4676th Air Defense Group

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33d Air Division

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The 4676th Air Defense Group is a discontinued United States Air Force (USAF) organization. Its last assignment was with the 33d Air Division of Air Defense Command (ADC) at Grandview Air Force Base, Missouri, where it was discontinued in 1955. The group was activated at Fairfax Field in 1953 as USAF host for both Fairfax and Grandview. It moved to Grandview when that base was completed and added an operational air defense mission in 1954. It was discontinued in 1955 when ADC replaced air defense groups commanding fighter squadrons with fighter groups that had distinguished records in the two World Wars.

History

The group was organized by Air Defense Command (ADC) in October 1953 when it replaced the 4610th Air Base Squadron, which had been organized on 23 February 1951, as the USAF host organization at Fairfax Field, Kansas.Cornett & Johnson, p. 88 the 4676th was also the USAF host unit for Grandview Air Force Base, Missouri.Mueller, pp. 499–500 The 4676th was assigned two squadrons and a medical unit to carry out its host responsibilities.{{cite web |url= http://www.airforcehistoryindex.org/data/000/464/615.xml |title=Abstract, History 33 Air Division, Jul–Dec 1955|publisher=Air Force History Index|access-date=24 March 2012}} The group was assigned the 326th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron, which was activated at Fairfax Field in December, flying radar equipped and Mighty Mouse rocket armed North American F-86D Sabre fighter aircraft as its operational component.Maurer, Combat Squadrons, p. 402 The 326th's operational mission was air defense of the Kansas City Metropolitan Area and the central Midwest.{{Citation needed|date=March 2012}}

The group moved to Grandview Air Force Base on 16 February 1954. At this time military use of Fairfax Field ended.{{Citation needed|date=March 2012}} The group was discontinued and replaced by the 328th Fighter Group (Air Defense), which assumed its mission, personnel and equipment at Grandview (later Richards-Gebaur Air Force Base) as part of ADC'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.Maurer, Combat Units, p. 209{{cite web|url=http://www.afhra.af.mil/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=9916|last1=Butler|first1=William M.|title=Factsheet 328 Armament Systems Wing (AFMC)|date=27 December 2007|publisher=Air Force Historical Research Agency|url-status=dead|access-date=24 March 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130104174551/http://www.afhra.af.mil/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=9916|archive-date=4 January 2013}}Buss, Sturm, Volan, & McMullen, p. 6

Lineage

Organized as 4676th Air Defense Group on 8 October 1953

: Discontinued on 18 August 1955

=Assignments=

Central Air Defense Force, 8 October 1953 – 1 March 1954
33d Air Division, 1 March 1954 – 18 August 1955

=Components=

326th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron, 18 December 1953 – 18 August 1955
4676th Air Base Squadron, 8 October 1953 – 18 August 1955See Mueller, pp. 499–500
4676th Materiel Squadron, 8 October 1953 – 18 August 1955Cornett & Johnson, p. 148
4676th USAF Infirmary, 8 October 1953 – 19 April 1954{{cite web |url= http://www.airforcehistoryindex.org/data/000/407/984.xml |title=Abstract, History 4676 Infirmary, Jul–Dec 1953|publisher=Air Force History Index|access-date=24 March 2012}}
613th USAF Infirmary, 19 April 1954 – 18 August 1955{{cite web |url= http://www.airforcehistoryindex.org/data/000/407/202.xml |title=Abstract, History 613 Infirmary, Jan–Jun 1954|publisher=Air Force History Index|access-date=24 March 2012}}

=Stations=

Fairfax Field, Kansas, 8 October 1953 – 16 February 1954
Grandview Air Force Base, Missouri, 16 February 1954 – 18 August 1955

=Aircraft=

North American F-86D Sabre, 1953–1955

References

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=Bibliography=

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|year=1980|publisher=Office of History, Aerospace Defense Center|location=Peterson AFB, CO|access-date=20 November 2011|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://archive.today/20210115181723/https://media.defense.gov/2010/Sep/21/2001330256/-1/-1/0/AFD-100921-044.pdf |url-status= dead |archive-date= 15 January 2021 |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://web.archive.org/web/20161220180455/http://media.defense.gov/2010/Dec/02/2001329899/-1/-1/0/AFD-101202-002.pdf|url-status= dead|archive-date= 20 December 2016|edition= reprint|year=1982|publisher=Office of Air Force History|location=Washington, DC|isbn=0-405-12194-6|oclc=72556|lccn=70605402}}
{{cite book|last=Mueller|first=Robert|title=Air Force Bases, Vol. I, Active Air Force Bases Within the United States of America on 17 September 1982|url= https://media.defense.gov/2010/Sep/21/2001330255/-1/-1/0/AFD-100921-026.pdf |year=1989|publisher=Office of Air Force History|location=Washington, DC|isbn=0-912799-53-6}}