March 1944
Reconstituted and redesignated 330th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron on 14 November 1952
Activated on 27 November 1952
Inactivated on 1 July 1959




= Assignments

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329th Fighter Group, 10 July 1942 – 31 March 1944
4709th Defense (later Air Defense) Wing, 27 November 1952
4700th Air Defense Group, 20 September 1954
329th Fighter Group, 18 August 1955 – 1 July 1959




= Stations

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Hamilton Field, California, 10 July 1942
Paine Field, Washington, 14 July 1942
Glendale Army Air Base, California, 10 September 1942
Lindbergh Field, California, 2 November 1942 – 31 March 1944
Stewart Air Force Base, New York, 27 November 1952 – 1 July 1959




= Aircraft

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Lockheed P-38 Lightning, 1942–1944
Lockheed F-80 Shooting Star, 1952–1953
North American F-86D Sabre, 1953–1959




References


Notes

Citations




= Bibliography

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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.
Maurer, Maurer, ed. (1983) [1961]. Air Force Combat Units of World War II (PDF) (reprint ed.). Washington, DC: Office of Air Force History. ISBN 0-912799-02-1. LCCN 61060979. Retrieved 17 December 2016.
Maurer, Maurer, ed. (1982) [1969]. Combat Squadrons of the Air Force, World War II (PDF) (reprint ed.). Washington, DC: Office of Air Force History. ISBN 0-405-12194-6. LCCN 70605402. OCLC 72556. Retrieved 17 December 2016.
"ADCOM's Fighter Interceptor Squadrons". The Interceptor. 21 (1). Aerospace Defense Command: 5–11, 26–31, 40–45, 54–59. January 1979.




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