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432d Fighter-Interceptor Squadron
432dfis
Emblem of the 432d Fighter-Interceptor Squadron
Active 1943–1958
Country United States
Branch United States Air Force
Type Fighter-Interceptor
Commanders
Notable
commanders
Captain (later Colonel) John S. Loisel
432d Fighter-Interceptor Squadron North American F-86D-40-NA Sabres

North American F-86D-40-NA Sabres 520th Air Defense Group, Truax Field, Wisconsin, Nov 1953 Identified Aircraft: 52-3622, 52-3717

432d FIS F-89H

432d Fighter-Interceptor Squadron Northrop F-89H-5-NO Scorpion 54-409 Stationed at Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport, Minnesota. At Indian Springs Auxiliary Airfield, Nevada, armed with a "Genie" nuclear missile. Aircraft fired the nuclear weapon as the "John Shot" of Operation Plumb Bob, 19 July 1959

The 432d Fighter-Interceptor Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit. Its last assignment was with the Air Defense Command 475th Fighter Group stationed at Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport, Minnesota. It was inactivated on 2 January 1958.

History[]

Combat in Southwest Pacific and Western Pacific, 12 August 1943 – 21 July 1945. Occupation duty (Korea and Japan), 1945–1949. Air Defense of Upper Midwest, 1952–1958.

Lineage[]

  • Activated on 14 May 1943 by special authority prior to constitution as 432d Fighter Squadron on 15 May 1943
Inactivated on 1 April 1949
  • Redesignated 432d Fighter-Interceptor Squadron on 10 October 1952
Activated on December 1952
Inactivated on 2 January 1958.

Assignments[]

475th Fighter Group, 14 May 1943 – 1 April 1949
31st Air Division, 1 December 1952
520th Air Defense Group, 16 February 1953
475th Fighter Group, 18 August 1955 – 2 January 1958.

Stations[]

  • Charters Towers, Australia, 14 May 1943
  • RAAF Base Amberley, Australia, 11 June 1943
  • Dobodura Airfield Complex, New Guinea, 14 August 1943
Operated from Port Moresby Airfield Complex, New Guinea, 12 August – 1 September 1943
  • Nadzab Airfield Complex, New Guinea, 25 March 1944
  • Hollandia Airfield Complex, New Guinea, 15 May 1944
  • Mokmer Airfield, Biak, Netherlands East Indies, 12 July 1944
  • Dulag Airfield, Leyte, 2 November 1944
Detachment operated from San Jose, Mindoro, 5 February – 2 March 1945
  • Clark Field, Luzon, 27 February 1945
  • Lingayen Airfield, Luzon, 19 April 1945
  • Ie Shima Airfield, Okinawa, 8 August 1945
  • Kimpo AB, Korea, 28 September 1945
  • Itazuke AB, Japan, 28 August 1948
  • Ashiya AB, Japan, 25 March – 1 April 1949
  • Truax Field, Wisconsin, 10 October 1952
  • Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport, Minnesota, 18 August 1955 – 2 January 1958

Aircraft[]

References[]

PD-icon This article incorporates public domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency website http://www.afhra.af.mil/.

  • A Handbook of Aerospace Defense Organization 1946 - 1980, by Lloyd H. Cornett and Mildred W. Johnson, Office of History, Aerospace Defense Center, Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado
  • Maurer, Maurer. Combat Squadrons of the Air Force: World War II. Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama: Office of Air Force History, 1982.
  • USAF Aerospace Defense Command publication, The Interceptor, January 1979 (Volume 21, Number 1).
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