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531st Tactical Fighter Squadron
531st Tactical Fighter Squadron F-100 Super Sabre[note 1]
Active
1941-1946; 1953-1958; 1958-1970
Country
United States
Branch
United States Air Force
Role
Fighter
Motto(s)
Strike and Return
Engagements
Pacific Ocean Theater[1] Vietnam War
Insignia
531 Tactical Fighter Sq emblem[note 2]
531st Fighter Squadron emblem[note 3][2]
58th Bombardment Squadron emblem
Military unit
The 531st Tactical Fighter Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit, last assigned to the 3rd Tactical Fighter Wing at Bien Hoa Air Base, South Vietnam. The squadron was inactivated on 31 July 1970.
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1952. The 21st Fighter-Bomber Wing was activated at George AFB on 1 January 1953 with three (72d, 416th and 531st) Fighter-Bomber squadrons, equipped with...
England AFB. Four tacticalfightersquadrons (90th, 416th, 510th, 531st)., with the 510th coming from Clark AB, RP and the 416th and 531st moving from Misawa...
bombardment squadron sometime during their active service. Today Bomb Squadrons are considered to be part of the Combat Air Force (CAF) along with fighter squadrons...
1971. The 355th TacticalFighterSquadron (355th TFS) in 1967 was a Regular Air Force squadron assigned to the 354th TacticalFighter Wing at Myrtle Beach...
August 1960 Alaskan Air Command, 1 October 1961 531st Aircraft Control and Warning Group (later 11th Tactical Control Group), 15 November 1977 – 1 November...
involved was the 1st Air and Air Defence Forces Command, including the 531st, 583rd, and 1258th Air Defence Regiments, the 331st and 332nd Radio-Technical...
Units 18th FighterSquadron, 20 June 1946 – 15 August 1946 46th Reconnaissance Squadron, 23 August 1946 - 13 October 1947 65th FighterSquadron, 15 August...
base squadrons and several other responsibilities. The 21 CW picked up a new fighter unit on 1 October 1977 when the 18th TacticalFighterSquadron (F-4Es)...
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