The 432d Fighter-Interceptor Squadron is an inactive

United States Air Force The United States Air Force (USAF) is the air service branch of the United States Armed Forces, and is one of the eight uniformed services of the United States. Originally created on 1 August 1907, as a part of the United States Army Signal ...

unit. Its last assignment was with the 475th Fighter Group at Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport, Minnesota, where it was inactivated on 2 January 1958.

History

World War II and Army of Occupation

Combat in Southwest Pacific and Western Pacific, 12 August 1943 – 21 July 1945. Occupation duty (Korea and Japan), 1945–1949.

Air defense operations

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 1 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 Charters Towers is a rural town in the Charters Towers Region, Queensland, Australia. It is by road south-west from Townsville on the Flinders Highway. During the last quarter of the 19th century, the town boomed as the rich gold deposits under ...

, Australia, 14 May 1943 *

RAAF Base Amberley RAAF Base Amberley is a Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) military airbase located southwest of Ipswich, Queensland in Australia and southwest of Brisbane CBD. It is currently home to No. 1 Squadron (operating the F/A-18F Super Hornet), N ...

, Australia, 11 June 1943 * Dobodura Airfield Complex, New Guinea, 14 August 1943 : Operated from

Port Moresby Airfield Complex The Port Moresby Airfield Complex was a World War II military airfield complex, built near Port Moresby in the Territory of Papua and New Guinea. It was used during the Battle of New Guinea as a base of Allied air operations primarily in 1942 an ...

, New Guinea, 12 August – 1 September 1943 *

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, New Guinea, 25 March 1944 *

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, New Guinea, 15 May 1944 *

Mokmer Airfield Frans Kaisiepo International Airport ( id, Bandar Udara Internasional Frans Kaisiepo) , is an airport in Biak, Papua, Indonesia. It is also known as Mokmer Airport. The airport is named after Frans Kaisiepo (1921–1979), the fourth Governor of ...

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, Netherlands East Indies, 12 July 1944 *

Dulag Airfield Dulag Airfield is a World War II airfield located near Dulag in the province of Leyte, Philippines. It was closed after the war. History The airfield was built by the Japanese during the Occupation of the Philippines in 1943. Seized by the Americ ...

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, 2 November 1944 : Detachment operated from San Jose,

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, Netherlands East Indies, 5 February – 2 March 1945 * Clark Field,

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, Philippines, 27 February 1945 * Lingayen Airfield, Luzon, Philippines, 19 April 1945 *

Ie Shima Airfield is a training facility, managed by the United States Marine Corps and a former World War II airfield complex on Ie Shima, an island located off the northwest coast of Okinawa Island in the East China Sea. The airfield as such was inactivated ...

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, 8 August 1945 *

Kimpo Air Base Gimpo International Airport (), commonly known as Gimpo Airport , formerly rendered in English as Kimpo International Airport, is located in the far western end of Seoul, some west of the Central District of Seoul. Gimpo was the main interna ...

, Korea, 28 September 1945 * Itazuke Air Base, Japan, 28 August 1948 * Ashiya Air Base, 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

Lockheed P-38 Lightning The Lockheed P-38 Lightning is an American single-seat, twin piston-engined fighter aircraft that was used during World War II. Developed for the United States Army Air Corps by the Lockheed Corporation, the P-38 incorporated a distinctive twi ...

, 1943–1946 *

North American P-51 Mustang The North American Aviation P-51 Mustang is an American long-range, single-seat fighter aircraft, fighter and fighter-bomber used during World War II and the Korean War, among other conflicts. The Mustang was designed in April 1940 by a team ...

, 1946–1949 * North American F-86D Sabre, 1952–1955 *

Northrop F-89D Scorpion The Northrop F-89 Scorpion was an American all-weather, twin-engined interceptor aircraft built during the 1950s, the first jet-powered aircraft designed for that role from the outset to enter service. Though its straight wings limited its per ...

, 1955–1956 * Northrop F-89H Scorpion, 1956–1957

References

Notes

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External links

{{Aerospace Defense Command, state=collapsed Fighter squadrons of the United States Air Force Aerospace Defense Command units