432d Fighter-Interceptor Squadron

432d Fighter-Interceptor Squadron
North American F-86D-40-NA Sabres 520th Air Defense Group, Truax Field, Wisconsin, Nov 1953 Identified Aircraft: 52-3622, 52-3717
Active	1943–1958
Country	United States
Branch	United States Air Force
Type	Fighter-Interceptor
Commanders
Notable commanders	Captain (later Colonel) John S. Loisel
Insignia
Emblem of the 432d Fighter-Interceptor Squadron	125px

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

File:432d FIS F-89H.jpg

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

• 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

• Fifth Air Force

475th Fighter Group, 14 May 1943 – 1 April 1949

• Air Defense Command

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

• P-38 Lightning, 1943–1946
• P-51 Mustang, 1946–1949
• F-86D Sabre Interceptor, 1952–1955
• F-89D Scorpion, 1955–1956
• F-89H Scorpion, 1956–1957

References

 This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the Air Force Historical Research Agency.

• 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).