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329th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron

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|caption=Squadron F-106 Delta Dart, taken in the mid-1960s.{{efn|Aircraft is Convair F-106A-105-CO Delta Dart serial 59-0023. It was assigned to the squadron from December 1964 to May 1967. Later sent to the Military Aircraft Storage and Disposition Center (MASDC) on 11 July 1988. Converted to QF-106 drone. Transferred to the Air Mobility Command Museum at Dover AFB in 1998 for display. {{cite web |url=https://www.crouze.com/baugher/usaf_serials/1959.html |last1=Dirkx|first1=Marco |title=1959 USAF Serial Numbers|date=11 June 2023|publisher=Joe Baugher’s Serial Number List|access-date=December 3, 2024}}}}

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The 329th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit. Its last assignment was with Los Angeles Air Defense Sector at George Air Force Base, California, where it was inactivated on 1 July 1967.

History

=World War II=

Established in mid-1942 as a IV Fighter Command Operational Training Unit (OTU) with a mission to train fighter pilots on single-engine fighter aircraft. Later became a Replacement Training Unit (RTU). Inactivated in early 1944 when the need for fighter pilots was reduced.

=Air defense=

File:329th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron North American F-86D-40-NA Sabre 52-3719.jpg. {{cite web |url=https://www.crouze.com/baugher/usaf_serials/1952.html |last1=Dirkx|first1=Marco |title=1952 USAF Serial Numbers|date=21 June 2024|publisher=Joe Baugher’s Serial Number List|access-date=December 3, 2024}}}}]]

The squadron was redesignated the 329th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron and reactivated at George Air Force Base, California in August 1955 as part of Air Defense Command's Project Arrow, which was designed to bring back on the active list the fighter units which had compiled memorable records in the two world wars.Buss, Sturm, Volan, & McMullen, p.6 At George. the squadron replaced the 456th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron, which had been detached from the 520th Air Defense Group at Truax Field, Wisconsin, assuming its North American F-86D Sabres and its mission to provide air defense over the Southern California region.Maurer, Combat Squadrons, p. 562

File:329th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron Convair F-102A-90-CO Delta Dagger 57-811.jpg for use as a range target on 15 May 1985. {{cite web |url=https://www.crouze.com/baugher/usaf_serials/1957.html |last1=Dirkx|first1=Marco |title=1957 USAF Serial Numbers|date=21 June 2024|publisher=Joe Baugher’s Serial Number List|access-date=December 3, 2024}}}}]]

In the spring of 1957 it received F-86L Sabres and a year later transitioned into Convair F-102A Delta Dagger aircraft. In July 1960 the unit began flying Convair F-106 Delta Darts. The 329th was inactivated on 31 July 1967 as part of the phasedown of ADC.

Lineage

  • Constituted as the 329th Fighter Squadron (Single Engine) on 24 June 1942

: Activated on 10 July 1942

: Redesignated 329th Fighter Squadron, Single Engine c. 1 August 1943

: Disbanded on 31 March 1944

  • Reconstituted and redesignated 329th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron on 20 June 1955

: Activated on 18 August 1955Lineage, including assignments, stations and aircraft, through 1963 in Maurer, Combat Squadrons, p. 406

: Inactivated on 1 July 1967

=Assignments=

=Stations=

=Aircraft=

  • Bell P-39 Airacobra, 1942–1944
  • North American F-86D Sabre, 1955–1958
  • Convair F-102 Delta Dagger, 1958–1960
  • Convair F-106 Delta Dart, 1960–1967

References

; Explanatory notes

{{Notelist}}

; Citations

{{Reflist|30em}}

=Bibliography=

{{Air Force Historical Research Agency}}

  • Buss, Lydus H.(ed), Sturm, Thomas A., Volan, Denys, and McMullen, Richard F., History of Continental Air Defense Command and Air Defense Command July to December 1955, Directorate of Historical Services, Air Defense Command, Ent AFB, CO, (1956)
  • {{cite book|last=Cornett|first=Lloyd H|author2=Johnson, Mildred W|title=A Handbook of Aerospace Defense Organization, 1946–1980|url=http://www.usafpatches.com/pubs/handbookofadcorg.pdf|access-date=23 March 2012|year=1980|publisher=Office of History, Aerospace Defense Center|location=Peterson AFB, CO|archive-date=13 February 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160213173347/http://www.usafpatches.com/pubs/handbookofadcorg.pdf|url-status=dead}}
  • {{cite book|editor=Maurer, Maurer|title=Air Force Combat Units of World War II|orig-year= 1961|url= http://media.defense.gov/2010/Sep/21/2001330256/-1/-1/0/AFD-100921-044.pdf|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20161220180735/http://media.defense.gov/2010/Sep/21/2001330256/-1/-1/0/AFD-100921-044.pdf|url-status= dead|archive-date= 20 December 2016|access-date= 17 December 2016|edition=reprint|year=1983|publisher= Office of Air Force History|location=Washington, DC|isbn=0-912799-02-1|lccn=61060979}}
  • {{cite book|editor=Maurer, Maurer|title=Combat Squadrons of the Air Force, World War II|orig-year=1969|url= http://media.defense.gov/2010/Dec/02/2001329899/-1/-1/0/AFD-101202-002.pdf |archive-url= https://archive.today/20230820144531/https://media.defense.gov/2010/Dec/02/2001329899/-1/-1/0/AFD-101202-002.pdf |url-status= dead |archive-date= 20 August 2023 |edition= reprint|access-date= 17 December 2016|year=1982|publisher=Office of Air Force History|location=Washington, DC|isbn=0-405-12194-6|oclc=72556|lccn=70605402}}
  • {{cite journal |title=ADCOM's Fighter Interceptor Squadrons|journal=The Interceptor |date= January 1979|publisher=Aerospace Defense Command |volume= 21|issue= 1 |pages=5–11, 26–31, 40–45, 54–59}}

External links

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