The 87th Fighter Wing 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

XXII Tactical Air Command The XXII Tactical Air Command is an inactive United States Air Force unit. Its last assignment was with Twelfth Air Force, at Pomigliano Airfield, Italy, where it was inactivated on 4 October 1945. The command was formed in the southeast Unite ...

, based at

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. It was inactivated on 11 October 1950.

History

Lineage

* Constituted as 87th Fighter Wing on 14 October 1943 : Activated on 25 October 1943 : Disbanded in Italy on 1 April 1945

Assignments

First Air Force The First Air Force (Air Forces Northern; 1 AF-AFNORTH) is a numbered air force of the United States Air Force Air Combat Command (ACC). It is headquartered at Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida. Its primary mission is the air defense of the Co ...

, 25 October – 15 December 1943 *

, 11 January 1944 – 1 April 1945

Stations

Mitchel Field Mitchell may refer to: People *Mitchell (surname) *Mitchell (given name) Places Australia * Mitchell, Australian Capital Territory, a light-industrial estate * Mitchell, New South Wales, a suburb of Bathurst * Mitchell, Northern Territory ...

, New York, 25 October – 15 December 1943 *

Nouvion Airfield Nouvion Airfield was a pre-war airport and World War II military airfield in Algeria, located about 5 km west of Camp Militaire d' El Ghomri in Mascara province; about 76 km east of Oran. History The facility was built in the 1930s as ...

, Algeria, 11 January 1944 *

Caserta Caserta () is the capital of the province of Caserta in the Campania region of Italy. It is an important agricultural, commercial, and industrial ''comune'' and city. Caserta is located on the edge of the Campanian plain at the foot of the Camp ...

(Naples),

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, February 1944 *

Bastia Bastia (, , , ; co, Bastìa ) is a commune in the department of Haute-Corse, Corsica, France. It is located in the northeast of the island of Corsica at the base of Cap Corse. It also has the second-highest population of any commune on the is ...

, Corsica, 28 March 1944 * Vescovato, Corsica, 9 May 1944 *

Furiani Furiani (; ) is a commune in the Haute-Corse department, on the island of Corsica, France. Population See also * Communes of the Haute-Corse department * Tour de Furiani * Railway stations in Corsica The railways in Corsica (part of Fra ...

, Corsica, 13 July 1944 *

, Italy, 22 September 1944 *

Florence Airfield Florence Airport, Peretola , it, Aeroporto di Firenze-Peretola and formally Amerigo Vespucci Airport, is the international airport of Florence, the capital of the Italian region of Tuscany. It is the second-busiest Tuscan airport in terms of p ...

, Italy, 25 December 1944 – 1 April 1945.

Components

* 57th Fighter Group: 23 April – 10 September 1944 * 79th Fighter Group: June-25 August 1944 *

86th Fighter Group Area codes 084 and 086 are Nigerian telephone area codes serving the cities of Port Harcourt and Ahoada in Rivers State. They fall under the Southeast Zone in the National Numbering Plan (NNP) restructured in 2003. When in Port Harcourt or Ahoa ...

: 9–15 September 1944

Operations

Formed at

, New York. Moved overseas to

Algeria ) , image_map = Algeria (centered orthographic projection).svg , map_caption = , image_map2 = , capital = Algiers , coordinates = , largest_city = capital , relig ...

, December 1943 – January 1944, and operated with

Twelfth Air Force The Twelfth Air Force (12 AF; Air Forces Southern, (AFSOUTH)) is a Numbered Air Force of the United States Air Force Air Combat Command (ACC). It is headquartered at Davis–Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona. The command is the air component to U ...

in the Mediterranean theater, primarily directing tactical fighter groups in

from April 1944 until the wing's groups were reassigned in September 1944 to XXII Tactical Air Command. Existed as a paper unit until inactivation in April 1945.

References

* Maurer, Maurer. Air Force Combat Units of World War II. Maxwell AFB, Alabama: Office of Air Force History, 1983. . {{USAAF 12th Air Force World War II 087 Military units and formations established in 1943 Military units and formations disestablished in 1945